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New drag season for Vancouver Island racer

New drag season for Vancouver Island racer

The Schulte Racing Team (SRT) is ready for the 2017 drag racing season.

  • May 11, 2017
New drag season for Vancouver Island racer

Fast Bytes

Quick sports updates from the South Cariboo area.

  • May 11, 2017

Fast Bytes

Quick news updates from the South Cariboo area.

  • May 11, 2017
A loaded handgun and suspected drugs were seized from a limousine last week in Langford. The limousine’s occupants included six full-patch Hells Angels members. Photo courtesy of West Shore RCMP

Hells Angels arrested in Langford after traffic stop yields handgun, suspected drugs

Six full-patch members, four associates released on promise to appear in court in August

  • May 11, 2017
A loaded handgun and suspected drugs were seized from a limousine last week in Langford. The limousine’s occupants included six full-patch Hells Angels members. Photo courtesy of West Shore RCMP
On Saturday, May 13 Fraser Valley Comedy presents the one and only Byron Bertram. (Submitted photo)

Three shows this month for Fraser Valley Comedy in Chilliwack

Fraser Valley Comedy will be hosting three evenings of laughs for the month of May

  • May 11, 2017
On Saturday, May 13 Fraser Valley Comedy presents the one and only Byron Bertram. (Submitted photo)

Get your geek on for Take a Hike team trivia night

The West Kootenay Take a Hike program is hosting trivia night at the Trail Legion.

  • May 11, 2017
SUBMITTED PHOTO                                 Hope’s Team F.I.T. entry in the Vancouver Sun Run had a good boost in numbers from last year. This was the tenth consecutive year of the group taking part in the annual 10-km event.

Hope families flourish at Sun Run

Hope runners kept it up for the tenth year.

  • May 11, 2017
SUBMITTED PHOTO                                 Hope’s Team F.I.T. entry in the Vancouver Sun Run had a good boost in numbers from last year. This was the tenth consecutive year of the group taking part in the annual 10-km event.
Grant Iles played for the Creston Valley Thunder Cats of the KIJHL last season and arrives to the Selkirk College Saints with a reputation for hard work and a team-first attitude. (Selkrik College)

Selkirk College Saints keep focus on work ethic

A culture of hard work has contributed to the massive success for the Selkirk College Saints.

  • May 11, 2017
Grant Iles played for the Creston Valley Thunder Cats of the KIJHL last season and arrives to the Selkirk College Saints with a reputation for hard work and a team-first attitude. (Selkrik College)
A water quality advisory is in place in Grindrod. (photo submitted)

Water quality advisory for Grindrod

The Regional District of North Okanagan has issued a water quality advisory for the Grindrod water utility.

  • May 11, 2017
A water quality advisory is in place in Grindrod. (photo submitted)

Annual BC Hydro siren tests along Puntledge River May 12

With the warmer weather approaching, people will start to enter the Puntledge River to cool off. Tubing is the most common river activity. It’s a wonderful river system and a community asset, though people should keep in mind it’s a hydroelectric operated system where river flows may change quickly.

  • May 11, 2017
Coralee Oakes retains her seat in Cariboo North

Coralee Oakes retains her seat in Cariboo North

Close race provincially, minority government a possibility

  • May 11, 2017
Coralee Oakes retains her seat in Cariboo North
Nestle Waters Canada has donated more than 2,000 cases of bottled water to Enderby. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Enderby taps into donation

Nestle Waters Canada has donated more than 2,000 cases of bottled water to Enderby

  • May 11, 2017
Nestle Waters Canada has donated more than 2,000 cases of bottled water to Enderby. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Gang Green gains ground

Gang Green gains ground

The noted sage Kermit the Frog once said, “It’s not easy being green.”

  • May 11, 2017
Gang Green gains ground
Roses and Rotten Tomatoes (May 12, 2017)

Roses and Rotten Tomatoes (May 12, 2017)

A weekly collection of compliments and complaints sent in by readers

  • May 11, 2017
Roses and Rotten Tomatoes (May 12, 2017)

Celebration Singers honour Mooney

Who was that young man that strode into the music portable at Courtenay Elementary 20 years ago?

  • May 11, 2017
Financial assistance available for Kootenay flooding victims

Financial assistance available for Kootenay flooding victims

Disaster Financial Assistance is available to eligible British Columbians in the Kootenay region.

  • May 11, 2017
Financial assistance available for Kootenay flooding victims

Never giving up the fight

Boxer turned mental health worker shares struggle

  • May 11, 2017

Parksville Fire Department to Celebrate 75th Anniversary

The Parksville Volunteer Fire Department turns 75 in 2017 and the department will throw its own birthday party.

  • May 11, 2017

Campbell River Golf & Country Club announces 2018 course opening

Things are moving fast at the Campbell River Golf &Country Club.

  • May 11, 2017
EDITORIAL: MLA-elect Scott Fraser inches closer to a position of power

EDITORIAL: MLA-elect Scott Fraser inches closer to a position of power

Incumbent MLA Scott Fraser’s reign of the Mid-Island continues as the BC NDP candidate won convincingly in the newly-formed Mid Island-Pacific Rim riding.

  • May 11, 2017
EDITORIAL: MLA-elect Scott Fraser inches closer to a position of power