Category Archives: Local News
CFB Comox Retrofits And Upgrades
The Department of National Defence says it's working to reduce it's carbon footprint by upgrading infrastructure at Canadian Forces Base Comox. The department announced it has awarded a 12.5 million d...
Dec 21, 2021 Richard Eriksson / CC
BC COVID-19 Restrictions
New COVID-19 restrictions ranging from audience capacities on large venues to the number of people able to attend indoor gatherings are in effect on Monday. The health measures are scheduled to last u...
Dec 20, 2021 sergio santos / CC
BC Seniors Abuse
B-C's seniors advocate is calling for a provincewide approach for reporting seniors abuse amid complaints that are ``significantly rising.'' Isobel Mackenzie says there is a clear five-year pattern of...
Dec 09, 2021 Ann / CC
Business Break In Suspect
Comox Valley RCMP are looking for assistance to identify the suspect who broke into a business in Buckley Bay. Just after one o'clock in the morning on November 19, 2021 frontline officers of the Como...
Dec 07, 2021
Snowfall Warnings
Snowfall warnings covered Vancouver Island and parts of B-C's south coast overnight, with the potential for wet flurries lasting into Monday afternoon. Environment Canada says much of the island could...
Dec 06, 2021 Nishant Khurana / CC
Trans Mountain Pipeline Back Running
The Trans Mountain pipeline has restarted following a three-week precautionary shutdown during a series of storms that battered B-C. The federal Crown corporation says the pipeline was safely restarte...
Dec 06, 2021 Maureen / CC
BC Vaccination Rate
B-C's COVID-19 vaccination rate for those five years and older has reached 85 per cent for the first shot and 81.8 per cent for the second dose. A statement from the Health Ministry says there have be...
Dec 03, 2021 Epjt Tours
Flooded BC Farms
Agriculture Minister Lana Popham says 628-thousand poultry, about 12-thousand hogs and 420 dairy cattle died in the widespread flooding last month. In an update, Popham says 110 beehives were also sub...
Dec 03, 2021 U.S. Department of Agriculture / CC
BC Has First Case of Omicron Variant
B-C has identified its first case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the affected person recently returned from Nigeria. Henry says 204 people who recentl...
Dec 01, 2021 sergio santos / CC
BC State of Emergency Extended
B-C has extended the state of emergency until December 14th to ensure emergency services have all the resources they need after flooding devastated the province earlier this month. It has also extende...
Nov 30, 2021 Tom Good / CC
