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Search and Rescue preaching safety for Puntledge River tubers

COURTENAY, B.C. – Tubing down the Puntledge River is one of the most popular summer activities the Comox Valley...

Ground SAR offers long weekend hiking safety tips

Ground Search and Rescue is reminding people to be careful if you're venturing into the back country or heading...

Vanier student passes away during Explore Program trip

A Comox Valley youth is dead after an outdoor excursion on Hornby Island. GP Vanier Grade 11 student Sara Manitoski...

SAR reminding hikers to be prepared

Ground Search crews are reminding hikers to be prepared before heading out. A hiker from Victoria is recovering after spending...

Record number of calls for Search and Rescue in 2016

Search and Rescue crews were kept very busy over the past 12 months. Comox Valley SAR President Paul Berry...

SAR crews have busy weekend

It was a very busy weekend for Comox Valley Ground Search and Rescue crews, who were called out to...

SAR crews recover more personal belongings of missing Comox Valley hiker

Search and Rescue crews have discovered more personal belongings of missing Comox Valley hiker Sylvia Apps, but still no...
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Trio of candidates vying to serve as Courtenay mayor

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Hangar 98 – Episode 16: The Great Victoria Blackout of 1979

During a long power outage in 1979, Victoria became the focal point of a story that has lasted the test of time...and quite possibly led to one of the best memories from one of the island's worst storms.

Hangar 98 – Episode 15: Pachena Point Foghorn Incident

Over on the island's west coast, mariners have been haunted by a coastline nicknamed "The Graveyard of the Pacific", but alone at Pachena Point sits a lighthouse with stories of it's own.

Hangar 98 – Episode 14: Godzilla’s Goldstream Rampage

Hangar 98 opens to Jet Nation revealing a little secret Hollywood's been keeping since they shot Godzilla back in 2014. That secret's buried around Goldstream.

Hangar 98 – Episode 13: The Leechtown Gold Rush

In this featured Hangar 98 Episode, a once bubbling gold rush town near Sooke almost had it all, then it all came crashing down leaving nothing but a piece of land...and possibly hopes of a new 'find' on the island.