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Crews cleared the lane just before 3 p.m. Saturday

Almost 2,500 customers without power through Saturday morning

̨ÍåMMÂãÁÄÊÒ communities and conservation groups say that Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has bowed to industry by opening the herring fishery in the Salish Sea. The harvest rate has been set at 20 per cent.

Spray-painted expletives were found at Ḗcole au coeur de I’île

Council to bring forward resolutions to spring convention for Island communities

A former North Island Hospital employee says recyclables at the Comox Valley and Campbell River facilities are largely ending up in landfills.

Citing the lowest return of sockeye last year in recorded history, Gord Johns has vowed to do everything in his power to ensure Pacific wild salmon don’t go the way of Atlantic cod.

At its next meeting, Courtenay council will revisit the idea of including cantilevers in the 5th Street Bridge repairs.

WildSafeBC coordinator updates Village on successes and challenges

On Monday, North Island-Powell River MP Rachel Blaney hand delivered her office’s report — Chinook Public Fishery Restrictions: Impact on the federal riding of North Island–Powell River — to Bernadette Jordan, the new Minister for Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard. The report had been sent last June to the previous minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, but Blaney did not receive a reply before the election.