The Cowichan Lake District Seniors Association Seniors Center will be closed on Friday December 25 to observe Christmas Day and on January 1 to observe New Yeara s Day.

With the town lighting up for Christmas on the first weekend in December, one resident is urging her fellow business owners to get involved.

As if by design, the grey wet sky over Lake Cowichan lightened just long enough by 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day last Wednesday to keep away the rain for the traditional service in Central Park.

Motorists using Highway 18 have likely noticed the posted signs, from either direction, that snow tires are required past the point of the signs or you must be carrying chains.

Ita s called the Pineapple Express and with it comes huge amounts of rain and strong winds that often knock out power and cause flooding.

The Nanaimo cenotaph is engraved with countless names of soldiers who died in battle, but their stories, lives or who they were isn't told on the stone surface residents face on Remembrance Day.

Ryan Eve knew exactly when his 1992 Mazda pickup truck was stolen from his Mesachie Lake home on Forestry Road.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the fourth leading cause of death in the world and health experts project it will jump into third place in just a few years.

A 64-year-old Meade Creek man died Friday night after his trailer burst into flames at about 9:30 p.m. Jacob Michael Waldner, who would have been 65 this Wednesday, was the lone occupant in the trailer.

An author of books for children and teenagers says the greatest trait to being a successful writer is perseverance.

Community interest in the old J.H. Boyd school property in Lake Cowichan appears to have waned considerably in the last 18 months, but the property still creates a stir.

For the second time in a year and a half, a residential development proposal for the old J.H. Boyd property has been denied.

The chair of the board of education says she expects the topic of a new school in Lake Cowichan will be one of the main topics discussed with Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid at the end of November.

Torch scheduled for Crofton between 4:22 and 4:36 p.m.; Chemainus between 4:45 and 5:08 p.m. In Chemainus, the commemoration of the arrival of the torch has turned into a community Halloween celebration.

The chair of the Kinsol Trestle Capital Campaign is thrilled with the latest support.

Serena Leblond, chosen to be an Olympic torch runner, practices in her official garb with a baguette in the parking lot of Cobble Hill Country Grocer, where she works as a baker's apprentice.

Chemainus and Crofton firefighters spent more than two hours containing a large diesel fuel spill resulting from a flat deck transport truck that crashed on the Chemainus Bridge on Friday at about 8:30 p.m. Andrew Leong By Peter Rusland - Cowichan News Leader and Pictorial Published: October 27, 2009 7:00 PM Updated: October 27, 2009 11:15 PM A ...

The Cowichan Lake Community Forest Cooperative wona t get a chance for a new land-based licence before its current volume-based licence expires in 2015.

There's nothing quite like getting stuck in the desert, and then rescued, writes travel scribe Holly Preston.

Although it still hasn't been revealed who or how many people will be carrying the Olympic torch through Lake Cowichan, nor even the time it will be here on October 31, we do know the route.