Robert Barron

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The last of the three sections of the Cowichan Valley Trail, between Agira Road and Sherman Road, that was washed out in the atmospheric river event that struck the region in November 2021 is expected to be repaired soon. (Courtesy of CVRD)

CVRD gets provincial funding to repair Cowichan Valley Trail

Trail section between Agira Road and Sherman Road closed since 2021

The last of the three sections of the Cowichan Valley Trail, between Agira Road and Sherman Road, that was washed out in the atmospheric river event that struck the region in November 2021 is expected to be repaired soon. (Courtesy of CVRD)
Ts'uubaa-asatx Chief Melanie Livingstone and Murray Rankin, minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, sign an Incremental Treaty Agreement that will return 31 hectares of Crown land to the First Nation. (Robert Barron/Citizen)

Province transfers 31 hectares of Crown land at Lake Cowichan to Ts’uubaa-asatx Nation

Transfer considered a key reconciliation milestone

Ts'uubaa-asatx Chief Melanie Livingstone and Murray Rankin, minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, sign an Incremental Treaty Agreement that will return 31 hectares of Crown land to the First Nation. (Robert Barron/Citizen)
Senior levels of government have announced they will be providing North Cowichan with an $18-million grant to create 158 new childcare spaces in the municipality. (Citizen file photo)

North Cowichan receives $18M for new childcare facility

Municipality working with Parkside Academy Society on project

Senior levels of government have announced they will be providing North Cowichan with an $18-million grant to create 158 new childcare spaces in the municipality. (Citizen file photo)
Looking towards Trunk Road on the Trans-Canada Highway through Duncan. The Trunk Road/TCH intersection was the seventh worst intersection on Vancouver Island for crashes in 2022. (Citizen file)

2 Cowichan intersections in top 10 worst for crashes on Island

ICBC reporting 54 accidents at intersection last year

Looking towards Trunk Road on the Trans-Canada Highway through Duncan. The Trunk Road/TCH intersection was the seventh worst intersection on Vancouver Island for crashes in 2022. (Citizen file)
Brent Clancy, president of the Cowichan Lake District Chamber of Commerce, said many businesses in the lake area are benefiting from the detour through the Cowichan Valley to Port Alberni. (Citizen file photo)

Highway 4 detour has been good for local business in Cowichan

Many visitors choose to stay in area

Brent Clancy, president of the Cowichan Lake District Chamber of Commerce, said many businesses in the lake area are benefiting from the detour through the Cowichan Valley to Port Alberni. (Citizen file photo)
Friends and family of six-year-old Haven Fletcher, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, are holding a fundraiser to help pay for expenses. (Submitted photo)

Fundraiser started for 6-year-old Duncan girl with terminal cancer

Goal of fundraiser for Haven Fletcher is $10,000

Friends and family of six-year-old Haven Fletcher, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, are holding a fundraiser to help pay for expenses. (Submitted photo)
There will be no full environmental assessments on two proposed expansion projects at two sites in Bamberton owned by Malahat Nation, including the quarry close to the Malahat highway (pictured). (Citizen file photo)

Full environmental assessments nixed for 2 Bamberton projects

Environmental and other groups fear for the impacts on Saanich Inlet

There will be no full environmental assessments on two proposed expansion projects at two sites in Bamberton owned by Malahat Nation, including the quarry close to the Malahat highway (pictured). (Citizen file photo)
Tests are underway by a Vancouver-based mining company to determine if there are sufficient amounts of valuable minerals in the waste-rock piles left from mining operations that took place there more than a century ago to be financially viable. Pictured is a photo from the old mining operations on the mountain. (BC Archives photo)

Company looking at potential mining on Cowichan’s Mount Sicker

Company testing waste rock from past operations for mineral value

Tests are underway by a Vancouver-based mining company to determine if there are sufficient amounts of valuable minerals in the waste-rock piles left from mining operations that took place there more than a century ago to be financially viable. Pictured is a photo from the old mining operations on the mountain. (BC Archives photo)
Cowichan Valley MLA and B.C. Green leader Sonia Furstenau said long-term solutions are needed for the Fairy Creek watershed. (Black Press Media file photo)

Cowichan Valley MLA says extending logging deferral at Fairy Creek not enough

Sonia Furstenau said longer-term solutions needed

Cowichan Valley MLA and B.C. Green leader Sonia Furstenau said long-term solutions are needed for the Fairy Creek watershed. (Black Press Media file photo)
Television personality Pamela Anderson will star in a new vegan cooking show that will be filmed in the Cowichan Valley. (Black Press photo)

Pamela Anderson to star in vegan cooking series filmed in Cowichan

Filming set for late August

Television personality Pamela Anderson will star in a new vegan cooking show that will be filmed in the Cowichan Valley. (Black Press photo)
It will likely take until the end of the summer to replace the playground equipment in Centennial Park that was destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of May 26. (Citizen file photo)

It will take several months to replace destroyed playground equipment, City of Duncan says

Centennial Park playground burned down in act of arson in May

It will likely take until the end of the summer to replace the playground equipment in Centennial Park that was destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of May 26. (Citizen file photo)
Tom Reid, the west coast conservation land manager for the Nature Trust of BC, talks about plans to restore 70 hectares of the Cowichan River estuary during a tour of the area where the work will take place this summer on June 5. (Robert Barron/Citizen)

Restoration project at Cowichan River estuary announced

Government and conservation groups commit up to $3 million

Tom Reid, the west coast conservation land manager for the Nature Trust of BC, talks about plans to restore 70 hectares of the Cowichan River estuary during a tour of the area where the work will take place this summer on June 5. (Robert Barron/Citizen)
North Cowichan Councillor Christopher Justice. (Photo by Kurt Knock)

North Cowichan to undertake a study of its forest trails

Trails can have both positive and negative impacts

North Cowichan Councillor Christopher Justice. (Photo by Kurt Knock)
North Cowichan Coun. Tek Manhas. (Citizen file)

Language in North Cowichan’s new gender-neutral policy raises concerns

Policy intended mainly to avoid bias towards a particular sex or social gender

North Cowichan Coun. Tek Manhas. (Citizen file)
Alison Nicholson, the CVRD director for Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora, has raised concerns about damage to the Cowichan River due to overuse. (Citizen file photo)

Tubing operations at Lake Cowichan’s Little Beach to continue under Tube Shack

CVRD intends to sign usage agreement with Lake Cowichan business

Alison Nicholson, the CVRD director for Cowichan Station/Sahtlam/Glenora, has raised concerns about damage to the Cowichan River due to overuse. (Citizen file photo)
Cowichan Valley senior Grace Price said the costs of shingle vaccinations in B.C. are out of reach for many people. (Robert Barron/Citizen)

Costly shingles vaccines spark call for change from Cowichan senior

Many seniors on fixed incomes can’t afford them

Cowichan Valley senior Grace Price said the costs of shingle vaccinations in B.C. are out of reach for many people. (Robert Barron/Citizen)
Approximately 30 protestors gathered outside the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment on May 26 to take issue with the RCMP's handling of a case involving the death of teenager Carsyn Mackenzie Seaweed. (Robert Barron/Citizen)

Group demands justice for late Indigenous teen with protest outside Cowichan RCMP detachment

RCMP now say investigation is continuing after initially saying no criminality involved

Approximately 30 protestors gathered outside the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment on May 26 to take issue with the RCMP's handling of a case involving the death of teenager Carsyn Mackenzie Seaweed. (Robert Barron/Citizen)
The Municipality of North Cowichan will kick off its 150th anniversary celebrations on June 18. (Citizen file photo)

North Cowichan to kick off its 150th anniversary celebrations on June 18

Event will take place at Water Wheel park in Chemainus

The Municipality of North Cowichan will kick off its 150th anniversary celebrations on June 18. (Citizen file photo)
North Cowichan currently has no bylaws to prevent roosters on properties bigger than 0.4 acres (Citizen file photo)

Backyard rooster driving neighbours crazy, North Cowichan has no solutions

Poultry bylaws don’t preclude roosters at this time

North Cowichan currently has no bylaws to prevent roosters on properties bigger than 0.4 acres (Citizen file photo)
It was necessary to decriminalize the possession of up to 2.5 grams of street drugs, including the methamphetamine pictured, in B.C. in order to save lives, says RCMP Insp. Chris Bear. (Black Press photo)

Decriminalization of some drugs necessary to save lives, says head of North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP

But Insp. Chris Bear said decriminalization is not legalization.

It was necessary to decriminalize the possession of up to 2.5 grams of street drugs, including the methamphetamine pictured, in B.C. in order to save lives, says RCMP Insp. Chris Bear. (Black Press photo)