3 h. ago Western Canada Marine Response Corporation exercised off Vancouver Island last month

VICTORIA — Engineer Jashan Bains is the first to spot a black dorsal fin cutting through the water. “Whale, one o’clock,” he says. It’s a September morning on board the Hecate Sentinel, a 20-metre long skimming vessel, one of eight ships the Western Canada Marine Response Corp. maintains in Sidney, B.C., and one of eight […]

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43 h. ago Metro Vancouver votes to adopt new approach for Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant

The existing Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant will undergo phased upgrades to rehabilitate the existing primary treatment plant and complete a secondary wastewater plant.

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3 d. ago Man gets six years for shooting, arson at Punjabi singer’s home in B.C.

RCMP say in a news release that 26-year-old Abjeet Kingra has a noted connection to the India-based Bishnoi gang, and a judge concluded that the attack on Dhillon's Vancouver Island home last year was not isolated.

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8 d. ago Weather alert: Fall has arrived in the South Coast, and so has the rain

Squamish, Vancouver Island and the North Shore expected to be hit by back to back storm systems this weekend.

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9 d. ago Crew frees humpback whale from rope and fishing gear off B.C.’s coast

The entangled whale was first sighted Sunday in the Strait of Georgia by two vessels operated by Vancouver Island Whale Watch.

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9 d. ago B.C. Ferries: Bowen Island mayor leads call for better service on minor routes

Andrew Leonard is leading a group of smaller B.C. communities about breakdowns and poor communication with the provincial ferry service

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2 w. ago Lichen, logging, land rights: Complex forces play out in fate of ancient B.C. forest

A shaggy, cool-green lichen hangs from the trunk of a tree in a forest on northeastern Vancouver Island, growing on the bark like coral on a rocky sea floor. Lichenologist Trevor Goward has named it oldgrowth specklebelly, and while the slow-growing lichen is a species at risk in its own right, he says it is […]

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2 w. ago Drone video captures truck falling into Vancouver Island lake as ground gives way

A large truck ended up in a lake on Vancouver Island on Aug. 26 after the ground beneath it collapsed. Luckily, the driver was able to swim to the shore.

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3 w. ago Dead calf still attached to umbilical cord pushed by orca near Vancouver Island

A statement from the American-based Center for Whale Research says it is not clear yet whether the calf was stillborn or died shortly after birth.

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3 w. ago Logging firm wins injunction to halt Walbran Valley blockade on Vancouver Island

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court has granted an injunction to a forestry company to halt a blockade against old-growth logging in the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island, with the judge saying it “appears clear” the protesters’ action is criminal. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Amy Francis said Friday that protests “are part of a healthy […]

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3 w. ago Loggers win injunction against B.C. blockade in the Walbran Valley

A forestry company has won an injunction to halt a blockade against old-growth logging in the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island. 

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4 w. ago 2nd BC Ferries passenger in 2 days goes overboard into ocean

This incident follows a similar one on Wednesday afternoon when a person went overboard from the Spirit of Vancouver Island after leaving Tsawwassen.

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4 w. ago Alligator Alcatraz saved? Appeals court panel stops order to wind down facility

Last month, a judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering operations at the facility to wind down by the end of October, with the detainees transferred to other facilities.

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