Island News
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Health officials have identified 19 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Island region Tuesday.
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By March 31, the City of Victoria and the province have committed to housing all unsheltered people living in the city.
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The investigation into a recent Duncan homicide continues, after the death was first reported by police on Monday.
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The Qualicum School District (SD69) is notifying community members of a COVID-19 exposure at a Parksville elementary school.
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The City of Victoria is petitioning the B.C. Supreme Court to clarify whether Beacon Hill Park can be used to shelter homeless people in temporary structures.
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Students in the Comox Valley School District have launched an online petition calling for a transition to full online learning after multiple schools reported COVID-19 exposures over the past two weeks.
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British Columbia's record-breaking state of emergency has been in effect for almost a year.
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The City of Victoria has picked a Vancouver-based team to lead design and construction of a multi-million dollar skate and bike park in Topaz Park.
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A man has been arrested after a dramatic incident took place aboard a BC Transit bus on Tuesday morning.
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Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside says six new rapid response teams will help schools in B.C. identify gaps in COVID-19 safety plans to help reduce exposure risk.
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Staff at the Oaklands Community Association in Victoria are asking for donations after a broken water heater flooded the community centre.
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Drivers are being warned to prepare for traffic delays along Veterans Memorial Parkway in Langford as city crews begin tree pruning work in the area.
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The federal government has provided nearly $3.5 million in funding for five vending machines that will dispense medical-grade opioids in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia, in order to prevent overdoses.
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Three people were arrested in the early hours of Monday morning for allegedly shooting a gun in the Campbell River area.
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The District of Tofino is preparing to roll out a new tsunami monitoring and alerting system.
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Nootka Sound RCMP say a Gold River man in his mid-50s died Monday morning as the result of a worksite injury just south of the community.
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B.C. researchers say the sea cucumber's ability to remove excess organic matter from surrounding water and sediment that makes it interesting for aquaculture.
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The province is promising to open nearly 340 new child care spaces on Vancouver Island, mostly in the Greater Victoria area.
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Police are investigating after a man was killed in an altercation in Duncan in the early hours of Monday morning.
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An average of 5.3 people died each day of an illicit drug overdose in British Columbia in January, according to latest provincial statistics.
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An Indigenous person will assist British Columbia's police watchdog in an advisory role for the first time during its investigation of a fatal police shooting on the weekend.
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Police are investigating after a man allegedly poured gasoline on a tent in a Victoria park and threatened to set it on fire while someone was still inside.
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British Columbia will begin rolling out its COVID-19 mass vaccination program in earnest next week, and will allow seniors to begin booking their immunization appointments.
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Health officials identified 88 new cases of COVID-19 and one new death on Vancouver Island over the weekend.
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British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says a plan has been approved in principle to allow the Western Hockey League to resume operations in the province.
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A man has died at a logging site near the village of Gold River, approximately 90 kilometres west of Campbell River, on Vancouver Island.
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The goal of this year’s edition of the Greater Victoria Flower Count is to serve as a beacon of hope and healing for a better 2021.
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Island Health has notified the families of students at three more Vancouver Island schools that COVID-19 exposures recently took place.
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RCMP divers spent the weekend searching the waters of the Ladysmith marina for any sign of a woman who was last seen aboard a boat before it went up in flames.
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A downtown Victoria restaurant is permanently closing after a series of sexual assault allegations were levelled against a former employee earlier this year.
