Category Archives: Local News
Highway 4 To Remain Closed
A key highway on Vancouver Island that has been cut by wildfire activity will remain shut for at least another 10 days and may not be fully open until mid-July, dealing a blow to communities already f...
Jun 14, 2023 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / CC
BC Drug Crisis
B-C's representative for children and youth says her office hasn't seen any indication that youth are using drugs ``diverted'' from the safe supply program. Jennifer Charlesworth's remarks come after ...
Jun 06, 2023 frankieleon / CC
BC Wildfires
The B-C Wildfire Service says the intensity and size of the Donnie Creek wildfire in northeastern B-C is too dangerous to put firefighters in a position where they are attacking it directly. Informati...
Jun 06, 2023 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / CC
OBIT-Tina Turner
The Queen of Rock n' Roll has died. Tina Turner was 83. The chart-topper was known for her trademark growling contralto, her iconic wigs and quick-stepping legs. After escaping her marriage to Ike Tur...
May 25, 2023 Generation Bass / CC
Fire Destroys Comox Gas Station
The Esso gas station on Anderton Road in Comox has been destroyed by fire. Comox Fire Rescue Chief Gord Schreiner says the Saturday night blaze began as a car fire that spread to the main building. Sc...
May 21, 2023
WestJet-Pilots Deal
A new deal has been struck between WestJet and its pilots union, avoiding a holiday weekend work stoppage. The agreement-in-principle came just ahead of a planned early Friday morning walkout by the A...
May 19, 2023 David Ackerman / CC
Record Hot Temperatures
The Comox Valley and Campbell River broke historical temperature records over the weekend as hot weather blanketed much of B-C . In Campbell Rver, the temperature soared to 29 degrees on Saturday, bre...
May 15, 2023 John Seb Barber / CC
BC Housing Forensic Audit
The British Columbia government is restricting new funding to a major non-profit housing provider after an independent review found mismanagement by a former top executive atthe province's housing cor...
May 09, 2023 BC NDP / CC
OBIT-Gordon Lightfoot
Legendary Canadian folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at age 84. Victoria Lord, a representative for the family, says the musician behind classic Canadian ballads ``Early Morning Rain'' ...
May 02, 2023 Blake Handley / CC
Residential School Unmarked Graves
The chief of the shishalh First Nation says they've long known the truth of missing children at the former St. Augustine's residential school and a search for graves to was conducted to show the littl...
Apr 21, 2023
