If you care at all about the plight of hungry people in the Comox Valley, carefully examine the inserts in Wednesday's Comox Valley Record.

Courtenay finished 42nd among 70 B.C. communities listed by BC Hydro as saving power during Earth Hour recently.

Faster and more extensive Internet service is coming to the Comox Valley.

Christmas 2010 was not a merry one for Ken McEachnie. Rather than spending quality time with his two children, the single father bailed water from the basement of his Astra Road property near Kin Beach Park. As he had done in November 2009.

A proposed 32-unit multi-residential project on Dingwall Road has nearby residents concerned about too much density and increased traffic. Six people spoke against the proposed Dingwall Project during a public hearing at Monday's Courtenay council meeting.

There were walks, talks, displays and even artwork surrounding the K'ómox Band Hall on Saturday, as Project Watershed and the Estuary Working Group celebrated the Day of the Estuary.

The Norovirus outbreak at St. Joseph's General Hospital has been declared over, as of Monday. Nine patients on the hospital's third floor — the medical-surgical floor — had the symptoms of Norovirus, an infectious gastrointestinal virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea, and visiting was limited last week after the outbreak was discovered.

The Union Bay Improvement District has so far spent upwards of $20,000 in a civil suit against Union Bay resident Mary Reynolds, whom the district and other plaintiffs are suing for alleged defamatory material that appeared on her blog All Things Union Bay and on her vehicle.