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Blaney is also NDP Critic for Veterans Affairs

The City of Courtenay is discontinuing solid waste collection for multi-use four zone (MU-4) customers in apartment and condo complexes. The zoning also pertains to commercial/industrial.

Carin Bondar says the comment made during a Zoom meeting amounts to defamation

Confined to wheelchair, woman was twice left sitting in incontinence underwear for 20-plus hours

Twenty-four firefighters worked for more than six hours to extinguish fire on Selby Street

Cumberland council agreed to match a $30,000 grant application with a $30,000 expenditure for a live fire training facility project, to be located behind the new fire hall.

The City of Courtenay has paid tribute to an outstanding community leader, volunteer and friend of the city, Lawrence Burns, with the unveiling of a new sign at Lawrence Burns Park at a formal park dedication event Oct. 4.

Matthew Ellis, who is running for director in Area C (Puntledge-Black Creek) of the Comox Valley Regional District in the Oct. 15 election, is being taken to task on social media about a past comment the public has identified as being bigoted.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food will hold three information sessions next week (Oct. 12-14) for small-flock poultry owners on the island, including one in Merville.

After a wet four months until mid-July, it quickly transitioned into one of the driest and hottest extended periods to October on record for Vancouver Island hydroelectric watersheds. Water inflows into Comox Lake Reservoir dropped considerably and the reservoir level has continued to drop since mid-July.