Category Archives: British Columbia

PORT ALBERNI - The purchase of a prime piece of waterfront property has completed.The City of Port Alberni recently purchased the Somass Mill property from Western Forest Products for $5.3 million. Ma...

NANAIMO - A Nanaimo cyclist exceeded their fundraising goal by riding up and down their steep mid-Nanaimo street 100 times. Marc Gervais pedalled along Chestnut St. in mid-July to raise money for the ...

VANCOUVER - The estimated $78 million in insured property damage from the wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C., in June is a fraction of the rising costs of disasters fuelled by clim...

VANCOUVER - The BC Wildfire Service says it is preparing for a potential increase in lightning strikes and shifting winds as cooler weather is forecast over the next few days. Fire information officer...

VANCOUVER - Pacific salmon can no longer access hundreds of kilometres of spawning streams or floodplain habitat after decades of urban, agricultural and resource development around British Columbia's...

NANAIMO - Household items in need of a new home are up for grabs with the return of the popular Reuse Rendezvous event.Nanaimo residents are invited to place their usable goods outside their homes on ...

NANAIMO - The rising trend of new COVID-19 cases in Island Health shows no signs of stopping. Another 29 new cases were found in the health authority by Friday, Aug. 13, with 11 in the central Island ...

NANAIMO - A diver vanished in the waters off Lantzville, leading to an extensive search effort.Nanaimo RCMP reported a man failed to resurface to a boat off the shores of the Winchelsea Islands at abo...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has reported 717 new cases of COVID-19, pushing the number of active infections in the province to 4,277. Over half the latest cases and about 57 per cent of active infecti...

KAMLOOPS - Canada's first FireSmart community is being put to the test. Logan Lake is under an evacuation order, threatened by the unpredictable Tremont Creek wildfire. The wildfire jumped fire guards...