Furstenau lost her seat in the legislature in last year's provincial election. She has served as leader since 2020 and as an MLA since 2017.

Mount Arrowsmith is one of the first things you see when you come over the hump of the Alberni Summit and descend into the valley. The mountain has long held an important place in local First Nations histories — but is also playing an important role in the future of the city.

The Kwakwaka'wakw hereditary chief once faced off with former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in heated constitutional talks in the 1980s, and eventually helped get Indigenous title to land and treaty rights enshrined in the Constitution.

An interim housing report presented in December suggests Port Alberni build over 1,200 units of housing over the next five years to keep up with demand as the city's population grows.

New data from VicPD, released following an order from the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner, shows Indigenous and Black people were overrepresented in police use-of-force incidents between 2018 and 2023.

Having just finished her Broadway stint as Roxie Hart in Chicago, Pamela Anderson was looking forward to spending time in her garden, and making pickles and jam — like a page out of her cookbook, I Love You: Recipes from the Heart, which came out last fall. But then, her son brought her the script for The Last Showgirl.

There is no Dushka Burger restaurant at 580 Yates St., and after contacting Uber Eats — which says it discovered fraudulent activity — the food-delivery service closed its account on the app.

RCMP say multiple charges have been approved against three Vancouver Island men accused of sexual offences against minors. 

The same whale that made world headlines in 2018 for pushing her dead newborn calf around for 17 days, has now spent at least nine days doing the same with her calf that died around New Year's Eve.

Natalee Dennis was sitting in an outdoor hot tub with her father, Steve Dennis, in their backyard hot tub when they heard an animal nearby.

Const. Jason Ellias Sammoun has been suspended with pay, RCMP say.

Two physician assistants have started work at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital on Vancouver Island, the first time the profession has been approved to work in a B.C. hospital setting.

Scott Steer was found guilty of six counts, including breaching court prohibitions against possessing or acquiring fishing gear. 

When Stephanie Harrington started going to bereavement support groups after the loss of her brother, the room was filled with parents who had lost children. But she said the grief parents feel can be much different than what siblings experience.

The charge against 77-year-old Gloria Lemay comes almost one year to the day after the alleged victim died on Jan. 6, 2024 — 10 days after a home birth over which Lemay is accused of presiding in contravention of a decades-old court order restraining her from acting as a midwife.

The Regional District of Nanaimo says the Ammonite Falls Regional Trail is closed until further notice after reports of a cougar "guarding its kill in the area."

The Whale Interpretive Centre, where visitors could walk underneath huge whale skeletons suspended from the ceiling, was a huge tourist attraction that helped fuel the economy of northern Vancouver Island.

Ucluelet RCMP Const. Mark Macdonnell said when he received the report about a sea lion on the highway nearly 10 kilometres inland from the ocean, he was skeptical.

The 80-year-old man from Red Deer, Alta., whom family identified as Patrick Hare, had stopped to help a woman whose minivan hit a power pole on Vancouver Island on March 2.

Environment Canada lifted all heavy rainfall and strong wind warnings for B.C. on Boxing Day, after storms wreaked havoc, leaving thousands of people without power on Christmas.

Ferries have been cancelled between Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island as a windstorm slams into southwest B.C. on Christmas Day.