Island team wants players for Canadian flag football nationals this summer

BC Flag Football is helping to send a Vancouver Island senior women’s flag football team to the Canadian nationals this summer. (Kevin Rothbauer photo)
Looking for at least 20 women
Kevin Wenstob and Sarah Flemming of 'Big Timber'. (History Channel photo)

PODCAST: Big Timber is a family affair starring B.C. loggers
B.C. sex workers are preparing for their busy season, which can be dangerous. (Unsplash)

Sex trade workers, outreach organizations prepare for busy Kelowna tourist season
Health-care professionals fight decision to reject access to psilocybin for training

Health-care professionals fight decision to reject access to psilocybin for training
Parks Canada says reservation system appears to be meeting ‘high demand’ for camping

Parks Canada says reservation system appears to be meeting ‘high demand’ for camping

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for a Kelowna man convicted of second-degree murder for bludgeoning another man with a hammer. Media wait outside court in Vancouver, on June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

‘Second lease on life’: Kelowna man convicted of 2003 murder seeks early parole
The DeHavilland Vampire Mark III has been stored in various hangars at CFB Comox since May 2000. Photo by Erin Haluschak

Comox Vampire preserving military history for air force centennial celebration
Cash, drugs and weapons seized from an Ebert Road home in Campbell River on March 16, 2023. RCMP photo

Cash, cocaine, fentanyl and weapons seized in Campbell River bust
The Marine Detective Jackie Hildering snapped this photo of the herring spawn with a telephoto lens. (Jackie Hildering photo)

Herring spawn documented for the first time ever in B.C.’s Broughton Archipelago
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Four-year-old Prince George toddler Aldie has been impressing TikTok viewers with his understanding of emotions. (Instagram/aldie_bear_)

‘That’s emotions mama’: B.C. toddler wows millions with maturity in viral TikTok

Minister of Children and Family Development Mitzi Dean makes an announcement in Mission on Feb. 2. Dillon White Photo

B.C. announces increased rates for foster parents and kinship care providers

Bank impersonation is on the rise, and people should not be fooled if a caller knows the details of their banking information. Photo: Pexels

B.C. woman loses thousands after bank account hacked

A woman pauses at a makeshift memorial for Paul Stanley Schmidt, 37, who died after being stabbed on Sunday outside a Starbucks in downtown Vancouver, on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Vancouver police say Inderdeep Singh Gosal, 32, has been charged with second-degree murder and investigators do not believe the suspect and victim knew each other. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Fatal stabbing casts a pall over downtown Vancouver neighbourhood as court date set

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The Carpenters’ Regional Council Local 1598 in Victoria is providing free naloxone kits and training to its members. (Black Press Media file photo)

Trade union B.C.’s first to offer naloxone kits to construction workers

Kits are being offered in Victoria through the B.C. Construction Industry Rehab Plan

FILE - Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the handover of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee after a three-year legal fight. The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee had asked for six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses, from 2015 to 2020. The court’s order Tuesday, Nov. 22 leaves no legal obstacle in the way. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump indicted, becomes 1st ex-president charged with crime: lawyer

Latest legal battle to likely impact Trump’s bid to retake the White House in 2024

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Sports
Retiring B.C. Lions head coach Wally Buono pauses during an emotional final news conference as players gathered for end of season meetings and to clean out their lockers at the CFL football team’s practice facility, in Surrey, B.C., on Tuesday November 13, 2018.Buono, the CFL’s all-time leader in coaching wins, and Waterboys founders Dennis Skulsky, Moray Keith, Jamie Pitblado and Tom Malone will be added to the B.C. Lions Wall of Fame this summer. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. Lions to add Wally Buono, Waterboys founders to their Wall of Fame

Inductions scheduled to be made in August when the Lions host the Calgary Stampeders

An Ottawa Senators player warms-up with rainbow coloured hockey tape as part of a #HockeyIsForEveryone campaign prior to taking on the Vancouver Canucks in NHL hockey action in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. The Vancouver Canucks will wear themed warm-up jerseys when they host the Calgary Flames for their annual Pride celebration game Friday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Vancouver Canucks to wear themed warm-up jerseys for annual Pride night

Jerseys will be designed by a local artist, and a $20,000 donation will be made to QMUNITY

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The Easter Eggspress is back at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan April 8-10, 2023. (Citizen file)

Coming up in Cowichan: Easter Eggspress is back at Forest Discovery Centre

Spring Tea Saturday in Mill Bay

”Spring is here and in preparation of Spring and delightfully daffy daze, the DDD committee presented the Town of Lake Cowichan with this banner to fly during Daffy Daze scheduled for April 1-13. Left to right is Michaela Davidson who sold the welcome flags to all the businesses (Davidson said the response and support was exceptionally good). Representing the Town of Lake Cowichan is Councillor Hazel Beech and Pat Foster. Delightfully Daffy Daze Committee chairman, Kim Poitras and committee members, Rhinda Munslow and Maureen Loebus.” (Lake News/March 25, 1998)

Flashback: Valley Fish and Game Club banquet, potential mill closure, choking baby saved

A look back at the history of the Cowichan Lake area

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Obituaries

Roberta Brown

Mar 27th, 2023

Ernest Patrick Hills Carson

Mar 21st, 2023

Jeanette Marie Gilbertson (nee Bérubé)

Mar 20th, 2023

Gordon Wayne Genis

Mar 19th, 2023

Sharon Ann Tillie

Mar 18th, 2023

Peter Robin Kenyon

Mar 18th, 2023

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Entertainment
Terry Sanderson, the Utah man suing Gwyneth Paltrow, testifies, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in Park City, Utah. Sanderson accuses Paltrow of crashing into him on a beginner run at Deer Valley Resort, leaving him with brain damage and four broken ribs. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski collision trial ends, jury deliberates

Who hit who a question as 76-year-old man’s suit actress hits deliberation stage

Shane Koyczan, pictured at the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook, 2017. The spoken word poet hits the stage at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre in Duncan on April 6, 2023. (Barry Coulter photo) Shane Koyczan, pictured at the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook, 2017. The spoken word poet hits the stage at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre in Duncan on April 6, 2023. (Barry Coulter photo)

Poetry, a musical, opera and music of John Denver all at Cowichan Performing Arts Centre in April

Up first is Shane Koyczan

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Mickey Schienle was celebrated by friends at a luncheon for her 100th birthday. (Submitted)

Happy Birthday to Kelowna’s newest centenarian

Mickey Schienle turns 100 on March 30, 2023

A meatball made using genetic code from the mammoth is seen at the Nemo science museum in Amsterdam, Tuesday March 28, 2023. An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mastodon. The high-tech treat isn’t available to eat yet - the startup says it is meant to fire up public debate about cultivated meat. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Elephant in the dining room: Startup makes mammoth meatball

Australian lab grows meat cultured from DNA of extinct mammoth, says it points way to meat’s future

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Letter: Property tax increase should be zero

Zero per cent sends a message that we genuinely care about the tough times people are experiencing

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    Letter: Going up?

    A 21-storey unit in downtown Duncan, [would provide] about 240 units

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      January 17, 2023 -Cory Landels and Laura Berlanda stand outside their Common Foundry stationary and pen shop on Wallace Street in Nanaimo . Don Denton photo

      Worth writing home about

      Nanaimo store offers curated collection of stationery treasures

        Pink fashion . Photography by Darren Hull

        Pretty in pink…and a little blue

        Single colour dominates the fashion runways

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          Pedal for Hope: Tour De Cure rallies cyclists to transform cancer care

          2,000 riders, volunteers prepare for 200-km summer fundraising ride from Cloverdale to Hope

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            Used.ca celebrates 20 years of being a local legend

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