Category Archives: British Columbia

NANAIMO - Campfires and other burning options will soon be permitted across Vancouver Island.The Coastal Fire Centre is set to remove the final seasonal fire restrictions across its jurisdiction at no...

NANAIMO - To combat a spike in single use take-out food containers spurred by the pandemic, a new project is pushing people to make the move to metal.Reusables VI partnered with five Nanaimo restauran...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is offering nurses and other health-care professionals incentives like child care and support for housing and travel as part of a recruitment drive in the no...

NANAIMO - Billed as "affordable rental homes" by the province, new apartments slated near downtown and the Vancouver Island University won't be much cheaper than what's already available.Construction ...

NANAIMO - COVID-19 case numbers for Island Health continue to trend up.The health authority added another 77 new cases to its total on Tuesday, Sept. 14, marking now 7,371 cases in the health authorit...

NANAIMO, B.C. - A British Columbia forestry company is in court applying for a one-year extension of an injunction against ongoing old-growth logging protests on southern Vancouver Island. A lawyer fo...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says the provincial government has not effectively overseen the safety of the 1,900 dams it regulates. In a news release, Michael Pickup says the Ministry...

NANAIMO - The E&N Trail rail lines running through Snaw-Naw-As First Nation will remain property of the government, at least for now.On Tuesday, Sept. 14, the BC Court of Appeal announced they uph...

NANAIMO - A timeline is in place to reverse the tradition of having to rely on an unauthorized rope to scale down the embankment to enjoy Ammonite Falls.Crews are scheduled to start phase two of upgra...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government is ending a provincial state of emergency because of wildfires on Tuesday night. The government says it is taking the step based on advice from emergency management and ...