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Province seeks feedback from local governments

Loop road, audit and old dive shop are subjects of queries

Conservationists are concerned about a potential backlash against bats following a rare case in which a 21-year-old Parksville man died from rabies after a bat encounter. Mandy Kellner, co-ordinator of the B.C.

Input from 223,273 people was submitted to an online provincial government survey from June 24 to July 19 about the future of daylight time in B.C.

Firefighters arrive to find heavy smoke and a rapidly expanding blaze

This morning, the upper and lower sections of Hemlock Street were closed to through traffic as work started on the remediation of the Hemlock loop.

Annual increases are not sustainable, according to taxpayers

Former NDP MP Ray Skelly has died. Skelly, who died July 14 in Comox at the age of 78, was the MP for the ridings of Comox – Powell River and North Island – Powell River for 14 years between 1979 and 1993.

Adam Taylor caught this footage of a giant Pacific octopus just off of Bowen's Seymour Bay.

Public health officials on Vancouver Island have been inundated with calls in recent days from people concerned about possible exposure to rabid bats.