Author Archives: Bill Nation

Lottery officials say someone has won the record 1.6-billion-dollar jackpot for America's multi-state Mega Millions lottery. Mega Millions officials say a ticket purchased somewhere in South Carolina ...

Green Party leader Andrew Weaver is urging people to vote yes as the ballots are sent out in the provincewide referendum for a proposed new voting system. Voters are being asked whether they want to k...

The federal government says it will help develop measures to support the recovery of B-C's endangered southern resident killer whales. Terry Beech, parliamentary secretary to the transportation minist...

Three relatively strong earthquakes were recorded Sunday night in the Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.6 magnitude quake about 260 kilometres west of Tofino,...

City of Courtenay will soon have a new mayor. Bob Wells beat out incumbent Larry Jangula to capture the city's top job in Saturday's election. The council will consist of Willian-Coe Hamilton, Melanie...

The B-C government's first day as a marijuana retailer went as the government had hoped. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says thousands of people went to the online site after midnight to purcha...

Canada is now one of the few countries in the world to regulate and legalize recreational marijuana, and it's the largest nation with a national marketplace for legal pot. And historic sales have alre...

B-C's first and only retail cannabis store will be open at 10 a. m. on Wednesday and have 24 cannabis consultants standing by to serve. The Attorney General's Ministry says in a news release that the ...

A strike is looming at Canada Post. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it has given five-days' strike notice to Canada Post that thousands of workers could walk off the job on Monday in rotatin...

R-C-M-P is seeking the public's help in identifying woman who allegedly stole a purse from a cart at a business on the 2800 block of Cliffe Avenue in Courtenay. The woman is described as 30 to 40 year...