Category Archives: Local News
OBIT-Sinead O'Connor
Singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor has died at 56. The Met Police said O'Connor was found unresponsive in a home in southeast London. They did not say how she died but said her death was not considered...
Jul 27, 2023 Fresh On The Net / CC
Federal Cabinet Shuffle
Half of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's newly shuffled cabinet members are women, and he has appointed seven rookie ministers. Two-thirds of portfolios switched hands this morning in a reset that sign...
Jul 26, 2023 Taylor Atkinson
Help for Farmers and Ranchers
The B-C Ministry of Agriculture will help struggling farmers and ranchers as wildfires and floods in Western Canada create extreme shortages in feed for animals. The ministry says a new access-to-feed...
Jul 26, 2023 Neil H / CC
OBIT-Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett, the eminent stylist and last of the great saloon singers whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as ``I Left My Heart In San Francisco'' graced...
Jul 21, 2023 marcen27 / CC
RCMP Looking For Thieves
R-C-M-P in Comox Valley are asking for help after more than 45-hundred dollars worth of goods were stolen from a local Canadian Tire on Canada Day. The Mounties say they're looking for three suspects ...
Jul 20, 2023 waferboard / CC
BC Ports Strike
Workers at B-C ports have stopped loading and unloading cargo shipments again. They've resumed their strike at about 30 B-C ports. Their union leaders announced they were rejecting the tentative contr...
Jul 19, 2023 Stuart Cunningham / CC
BC Wildfires
British Columbia's minister of emergency management says the province has already broken the record for the total area burned in a year. Bowinn Ma says officials are now eyeing the prospect of drought...
Jul 19, 2023 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / CC
Comox Valley Water Restrictions
The Comox Valley Water System will move to Stage 2 Water Restrictions beginning Saturday, July 1st in response to increasing drought conditions, high water demand, and strain on regional water infrast...
Jun 28, 2023 UBC Micrometeorology / CC
RCMP-Indecent Act
Just before 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 11, 2023, Comox Valley RCMP received a report of an indecent act in Ruth Masters Greenway on Powerhouse Road in Courtenay. An adult female reported to police that...
Jun 22, 2023
NDP-Volunteer Firefighters
The New Democrat member of Parliament for Courtenay-Alberni says the federal Liberal government must boost the tax credit given to volunteer firefighters or search and rescue workers. Gord Johns made ...
Jun 22, 2023
