Construction has started on a pair of four-storey apartment buildings at 2600 Mission Rd., next to the North Island Hospital (Comox Valley) in Courtenay. The two buildings will contain a combined 94 units, consisting of 16 three-bedrooms, 46 two-bedrooms and 32 one-bedrooms.
Over 40 years of working on boom boats, Wes Seeley has seen many spectacular moments involving eagles.
Construction of a Holiday Inn Express is being proposed at the corner of Hunt and Ryan roads, opposite of Chances Casino, in Courtenay.
Thea VanHerwaarden of the Comox Valley is among 12 returning cooks vying for the title of MasterChef Canada, which kicks off another season on Valentine's Day.
Since 2016, Comox Valley taxpayers have been paying into a Homelessness Supports Service that has helped fund 78 affordable housing units. These include single detached homes, condos, supportive housing and capital improvements to the Connect Warming Centre in Courtenay.
A group of trades people organized a Sunday fundraiser in the Comox Valley to provide a bit of assistance to a fellow worker and his wife, whose young child has muscular dystrophy.
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.
A Comox Valley couple is urging the Recreation Commission to re-open the Aquatic Centre for lane swimming and rehab.
In the fall, the City of Courtenay received a $4.149 million 'COVID-19 Safe Restart Grant' to assist with increased operating costs and lower revenue as a result of the pandemic. The money cannot be used to reduce 2021 taxes.
The number of assaults increased significantly in Courtenay from 2019 to 2020, according to the number of calls for police service. The number of reported assaults jumped from 302 in 2019 to 364 in 2020.
Cumberland resident Tom Lennox has been running a minimum of five kilometres every single day for nearly a year straight.
Every February for the past three decades, World Community has hosted a film festival of documentaries from all corners of the world that focus on emerging human development issues.
The Wachiay Friendship Centre hopes to turn its parking lot at 17th and McPhee into a five-storey wood frame building with 40 living units. Pending the outcome of an application to BC Housing, the suites will be studio and one-bedroom units.
If a 6th Street multi-use bridge ever comes into fruition, the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition hopes it will be widened a little further than what's being proposed.
In a Monday presentation to Courtenay council, the LUSH Valley Food Action Society requested $100,000 to help restart the Good Food Box Program for Vulnerable Citizens. The group hopes the money could be provided through government's Safe Restart funding program.
Courtenay council adopted a bylaw to allow Habitat for Humanity to construct 12 homes at 1375 Piercy Ave. The project will consist of a trio of four-unit townhomes.
A working group has appealed to rural directors to help bring high-speed fibre optic internet infrastructure to Hornby and Denman islands, which fall within Area A of the Comox Valley Regional District.
The Comox Valley Regional District board approved a 3,000-hour transit service expansion to address the impacts of upcoming work to rehabilitate the 5th Street Bridge, and for increased frequency on route number one.
The B.C. Forest Ministry is planning an aerial spray treatment this spring in Courtenay in an effort to eradicate a gypsy moth population.
Area A director Daniel Arbour was acclaimed chair of the Comox Valley Recreation Commission, retaining the position he held over the past year, while Comox director Maureen Swift was elected vice-chair at the inaugural commission meeting Tuesday.
