NANAIMO - One of the premier events on Vancouver Island returns to the skies this weekend.The Comox Air Show takes place Saturday, May 18 at 19 Wing Comox, and final preparations are being made ahead of the highly anticipated event.19 Wing public affairs officer Capt. Christine MacNeil said interest for the event remai...

Toronto Hydro says power has been restored after a large outage caused by a squirrel impacted thousands of people in the downtown area. The company's outage map showed the disruption started at 10:23 a.m. when the animal came into contact with power equipment. Toronto Hydro says power was fully restored at about 1:30 ...

FORT NELSON, B.C. - British Columbia's wildfire service says gusty winds could fan "aggressive fire behaviour" in the north, where out-of-control blazes have forced several thousand people to flee their homes. An update from the BC Wildfire Service says winds could pick up this afternoon in the Fort Nelson ar...

NANAIMO - Two of the Island's finest performers did all they could, but barely missed out on the grand prize. The Island-based dance duo of Jacksun Fryer and Carlow Rush placed second in the latest season of Canada's Got Talent, missing out on the grand prize to Prince Albert, SK singer Rebecca Strong during the Tuesda...

NANAIMO - Additional childcare spaces at District 68 school sites will be available this fall following a funding announcement from Premier David Eby. Of the 180 new licensed childcare spaces pledged by the premier for the next two years at three school districts, 96 spaces are slated to be added to Nanaimo Ladysmith P...

VICTORIA - Justina Elias says she didn't know about the connection legendary Canadian writer Alice Munro had to the Victoria, B.C., bookstore that bears her name, but she quickly found out. Elias, who runs the fiction section at Munro's Books, said the "serendipity" of ending up working at a book store founde...

NANAIMO - A former local commercial fisherman with a long history of illegal angling will be lured back to court to face several more fishing-related charges. Scott Stanley Matthew Steer, 47, and his common-law wife Melissa Dawn Larocque (Steer) were in BC Supreme Court in Nanaimo challenging the validity of a search w...

A former British Columbia forests minister says the province is on the right track as it responds to worsening wildfires, but the scale of the challenge is so great, it's falling behind and needs to prioritize a "whole-of-society" approach. Doug Donaldson says the place to start should be a dedicated provinci...

NANAIMO - Fire has caused considerable damage to a north end home after initially starting near a parked vehicle. Calls to 911 from the homeowner and others came in just before 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14 to a home in the 5200 block of Hammond Bay Rd., near Fillinger Cres., where a vehicle and surrounding shrubs near a t...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A First Nations community in B.C.'s northern Interior that is hosting a gathering of Indigenous groups involved in the search for unmarked graves says it's conducting a geophysical survey for such sites on the grounds of a former residential school. The Nadleh Whut'en Indian Band, whose territory ...