No ferry increase
BC Ferries recently announced that travellers will not be paying an expected 1.9 per cent fare increase this spring.
On April 1, fares will increase by the planned 1.9 per cent, but the ferry corporation will begin giving a discount of 1.9 per cent to its customers, effectively cancelling out the increase.
“For the first time in 13 years, the average fares will remain effectively unchanged as the company starts the new fiscal year on April 1,” the company stated in a media release.
According to the company, the declining cost for diesel, coupled with the fact that it has locked in the price of fuel, made the rebate possible.
“Given the current price of fuel on world markets, we expect to maintain a fuel rebate for the foreseeable future,” stated Dennis Dodo, BC Ferries chief financial officer.
Last September, the province’s independent ferry commission signed off on a series of annual 1.9 per cent price increases for BC Ferries from 2016 through 2020.
Bliss Landing deaths
RCMP Vancouver Island Major Crime Unit investigators have wrapped up an investigation into the deaths of two adults, a male and female, found in their summer home at Bliss Landing on September 30, 2015, concluding it was a murder-suicide.
“Our investigation is complete and the evidence collected at the scene leads us to believe the incident was a murder-suicide,” said Powell River RCMP staff sergeant Rod Wiebe.
Wiebe said police were unable to release any other details on the investigation.
The names of the deceased have yet to be released by BC Coroners Service.
