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Your change can make a difference in the well-being of three-year-old Owen who has cerebral palsy, a group of disorders affecting movement and muscle co-ordination.

A documentary highlighting the importance of the Courtenay River estuary will help Project Watershed in its bid to have the estuary named a National Historic Site.

There will be even more activity in local skies during the next week, as 19 Wing Comox hosts the CF-18 Demo Hornet.

With Jack Layton arriving in the Comox Valley today, the Vancouver Island North NDP candidate is praising her party’s plan to ensure that British Columbians will not be financially punished if they defeat the HST in June’s referendum.

Jean Ennis was in Las Vegas this winter she started to feel a cold coming on. Ennis has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD), and she recognized that she needed to see a doctor right away before she got a full-blown cold, which could make it so hard to breathe that she would end up in hospital.

Comox Valley students earned 24 medals in the recent Skills Canada regional competitions. Fifty local students travelled to North Island College in Campbell River to participate in the Skills Canada regional competitions with more than 100 of their peers.

Comox Valley RCMP have confirmed that a man in his twenties was seriously injured during an assault April 2 while walking with three friends after leaving a bar in Cumberland.

Courtenay council is taking some of the tax burden off business property owners in the city. Councillors voted Wednesday to move the commercial multiplier — the factor by which the commercial class tax rate is greater than the residential class rate — down from 3.1 to 2.9, which shifts the tax burden toward residential.

If they can bring their 24-acre property into the city of Courtenay, the Foundation Capital real estate syndication corporation hopes to create a large condominium and single-family development near the Little River ferry terminal.