Tag Archives: Environment

LANTZVILLE - Rising costs forced Island Health into producing new plans for a large 306-bed long-term care home on Lantzville's southern edge. As a result, the health authority acknowledged an initial...

CALGARY - Naming mountains used to be a hobby for David Jones. Through the 1970s, the passionate climber and guidebook author would sit atop peaks in Alberta and B.C.'s mountain range, often with a cl...

A B.C. ostrich farm fighting to stop a cull of its 400-strong flock over an avian flu outbreak has been granted an interim stay by the Federal Court of Appeal in Ottawa, delaying the execution of the ...

A co-owner of the B.C. ostrich farm fighting to stop a cull of its 400-strong flock says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is "actively mobilizing" to destroy the birds over the next few days, and i...

OTTAWA - The federal electric vehicle sales mandate will not be implemented in 2026 as planned, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday, pushing back by at least a year a policy that would have set min...

Drought-stricken parts of Canada could be in for some underwhelming fall foliage if stressed trees lose out on the energy needed to generate some of the season's most brilliant colours, experts say. B...

Heat warnings and air-quality advisories are persisting in parts of British Columbia after daily high temperature records fell in a dozen communities, and the mercury rose to 40 C in the Fraser Canyon...

VANCOUVER - British Columbians are being told to prepare themselves for the worsening of a dense shroud of wildfire smoke that has descended over the province, with health experts saying the dangerous...

NANAIMO - August consistently produced hot weather locally, despite more rain than usual. An average mean daily temperature of 20.5 degrees Celsius in Nanaimo last month far surpassed typical conditio...

VANCOUVER - The BC Wildfire Service says there were more than 1,000 more lightning strikes across the province on Sunday, most of which happened in the Cariboo region. That comes after nearly 4,400 li...