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The sidewalks and businesses of Pandora Street in downtown Victoria, once buzzing with people, have quieted down considerably since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to March, hundreds of homeless people were camping on the grass medians in tent cities, allowing for easy access to…

Orange Shirt Day will be held again this year to honour residential school survivors, but in Port Alberni the event has adjusted to follow COVID-19 restrictions.

On Sept. 30 the usual gatherings will not be held, instead a group of less than a dozen people will begin a walk from the Quu’…

From the moment Gloria Frank opened her eyes for the first time, her grandparents elected her as the one they had to teach.

Not even her mother was called upon for the responsibility.

“They said there was something in my eyes when I was brand new,” she said.

And so began her…

Back in 1962, Herbert Jack began his career as a logger. His days consisted of attaching a cable to a felled tree before choking the log so it could be removed from the forest. The arduous work earned him $2 per hour. 

Up to the 1990s, the logging industry on Vancouver Island thrived…

During each of Elizabeth Jack’s pregnancies, her husband talked to his unborn daughters from inside her womb.

Whether the couple was out hunting or fishing, Matthew would speak to his wife’s stomach as if it could talk back.

It wasn’t anything poetic. He approached those…

The chinook fishery on the Somass River may be half over, but that hasn’t dampened the spirits of Tseshaht fishermen as they gear up to take part in the annual economic opportunity fishery.

Since early September Tseshaht members have taken part in demonstrations, frustrated that DFO hadn’…

After leaving a meeting in frustration over the inability to get an agreement from DFO, Tseshaht members protested in front of the federal department’s Port Alberni office today – with some stating that the First Nation will fish anyway while chinook are still passing through the Tseshaht’s home…

Seamount life 400 kilometres off Vancouver Island’s west coast is showing effects of climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels, scientists have concluded.

What makes the discovery — resulting from a scientific expedition last summer that included Nuu-chah-nulth representatives…

With a hunched back, Kyle Adams, wheel barrowed gravel down a dimly lit culvert underneath the highway leading into Tofino. Murky water pooled around his ankles as he dripped with sweat, careful not to slip.

Alongside a team from Central Westcoast Forest Society (CWFS), Adams helped to…

During a hike down to Radar Beach, Tsimka Martin stumbled upon the bones of an adult grey whale. Upon her return, she informed her father, Joe, of what she had found. He immediately began to dream up a way that he could make use of them.

Over a month ago, Martin brought her father back to…

It’s been over a year since the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls delivered its 1,200-page report to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But despite the three year, $53.8-million federal initiative that gathered testimony from 2,380 people across Canada, August…

When Dianne Ignace moved to the Heshquiat Peninsula in 1975, she remembered looking towards the skyline during herring season. A thick cloud of seagulls had moved in, blocking the view of the mountain range across the harbour. They flocked by the thousands, dodging eagles, ducks and sea lions…