Business

The B.C. government has started engineering work to widen sections of the main route from Alberta into northeast B.C., the first step to a four-lane industrial route from the provincial border to Fort St. John.

Black Press, British Columbia's largest publisher of community newspapers and websites, has announced the purchase of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman and the Kimberley Daily Bulletin from Don Kendall.

Silent Mountain Bike Courier Services has extended its operation with a lunch delivery component.

The Government of Canada is once again accepting applications from local businesses to help kick-start their innovative ideas by moving their products and services from the lab to the marketplace.

Medical exercise specialist and The Core Exercise Studio owner Mia Sutherland has been chosen as an ambassador for Montreal clothing company Lole Athletic Wear.

Millie Miller is the first graduate from Del Rio Academy of Hair and Esthetics' Courtenay location.

Whenever a big box store moves into town, conversations within the business community inevitably revolve around the need to set yourself apart. It is relatively easy to say be unique, be different, but how do you go about doing that in a market that seems saturated with similar products or services.

Visualize 50 ecstatic campers, staff and volunteers tubing the Puntledge River as one huge flotilla. Catch a glimpse of campers in kayaks and canoes riding the same river on an outgoing tide to the ocean. Witness the sheer excitement of these kids as they prepare to surf the waves at Tofino or skim board the tidal pools at Saratoga Beach.

For anyone driving through Courtenay, a bright red and white awning is the latest attraction at 2440 Cliffe Ave. That awning marks the new location for UB Diving, relocated recently from downtown to across from Tim Hortons.

From knickerbockers to bell bottoms and everything in between, Rickson's Menswear has been through many men's fashion trends. But after 94 years of business, the Fifth Street store in Courtenay is closing its doors.