The Comox Valley Regional District purchased three lots in the 800 block of Cliffe Avenue in Courtenay in 2010 for the purpose of housing a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week emergency shelter for the homeless.

Sage Hills is still planning to forge ahead with building a state-of-the-art, sustainable community in the Comox Valley, once the Regional Growth Strategy process is finalized.

Feeling brave?

Mount Washington Alpine Resort has lots of snow, and they are welcoming lots of skiers and snowboarders.

It has been a year of change and turbulence on many fronts in the outdoors. We had Olympic-style fisheries on some salmon runs and serious crashes on other fronts. As always, the outdoor venture is a continuous series of glorious successes and less splendid results that make for never-ending challenges in the world of recreational fishing and hunting.

If I could give all of you one gift this holiday season, it would be a year鈥檚 worth of safe driving.

Norovirus outbreaks are limiting visiting at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and Victoria General Hospital.

Two regional district parks have suffered damage to trails due to recent storm and flood events.

Members of the Courtenay and District Fish and Game Protective Association will be attending their first general meeting of 2011 Jan. 3 at 7:30 p.m. with earnest.

Mount Washington Alpine Resort is basking in an early-season bliss in the wake of record snowfalls.