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Elections BC releases results Elections BC’s area-by-area breakdown of the May 9 provincial election in the Powell River-Sunshine Coast riding shows elected New Democrat Party MLA Nicholas Simons led or tied in all but eight of 72 polling areas.

Staff to assess permits and creating food-truck hub at old barge terminal

Provincial ministry identifies more than 30 trees to be left along widely used path

Parks department puts forward recommendations for Willingdon Beach Campground

Regional district and conservation office explore avenues to stop prohibited activity

Mayor bestows awards Tla’amin Nation elder Elsie Paul, former chief councillor Roy Francis and hegus Clint Williams were awarded with City of Powell River’s Freedom of the City award during Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy’s Canada 1

Awards trunk main replacement Murphy Pipeline Contractors has been awarded an approximately $3.1-million contract to replace City of Powell River’s trunk water main, the pipe that supplies water to the city’s reservoir in Cranberry.

The mother of one of the two young men shot in Lund on Saturday, June 17, said her son Dylan Buckle and his friend Braxton Leask were "like brothers.

RCMP has named 19-year-old Jason Timothy Foulds of Powell River as the suspect in a shooting in Lund that left two other young men dead.

Entire community in shock after loss of two young men