A company that ships goods between Vancouver Island and the mainland says a strike by its workers has been averted at the last minute.

Across the province, nine COVID-19-related deaths were reported over the past 24 hours, including the one in Island Health. 43

British Columbia is cancelling provincial graduation assessments for students in Grades 10 and 12 due to staffing shortages amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 3

Island Health declared three new COVID-19 outbreaks at care homes on Vancouver Island Friday.

The BC SPCA says more than 200 beef cattle were seized from a Vancouver Island property after the owner reportedly left them in distressing conditions.

The province says the change will come into effect on Feb. 1 and will help divert the plastic jugs and paper cartons from the landfill.

The Canadian navy will get a rare shoutout in China next month as Canada's Olympic sliding athletes are set to compete on sleds paying homage to historic warships at the Beijing Games. 1

The Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District has announced its plans to roll out a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all district staff.

More than a million dollars' worth in health-order and quarantine violation tickets have been handed out in B.C. since the summer after COVID-19 arrived in the province.

Mounties in Langford, B.C., are asking the public for help identifying a man who allegedly threw a cup of coffee at a Tim Hortons employee.

The number of COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in B.C. care homes continues to grow during the Omicron surge, but deaths in this wave remain less common than they were during previous ones. 1

Police say a man who was reported missing from Nanaimo, B.C., earlier this week has been found dead.

British Columbia is beginning to manage COVID-19 more like the common cold, the province's top doctor said Friday while explaining major shifts in the government's approach to the pandemic. 4

Island Health is warning of an increase in overdoses and drug poisonings in Greater Victoria.

The province's top doctor is giving the public a better idea of what a previously promised "deep dive" into COVID-19 hospitalizations will entail. 4

Pacific FC head couch Pa-Modou Kah is heading south to join FC Dallas after two years with the Vancouver Island team, and a recent championship win at the 2021 Canadian Premier League. 2

BC Hydro says that energy use saw record-high peaks in both the summer and winter of last year.

Just weeks away from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the Canadian women’s curling team is ready to rock with the help of a local coaching legend.

Three residents of Fir Park Village in Port Alberni have tested positive, as have four residents each at The Summit and Parkwood Court long-term care homes in Victoria.

The fifth and latest COVID-19 wave driven by the Omicron variant may have reached its peak, says Canada’s top public health official, but hospitalizations and intensive care admissions, which lag behind infections, are still climbing. 11

B.C. health officials say four more deaths related to COVID-19 were confirmed in Island Health over the past 24 hours. 2

A massive backlog of recycling and garbage pickup is happening in the Capital Regional District, with a combination of staff shortages due to COVID-19, equipment failures and bad weather to blame. 1

Vancouver Island musician, Lauren Spencer-Smith, has released a new single called 'Fingers Crossed,' and it's been soaring up the music charts ever since it dropped at the beginning of the new year.

After being closed for almost a month due a provincial health order aimed at preventing the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, gyms and fitness centres in Greater Victoria have reopened.

The District of Sooke is looking for a pair of volunteers to offer guidance to council on artistic projects and events in the community.

BC Housing and the Capital Regional District are planning to build a new shelter space on Salt Spring Island, where housing is notoriously difficult to find.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control has changed its guidelines on self-isolation and managing COVID-19 at home as the Omicron variant of concern continues to surge in the province. 43

A 10-episode podcast, called "Missing Michael," promises to dive deep into the disappearance of the then four-year-old boy who went missing in Victoria. 3

Nearly two years after parking fees were waived at many health-care facilities in B.C., the province is reinstating paid spots for some.

It's been three months since 109 shipping containers were knocked from a cargo ship traveling through rough seas off the west coast of Vancouver Island, yet the location of all but four remain unknown. 1