Wildfire smoke to reach Vancouver Island this weekend
Smoke from multiple wildfires is expected to blanket Vancouver Island this weekend, leading to decreasing air quality in the region.
Smoke from multiple wildfires is expected to blanket Vancouver Island this weekend, leading to decreasing air quality in the region.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrapped up his family vacation in Tofino, B.C., on Friday. He was expected to fly to Edmonton where he was scheduled to visit a wildfire evacuation centre that has been set up for those fleeing the raging wildfires in the Northwest Territories.
A Victoria community garden born during the COVID-19 pandemic has not only doubled in size, it’s been declared a new permanent fixture in James Bay – garnering calls to action from others to do the same.
The Canadian military is delivering on its promise to increase the number of warships deployed annually to the Indo-Pacific region from two ships to three, starting this summer.
A 21-year-old college student has been fined $1,200 and ordered to complete 25 hours of community service after the vehicle he was driving veered into oncoming traffic and killed a 29-year-old teacher in a head-on crash near Courtenay.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is vacationing with his family on Vancouver Island this week. The prime minister's plane landed at Tofino-Long Beach Airport just before 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
The City of Nanaimo is hiring 40 new firefighters over the next two years, including 21 this year, to help tackle a significant increase in calls.
Canada's highest court has refused to hear an appeal of a British Columbia Supreme Court decision that acquitted a demonstrator of criminal contempt for taking part in a blockade of old-growth logging on Vancouver Island.
A WestJet flight getting ready to take off from the Comox Valley Airport collided with a parked military aircraft from 19 Wing Comox, tearing off a piece of its wing on Wednesday.
The former head of a private school near Nanaimo has been banned from teaching for 15 years after he sent sexually explicit messages and tried to meet with what he thought was a 15-year-old boy.
Doctors and community leaders in Nanaimo are demanding provincial action in response to a lack of cardiac care in the growing central and northern regions of Vancouver Island.
Oldtimers baseball was on full display in Port Alberni over the weekend. Nine teams spanning from as far east as Ontario, through the Prairies and into British Columbia played in the Canadian National Oldtimers Baseball Federation championship.
Gareth Gaudin never imagined that he'd make a connection across the ocean when he made an unexpected discovery on the beach.
After months of asking his mom if he could set up a stand at the end of their driveway, and her saying it was too cold, Anders Yee finally got the go-ahead to start selling lemonade, with a twist.
Wendy Nesbitt’s daily walks with her adopted one-eyed dog inevitably include a pause to place two googly eyes on a rock.
Shelaella Taylor grabs her skateboard, calls her dog, and prepares to do what her mom says would have been unthinkable when her daughter was a child.
Now husband and wife, Gabriela and Jamie couldn’t be more grateful that — against all odds — their first love turned out to be their forever love.
Before Jaimey Hamilton discovered the healing power of making music, learning to play the guitar as a child felt like a chore.
Sarah practiced karate daily, and eventually placed so well at the regional and provincial level--sometimes against athletes without disabilities-- that she recently earned an opportunity to compete at the Karate Canada National Championships in Quebec.
When Shelagh Germyn first started running, she was leaving a lot behind. “I had a bit of a bit of a mixed up family,” Shelagh admits.
If we can find pleasure in facing our fears, Toni says, we just may discover a whole new world of possibilities.
The B.C. government has declared a province-wide state of emergency due to the growing number of aggressive wildfires threatening communities.
Structures have burned and emergency responders were trapped Friday after the fast-moving McDougall Creek wildfire grew significantly overnight.
Amid evacuation orders, the mayor of Yellowknife is urging non-essential workers to leave by Friday night as wildfires remain 15 km northwest of the city’s boundaries.
The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a 'reckless' ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.
Thousands of residents from the Northwest Territories have been displaced from their homes due to ongoing wildfires. Here’s how Canadians can support impacted communities.
Wildfire evacuees that have lost their jobs and need to apply for federal employment insurance will have their applications prioritized, according to Canada's Minister of Citizens' Services Terry Beech.
West Kelowna fire chief Jason Brolund's voice conveyed both pride and exhaustion as he described the risks crews took battling the McDougall Creek wildfire Thursday night.
Images captured by satellite show the extent of some of the damage caused by wildfires in Canada this summer.
The Manitoba government says people forced to evacuate due to wildfires in the Northwest Territories could be arriving in Manitoba by Saturday.
Polar bear sightings are on the rise in Manitoba this year.
A neurosurgeon who performed life-saving brain surgery on a 10-year-old patient a decade ago said it’s surreal to work alongside her in his lab this summer.
A former Meadow Lake pastor has lost a bid to avoid extradition to the United Kingdom to face historical sexual abuse charges.
An Ontario senior said she lost thousands of dollars earlier this year in a scam where someone pretended to be an employee of her bank.
In a moment that was almost 80 years in the making, a 98-year-old Ottawa veteran reunited this weekend with the girl he rescued when she was just three years old in Holland during the Second World War.
A state of emergency and evacuations issued in Kelowna, B.C. amid wildfires; meanwhile, N.W.T residents flee as wildfires worsen.