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Man's harrowing ordeal underscores the importance of water safety and situational awareness.

The weir will improve the health and ecology of the beleaguered Cowichan River, which has been beset by drought and recent fish die-offs.

Officers from the coast guard’s marine environmental hazard response team and Ahousaht Community Harbour’s emergency response staff focused on two vessels moored and leaking fuel in the Ahousaht Harbour.

A View Royal teen and her mother asked councillors to bring bear-proof garbage cans to their neighbourhood and ramp up bear protection bylaws after a mother black bear was shot by conservation officers last June.

Season starts April 3 when Norwegian Bliss pulls in to Ogden Point to mark the first of 315 visits from ships mainly plying the popular Alaska route.

OKANAGAN FALLS, B.C. — The latest funding to flow through British Columbia's Community Housing Fund will add nearly 600 rental homes to communities in the Interior and northern B.C.

SOOKE, B.C. — Police on Vancouver Island say a man and a woman are in custody after a crash that led to the discovery of an "explosive device." RCMP in Sooke, B.C.

VANCOUVER — Police say a man has been charged with second-degree murder after a woman was found dead in a home on the edge of the University of British Columbia campus last week. A statement from Cpl.

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver say a man has been charged with assault and remains in custody after allegedly waving a kitchen knife as he advanced toward two officers at a busy city intersection.

CRD is talking with Nanaimo-area private quarry about taking more biosolids, which isn’t sitting well with its counterparts to the north.