Category Archives: Local News
Comox Valley Boil Water Advisory
The Comox Valley Regional District, in conjunction with Island Health, has issued a boil water notice effective immediately. Due to intense snow and rainfall, turbidity levels have risen in both Comox...
Jan 04, 2021 Scott Akerman / CC
COVID-Restaurant Delivery Fee Cap
British Columbia's public safety minister has announced a temporary fee cap of 15 per cent charged to restaurants by food delivery companies as part of a plan to help the struggling hospitality indust...
Dec 23, 2020
COVID-BC Tourism Funding
The British Columbia government has added 55 million dollars to a fund to help tourism businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourism Minister Melanie Mark says the additional cash follow...
Dec 23, 2020
COVID-19 Vaccines Rolled Out Across B-C
British Columbia's top doctor says every regional health authority has received doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Bonnie Henry says vaccine deliveries last week were concentrated in t...
Dec 22, 2020
Comox Valley man charged in child pornography investigation
A Comox Valley man has been arrested and charged for accessing, distributing, and possessing child pornography following an investigation that was initiated in September 2018 by the British Columbia I...
Dec 16, 2020
ICBC Seeking Insurance reduction
Solicitor General Mike Farnworth says I-C-B-C is asking for the largest decrease in basic auto insurance premiums in 40 years. Farnworth says the public auto insurer is asking the B-C Utilities Commis...
Dec 15, 2020
COVID-19 vaccinations begin in British Columbia
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in British Columbia and will start to be administered on Tuesday. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the vaccine's arrival is ``moment...
Dec 14, 2020
BC COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
British Columbia's top doctor says health-care workers in long-term care facilities and intensive care units will be the first to be immunized against COVID-19 with the Pfizer vaccine starting next we...
Dec 10, 2020
BC COVID-19 Restrictions Extended
B-C's COVID-19 restrictions have been extended to Jan. 8 as the province continues to experience high levels of transmission and community spread of the virus. Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health ...
Dec 08, 2020
BC Legislature Throne Speech
The newly re-elected N-D-P government says it will strive to ensure that people work together to fight the second wave of COVID-19 and to mount a strong economic recovery. In a throne speech read by L...
Dec 08, 2020
