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Comox council gave third reading to a 19-lot single-family subdivision on Lazo Road at Wednesday’s meeting, but some councillors inquired about the need for more park space in the area.

Courtenay’s mayor and two councillors went down swinging last week against final adoption of the city’s controversial new tree protection and management bylaw.

Dancers, entertainers, local dignitaries and organizations filled downtown Cumberland Monday during the annual Victoria Day parade on Dunsmuir Avenue.

Photographer captures wildlife interaction in Greater Victoria.

Baby ducks pulled from peril early Friday morning in Greater Victoria

They circled in the hundreds overhead - like a scene from Hitchcock’s The Birds - and they have come to roost in one of Courtenay’s tallest chimneys.

The Nanaimo RCMP have recovered a body believed to be that of Makayla Chang.

The paths have been given a new layer of bark mulch, the rhodos are in bloom and more than 70 artists and artisans will be setting up booths to display their creations at the 15th annual Kitty Coleman Woodland Gardens Art & Bloom Festival to be held May 20 to 22.

Website, online petition for Equal Access Committee

There’s not enough evidence yet to warrant installing a crosswalk at Back Road and Tunner Drive.