CVRD looking for dirty dirt site
While five hopeful MLA candidates were going to public debates, opposing dirty dirt in the Cowichan Valley, the CVRD was hatching its own plan for contaminated soil. In their May 8 ...
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Suspicious death a homicide
Sarah Simpson / Citizen
Woman charged after car hits, damages fence
Just before 2 a.m. on May 18, the Lake Cowichan RCMP were called to a scene in which a car crashed through a fence on Comiaken Avenue. The vehicle and its operator were nowhere to be ...
Mill Bay ferry rescues couple and their dog
A fast-acting B.C. Ferries crew helped rescue two people and a dog from a sinking boat in Saan-ich Inlet on Monday. Two people on a 16-foot Bay-liner called for help about 2 p.m., B.C....
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it
Kevin Rothbauer, Citizen / Win Teague, left, and Bob Hale clean prawns for patrons of Cowichan Bay's annual Spot Prawn Festival on Sunday morning. After purchasing prawns at the wharf,...
Two injured in crash at TCH intersection
The intersection of Frayne Road and the Trans Canada Highway was the scene of a four-vehicle crash on May 16. Shawnigan Lake RCMP, Mill Bay Volunteer Firefighters, and ambulance all
Four injured in Friday crash on Highway 18
A two-vehicle collision on Highway 18 at the Skutz Falls Road intersection at about 3: 30 p.m. on May 17 has left four people with varying non-life-threatening injuries. According to a...
Pair of dogs menacing Bench area
Sherri Cruickshank has already lost two cats to a pack of seemingly wild dogs roaming around Cowichan Bay Road near Bench School. She's speaking out because she doesn't want others to ...
14 rescued after boat capsizes Monday
An alert Youbou resident helped to save the day after hearing cries for help in the north arm of Cowichan Lake just after midnight on May 20. The Lake Cowichan RCMP arrived to find an
RCMP investigating after stolen vehicle discovered
On May 15, Ladysmith RCMP were alerted to a report of a vehicle in the bushes near Transfer Beach. It turns out the white Jeep Grand Cherokee had been stolen. "A forensic
Lake Cowichan facing doctor-less future
Lake Cowichan residents, now having to face that they will have no doctor in the community at all by the end of this year, are still looking around for ways to attract a physician ...
What next for Kerry Park?
The South Cowichan community has three chances to talk about and to tour the aging Kerry Park Recreation Centre - the first being Thursday, May 23 at an open house from 5 to 8 p.m. ...
North Cowichan council water stance waiting on CVRD study
North Cowichan council will not follow the lead of the CVRD, Cowichan Tribes and Lake Cowichan and support One Cowichan's push for local control of the Cowichan Watershed.yet.
What next for Kerry Park?
The South Cowichan community has three chances to talk about and to tour the aging Kerry Park Recreation Centre — the first being Thursday, May 23 at an open house from 5 to 8 p.m. ...
Wait for CVRD water study, says council
North Cowichan council will not follow the lead of the CVRD, Cowichan Tribes and Lake Cowichan and support One Cowichan’s push for local control of the Cowichan Watershed…yet.
Lock windows and doors, warn RCMP
Yet another break and enter in the Mill Bay area has police reminding citizens to lock their windows and doors and be vigilant when it comes to suspicious activity in their ...
Police investigate suspicious death
Ladysmith RCMP are investigating a suspicious death at a home on Wagon Wheel Trail in Yellow Point. A neighbour found the body of 76-yar-old Kenneth Benjamin Hein in Hein’s ...
Hewco leaving Duncan RCMP post
One of the Cowichan Valley's biggest champions of safety and security is moving away. North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment commander Insp. Kevin Hewco has been promoted and, in a few ...
