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Second cohort for spring semester will be the last one coming this school year

Minister responds no one will be required to repay CERB at this time

Village updates website while launching new economic development site soon

Courtenay-Comox MLA Ronna-Rae Leonard announced funding for addictions treatment and recovery services that will provide a boost for providers and offer people struggling with addictions a measurel of support during COVID-19.

Plan is for memorandum of understanding to cover issues such as funding, events

The Government of B.C. is providing $10.4 million for a new, 95-seat Hornby Island Community School, replacing the previous building that was lost in a fire in August 2018.

Tired of commuting from the Lower Mainland to her job in northern Vancouver Island, Kaitlin Guitard became a Comox resident last year. The water quality technician works eight days on, six days off at a Mowi smolt site in the Broughton Archipelago. Though she had studied agriculture, Guitard had worked with land-based production before switching careers in 2019.

Costs for the cleanup of the site have reached more than $1 million

At its first meeting of 2021, the Comox Valley Regional District board adopted a statement of reconciliation that will continue to guide the CVRD’s work with Indigenous peoples, including First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.

Vaccine delivery delays keeping chief medical health officer awake at night