Community support is blooming on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, where various grocers will be donating net proceeds of select plant sales to build a cancer centre. During the campaign ...

He said his family was the first and last to plant citrus in Orange. By 1974, his father owned the only farm left in the city. Now he fears Yuma, where they got a fresh start, is “gonna go just like ...

More than 5,000 customers on Galiano Island, Mayne Island, Saturna Island and Salt Spring lost power overnight due to trees down across power lines. About 2,000 additional customers in Saanich saw ...

As a summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Jakarta fast approached in September 2023, Indonesia’s state-run electricity provider, PLN, partially shut down one of its oldest and biggest coal-fired power ...

(Among other steps along the way to reopening, Constellation has proposed renaming the Three Mile Island plant in honor of the late Christopher Crane, its former CEO.) “Major maintenance and ...

Vancouver Island University has returned $3.5 million to the provincial government after a proposed child-care ­centre on its Nanaimo campus was abandoned due to cost ­overruns. The 75-space ...

The B.C. Energy Regulator has toughened its oversight of what it calls “induced” seismic activity after a series of earthquakes linked to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the northeastern ...

The new species of mintbush, ‘Prostanthera floydii’, discovered in Coffs Harbour. HAVING lain deep in the vaults ... identification required local field work and cultivation of the plant at the ...

A coal-fired power plant towering over this community is closing soon, and people are urgently pondering Hayden's future. "There's a lot of great minds working together to figure some of the ...

Victoria’s Inner Harbour will come alive with reggae beats and Caribbean vibes at February’s inaugural Winter Lime event. The Vancouver Island Caribbean Hub ... heated tents and a kids zone. A game ...