Connie Jordison

About nine percent of the Sunshine Coast’s coastline has 'high vulnerability' to erosion and seven percent of properties have 'flooding hazards at current sea levels', according to the SCRD's Coastal Flood Mapping project.

Two battery electric buses (BEB) are to be in Sunshine Coast Transit’s (SCT) fleet early next year and serving customers by summer 2026, pending endorsement of recommendations by the SCRD board.

Decisions endorsed by the Sunshine Coast Regional District board on July 24 ; the last scheduled board meeting until Sept. 11.

Bringing provincial health minister Josie Osborne to the Coast to talk with the community about those two1980’s vintage vacated structures is something Sechelt area director and District of Sechelt councillor Darren Inkster said he had been working on.

On June 30, a number of homes in the multi-family development at 5711 Ebbtide Ave. in Sechelt were evacuated for 30 to 45 minutes, out of what the Sechelt Fire Department called “an abundance of caution” related to a reported natural gas leak.

Effective Friday, July 11, and until further notice, the Sunshine Coast Regional District Chapman, Soames, Granthams, South Pender Harbour and Eastbourne water systems will move to Stage 2 water conservation measures. North Pender and the Town of Gibsons remain at Stage 1.

Sunshine Coast Regional District says the recently completed contact water pond relocation appears to have extended Sechelt landfill’s lifespan to 2032. That project was envisioned to add four years of operating space, taking the landfill’s life to 2030, but the result is an estimated six years of capacity stretch.

The Food Waste Drop-off Pilot Program at the Pender Harbour Transfer Station, is back effective immediately, according to June 23 news release from the Sunshine Coast Regional District. The service which launched in 2022 was temporarily suspended on May 1.

According to the Environmental Sensitivity Coalition of Canada, about a third of the country’s population “has self-identified as having negative health reactions to fragranced products.”

March real estate statistics for Sunshine Coast

A floating charge barge at Gibsons Harbour could power a new era of marine electrification in B.C, including the proposed Howe Sound passenger ferry service..

Guilty pleas were entered at provincial court in Sechelt on Jan. 9 and a conditional sentence of 90 days, to be served in the community, was handed to Robin Tak, for vandalizing the Friendship Park washroom mural and trying to break into 22 Taphouse.

Clients served by the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s North and South Pender water systems are to receive a mock volumetric billing along with their regular water rate invoice next spring.

Recommendations on a housing assessment, variance permits and fees changes made at SCRD committee.

Users on eight of the 15 wastewater systems owned by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) are proposed to see increased user or frontage fees in 2025.

Eleven years and going strong – with strength needed, as this year’s rendition of the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s (SCRD) Backroad Trash Bash collected 3880 kilograms of illegally dumped waste. The event took place on Sept.

Sechelt-based family doctor Paul Dhillon appointed to the top position with the medical team with the seventh Invictus Games, to be held in Vancouver and Whistler Feb. 8 to 16, 2025.

There will an investigation into the presence of Northern red-legged frog and their breeding habitat in the Mount Elphinstone area.

The event is slated to start at 6:30 p.m. and will be jointly hosted by the SCRD and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).

No changes are proposed to the curbside service nor the garbage or food waste container requirements.