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• Extended highway closure expected due to wildfire near Port Alberni

  There's no end in sight for the closure of Highway 4 on Vancouver Island – the only highway leading to the communities of Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet – due to a wildfire burning in the area.

  

• 'For a good cause': Triathlon raising funds for Victoria Sexual Assault Centre

  Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre has seen an increase in women, trans and gender-diverse survivors seeking support after experiencing sexualized violence.

  

• Busload of B.C. students stranded by wildfire spend the night inside Vancouver Island high school

  A busload of high school students were finally heading home to Nanaimo on Wednesday after they were stranded by a raging wildfire that forced them to spend the night inside a Port Alberni high school.

  

• B.C. breweries win big at Canadian Brewing Awards

  British Columbia’s beer game continues to pack a punch on the national stage, as breweries from across the province took home nearly four dozen awards at the Canadian Brewing Awards.

  

• Speed and alcohol likely factors in fatal Nanaimo crash

  A 33-year-old man from Nanaimo is dead after a single-vehicle crash south of the city Tuesday.

• Vancouver Whitecaps celebrate back-to-back Canadian Championship win

  Whitecaps head coach Vanni Sartini jumped to chants in front of supporters while players and coaches streamed on to the field at B.C. Place, tearing off their shirts and hugging one another to celebrate a back-to-back Canadian Championship win.

• High temperature record from 1898 broken in B.C. Wednesday

  A 125-year-old temperature record fell in Pitt Meadows, B.C., on Wednesday, as another burst of hot, dry weather swept through the province

• Missing Vancouver Island man found dead: RCMP

  A 39-year-old man who was reported missing from Lake Cowichan has been found dead. Mounties say the body of Matthew Mueller was discovered on Tuesday.

• B.C. First Nation buys back 140-year-old robe, paying almost $40K to bring it home

  A man who helped return a 140-year-old Tlingit robe to the British Columbia First Nation where it was created says it's as if the regalia called out to its people and they are bringing it home.

• $35M lottery ticket sold in Victoria, splitting $70M jackpot with Ontario winner

  One lucky lottery winner in Victoria and another winner in Ontario will split the $70-million Lotto Max jackpot.

• BC Ferries cancels all Brentwood Bay to Mill Bay sailings

  BC Ferries is warning travellers that all sailings between Brentwood Bay and Mill Bay on Vancouver Island have been cancelled Wednesday.

• New font gives fresh look to B.C. Indigenous languages, advances reconciliation

  A new font to typeset Salish Indigenous languages means so much more than just the words that it will be used to write, one of the people behind its creation says.

• Victoria to host Hockey Day in Canada

  Victoria will host the 2024 Hockey Day in Canada event, which will see all seven of Canada's NHL teams in the Inner Harbour to celebrate the sport.

• Industry, conservationists welcome Ottawa's delay on B.C. salmon farm transition plan

  Both sides of British Columbia's contentious fish farm debate are welcoming Ottawa's move to delay a decision on a planned transition from open-net salmon farms in the province's coastal waters.

• B.C. prepares for fire evacuations, displacements amid health-care staffing crisis

  The officials tasked with preparing for and responding to natural disasters in the province are bracing for widespread evacuations of B.C. communities amid tinder-dry conditions that are already prompting dire wildfire predictions.

• Vancouver Island wildfire surges in size, forces rolling highway closures

  An out-of-control wildfire on Vancouver Island surged in size Tuesday, covering more than a square kilometre and forcing intermittent closures of the only highway to Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet.