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Residents living near the Salvation Army shelter on Pidcock Avenue have to deal with noise, people hanging around on the lawn and people having sex in broad daylight, and it's ruining their privacy and sense of safety, they told Courtenay council Tuesday.

The defeat of the harmonized sales tax has nearly tripled B.C.'s deficit forecast for the current fiscal year, doubled it for next year, and left a $458 million gap for 2013 when the B.C. Liberal government has committed to balance the budget and call an election.

Owners Chris Kane-White (left) and Jim Revenberg, stand next to the Nissan Leaf, Canada's first zero-emission, 100 per cent electric, mass-market car which arrived Wednesday at the dealership on Silverdale Crescent in Courtenay.

Premier Christy Clark plans to create jobs and stimulate local economies in B.C. To do so, she and Chilliwack MLA/parliamentary secretary John Les are garnering feedback from Chambers of Commerce, service clubs and business people to prepare a job strategy by the end of September.

The Vancouver Island and Coast Visitor Centre is scheduled to open in the fall at the Comox Valley Parkway at the Cumberland interchange.

Comox firefighters had to act fast to snuff a bush fire on Pritchard Road on Tuesday afternoon.

Morton testifies before Cohen Inquiry into decline of Fraser River sockeye

Comox Valley RCMP have released the names of the two women involved in a fatal rollover early Tuesday morning on the Inland Highway north of Cook Creek.

Dr. David Ta-Wei Lee was the special guest Monday at a tea reception organized by the Comox Valley Multicultural and Immigrant Support Society.

This Sunday, Janis Trainor will remember and honour her mother with every step she takes during the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope.