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09/06/2023

Another school district on Vancouver Island has cut ties with a popular Christian summer camp after a teenager spoke out against the organization's staff agreement, which prohibits "homosexual behaviour" and calls it a "sexual sin."

09/01/2023

Bankruptcy order will clear the way for 1,200 cheated investors to recover assets and a small fraction of the $226 million they are owed by disgraced mortgage broker Greg Martel.

Bankruptcy order will clear the way for 1,200 cheated investors to recover a small fraction of the $226 million they are owed by disgraced mortgage broker Greg Martel.

09/01/2023

CEO Nicolas Jimenez is repeating the same message that company representatives have been saying and buying ads for all summer: If you don't have a reservation, don't show up at a terminal in your vehicle.

With long-weekend ferry travel in full swing, B.C. Ferries is hoping that an upward trend in foot-passenger travel will continue.

08/31/2023

Highway 4, the only road connecting Tofino, Port Alberni and Ucluelet to the rest of Vancouver Island, will reopen to two-way traffic Thursday at 5 p.m.

Highway 4, the only road connecting Tofino, Port Alberni and Ucluelet to the rest of Vancouver Island, will reopen to two-way traffic at 5 p.m.

08/31/2023

A CBC viewer from Arbutus Ridge filmed this lively pod of orcas splashing in the shallow waters of the Saanich Inlet from his backyard on Monday evening.

08/31/2023

Ashley Skeldoch may be travelling with a man who police say is known to be "extremely violent."

Police in Nanaimo are asking the public for help finding 24-year-old Ashley Skeldoch, who has been missing since Tuesday.

08/29/2023

"We need to preserve them," said Saya Masso, the natural resources manager with the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation of old-growth forests on the west coast of Vancouver Island. "And we need to do it in a manner that acknowledges these trees and mountains are bringing a service to the world."

Sierra Club B.C. says the logging of large old trees in verdant, bio-diverse forests on Vancouver Island has continued mostly unabated in the 30 years since one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in Canada.

08/29/2023

The provincial wildfire map shows at least seven new wildfires sparked by lightning on Monday, five of which are within Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island.

A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for most of Vancouver Island Monday, adding to smoke and heat alerts that cover other parts of B.C.

08/27/2023

"Based on what we learn from the very large releases [of radioactive water] that occurred when the [Fukushima nuclear plant] reactors first melted down in 2011, we don't expect that the additional radionuclides that will be added to the North Pacific ... will have any negative impact on our ecosystem here ... up and down the coast of British Columbia," said Jay Cullen, a University of Victoria professor of earth and ocean science.

University of Victoria ocean scientist Jay Cullen says Japan's discharge of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean won't have a negative effect on B.C.'s ecosystem, but Canada should keep monitoring radioactive isotopes in local waters.

08/26/2023

Many people often consider learning other languages like French or Spanish. But what about SENĆOŦEN? The team at the QENTOL, YEN/ W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians Program has published a kids' book all about the killer whale or KELL̵OLEMEĆEN.

Many people often consider learning other languages like French or Spanish. But what about SENĆOŦEN? The team at the QENTOL, YEN/ W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians Program has published a kids' book all about the killer whale or KELL̵OLEMEĆEN. The book teaches fun facts about orcas and their unique co...

08/26/2023

A shortage of doctors at a Vancouver Island hospital — which one physicians says has impacted many patients — has forced an elderly man with a terminal cancer diagnosis to wait more than a day for follow-up care, according to the man's family.

08/26/2023

On Vancouver Island’s west coast, First Nations are taking back control of stewardship and access in their traditional territories.

The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation’s lands and resources manager stops to scoop them with his bare hands into a moist, shady spot beneath the trail’s cedar boardwalk. He sighs.

08/26/2023

Forty per cent of all the sailings that B.C. Ferries cancelled in its 2023 fiscal year were due to crew shortages, according to a report released at B.C. Ferries' annual general meeting.

08/24/2023

Credit and debit fares to added in 2024, says B.C. Transit.

B.C. Transit launched its hotly anticipated electronic payment system, Umo, allowing riders to tap and go with their Umo app or card, which can be loaded online or through a B.C. Transit call centre.

08/23/2023

A six-week mission by non-profit Ocean Cleanup has recovered a mother lode of plastic garbage from the Pacific Ocean.

A six-week mission by the non-profit Ocean Cleanup has recovered a mother lode of plastic garbage from the Pacific Ocean.

08/23/2023

B.C. Ferries says anyone travelling on the route between Tsawwassen and Nanaimo should book reservations in advance.

B.C. Ferries says the out-of-commission Coastal Renaissance vessel will take at least two months to repair.

08/19/2023

Some of those involved in Savage Patch were also present at the Fairy Creek protests, although they say their group is a separate movement.

On Tuesday, RCMP arrested three protesters from the group, called Savage Patch, for breaching a court-ordered injunction after the group blockaded a bridge to prevent Teal Cedar Products from logging in the area.

08/17/2023

The company has cancelled the 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. sailings from Duke Point in Nanaimo and the 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. sailings from Tsawwassen in Metro Vancouver.

One of B.C. Ferries' largest vessels that services the busy route between Nanaimo and Metro Vancouver will be out of commission for weeks, the company's president says.