Author Archives: Bill Nation

B-C Ferries is building new passenger waiting rooms at the terminals on Denman and Hornby islands. Ferries Darin Guenette says construction is in the early stages. He says once they're done, the new f...

An independent policy think tank says there's no reason why B-C should have such a high poverty rate. Seth Klein with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the poverty rate is 13.2 per cent...

A former Courtenay city councilor captured the N-D-P nomination in the Courtenay-Comox riding this past weekend. Ronna-Rae Leonard plans to advocate for families, seniors and the environment. B-C vote...

R-C-M-P are looking for the owner of a 12-meter trawler that was intentionally run around north of Powell River. Three men were taken to hospital and one man was arrested after the vessel sank in a ma...

B-C Centre for Disease Control is investigating following an outbreak of illness associated with consuming undercooked oysters. Dr. Eleni Galanis says more than 70 cases of illness have been reported ...

A record number of passengers made their way through the Comox Valley Airport in 2016. C-E-O Fred Bigelow says close to 369-thousand passengers travelled through the terminal last year -- a 5.1 per ce...

The B-C government says it is well on its way to increasing its agrifood and seafood sector revenues to 15 billion dollars a year by 2020. The province is reporting record revenues of 13 billion dolla...

R-C-M-P say an elderly Nanaimo woman has lost 100-thousand dollars in a notorious civil engineer online dating scam. Police say the woman signed up on Match.com soon after she was widowed and began ex...

B-C has given its blessing to the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Premier Christy Clark says all five conditions her government placed on the project have been met with a financial deal that...

First of three new vessels has arrived at the B-C Ferries facility in Richmond after a 50-day journey from Poland. Ferries Deborah Marshall says the Salish Orca arrived in B-C waters on Wednesday. Mar...