Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

Five-year financial plan spells out fiscal direction

Efforts are being made to communicate; students connect with teachers from home

Increases should be permanent, says Rachel Blaney

Annual ceremony scaled back due to COVID-19 pandemic

Cindy Elliott offers help with online submissions for benefits

Residents with illness symptoms can be assessed

Signage will be advising about local traffic only; highway from and to Powell river unaffected

Adjustment proposed due to COVID-19 pandemic

While we lament many of the changes, and the list is long during this unique time in our history, there may yet be a few new things we’re also smiling about.

Workers at a second poultry processing facility in B.C. have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Thursday. Two workers at Superior Poultry Processors Ltd. in Coquitlam have the virus, she said.