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Local residents can hear about the Vancouver Island Health Authority’s proposal to build new hospitals in the Comox Valley and Campbell River at the end of this month.

Committee members will have their work cut out choosing recipients of Comox Valley Community Awards due to the large number of nominations.

Christy Clark spent five years in opposition trying to chase the NDP out of power.

Union Bay Improvement District meetings are no longer open to the public, as announced by UBID chair Alan de Jersey following an apparently raucous board meeting last month.

A subdivision proposal that would impact a unique Garry oak grove behind Georges P. Vanier Secondary School could be headed back to Square One.

Raising concerns about what could be handed down from on high if the process goes to binding arbitration, Courtenay council has endorsed the latest version of the Regional Growth Strategy.

Calling the Fight HST movement a fight to stand up for democracy, former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm told a crowd of about 50 supporters Saturday night, “We’re winning.

A benevolent society formed while the Elk Falls mill operated in Campbell River has donated $4,000 to the Dawn to Dawn Care-A-Van program, a mobile health-care unit that supports homeless and at-risk individuals in the Comox Valley.

The latest figures from BC Assessment indicate the value of houses in the Comox Valley have increased over the course of the past year, the total value exceeding $5 billion. Last year was $4.975 billion.