Special Reports

Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Lisa Marie memorial highlights the need for closure

Twenty-four years after her disappearance, the pain has not diminished for the family of Lisa…

Opioid crisis

Campbell River expands overdose response services with $1.14M investment from feds

More overdose response services are coming to Campbell River and the surrounding area.

Nuchatlaht Case

Nuchatlaht looks ahead after winning land title, but province wants to appeal

As the Nuchatlaht look at the future of managing their territory after a recent title victory…

The Ahousaht case

Offshore chinook catch restricted on west Vancouver Island

To protect threatened salmon stocks destined for the Fraser River, DFO has announced a…

Mount Underwood forest fire

Alberni Valley reflects on Mount Underwood as it braces for another wildfire season

The plume of smoke that towered over Port Alberni in August 2025 has long disappeared, but an…

Rebuilding threatened salmon

Redd Fish society works with Hesquiaht, Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht to restore salmon habitat

A project is being launched in Clayoquot Sound that researchers believe attends to the “root…

Old Growth Stewardship

Clayoquot Sound’s only tree farm licence subdivided into three lots to assert First Nations’ land visions

The logging tenure for a landscape made famous by the “War in the Woods” protests on the west…

Aquaculture

Cloud of uncertainty for salmon farms as federal deadline proceeds

As the sun appears to be setting on salmon farming in British Columbia, the industry remains a…

Residential schools

Hateful graffiti found on Port Alberni’s Orange Bridge for second time in a week

Port Alberni RCMP are investigating after the ‘Every Child Matters’ barrier at the Orange Bridge…

Discrimination in health care

Bernice’s story highlights B.C.’s new liver transplant guidelines for Indigenous patients

Widower Kimball Davidson says his wife Bernice is an unsung hero.

“Her weapon was…

Language

Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper Jeneva Touchie named Ucluelet’s Citizen of the Year

Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper Jeneva Touchie (Čakʷaasiqḥw̓iłim) is Ucluelet’s 2025 Citizen of…

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