Mike Patterson

The North Cowichan Fire Department is investigating a blaze on the weekend that damaged a house on York Road.

Nonprofits in BC warn that they are facing a funding crisis that will affect essential community services. Over two-hundred leaders of nonprofit organizations in the province have signed an open letter to funders to say they are “at the breaking point."

The Cowichan Valley Regional District is offering up to $3,000 to help local sports organizations sponsor events that boost sports tourism in the region.

Cowichan Search and Rescue is working with another partner to raise money to build a new search and rescue building in North Cowichan.

The Lake Cowichan RCMP is asking witnesses, or anyone with dashcam video of an incident where a beer can was thrown at a woman, to come forward.

North Cowichan will make emergency repairs after a large scour hole was discovered in June where two water mains cross the Cowichan River to supply drinking water to the south end of North Cowichan and Crofton.

As the Mount Underwood wildfire south of Port Alberni continues to burn out of control a remote area of the Cowichan Valley Regional District has been put under an evacuation order.

The heat wave on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast has tied or broken some old temperature records.