A Port Hardy resident is sharing a video of a rare wildlife encounter after witnessing two elk locking antlers in a roadside battle on northern Vancouver Island.

Voters will have an opportunity to hear from candidates running for mayor of Victoria and Saanich as CHEK Media partners with the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce to host two mayoral debates.

Electric vehicle drivers in Esquimalt now have a new option for fast charging.

A pizza delivery could come with an unexpected visit from local firefighters during Fire Prevention Week in the Comox Valley.

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is promising to break with the British monarchy if elected on Oct. 5.

Canadians across the country will mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Wednesday for the sixth consecutive year, honouring the survivors of residential schools and those who never made it home.

A 330 acre parcel of land, adjacent to an already protected 1,000 acre parcel of land, will be conserved on one of the Gulf Islands.

The Royal Canadian Navy will conduct underwater demolition training at Whirl Bay on several dates throughout October.

A new purpose is being found in North Cowichan's old mill sites, and it's driving job creation in a region hit hard by forestry layoffs.

The Vancouver Island marmot is a symbol of the Island: stoic, resilient and, apparently, not always great at relationships.

Mike Williamson began his career as a 16-year-old high school student in 1971 and turned it into five decades of public service in the village he grew up in.

Nearly a decade after Kaspar Handspiker attacked and grievously injured an Oak Bay house sitter with a machete while in the midst of a home robbery, he was handed an official sentence of seven-and-a-half years behind bars.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Parliament will address AI safety this fall after media reports suggested OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot coached the Tumbler Ridge shooter.

BC NDP Leader David Eby celebrated the announcement of the expansion of the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat on Tuesday with the prime minister, saying it will provide billions of dollars in economic benefits for the province.

The University of Victoria Vikes softball team walked away with its first ever regular season championship over the weekend.

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook 32 kilometres southwest of Seattle, and officials say there is no tsunami risk to B.C.

People in Victoria who need to enter treatment, hospital or housing programs but have nowhere for their pets to go will soon have access to free, temporary foster care through a new city-supported program.

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has stayed trafficking convictions and ruled part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act is invalid after two activists were convicted of possessing drugs to sell to people in order to reduce the harms of toxic drugs.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says that with Canada's immigration system back under control, the question now is when to begin a "controlled increase" of the country's population.

Canada's Transportation Safety Board has found a series of gaps leading to a crash between a tugboat and a workboat in 2024, sinking one of the vessels in the waters near Squamish, B.C.

The driver of a tractor-trailer has learned an expensive lesson after being caught driving 81 kilometres per hour in a school zone in Northern B.C.

The BC Conservation Officer Service is reminding hunters to properly dispose of animal remains after an elk head was found dumped in the Courtenay RIver.

Nanaimo RCMP are asking for the public's help locating a 52-year-old man who recently missed an urgent medical appointment.

The remaining Category 2 and Category 3 open-fire prohibitions in the Coastal Fire Centre will be lifted on Wednesday.

A Save-On-Foods manager in Victoria was knocked unconscious and seriously injured in an assault last week, according to the president of the grocery chain's parent company.

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby's election campaign is expecting a boost today as Prime Minster Mark Carney makes an energy announcement in Vancouver.

Statistics Canada said gross domestic product growth was essentially unchanged in July, coming down from a strong second quarter for the economy.

LNG Canada says it will go ahead with the Phase 2 expansion project at its liquefied natural gas export terminal in Kitimat, B.C.

U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with Canada with outright bans on imports of certain Canadian goods.

The pair of volunteers were driving down the Alberni Highway when they noticed smoke coming from an apartment with a man inside.

A group in Nanaimo is calling for a housing project to be put on hold until a more in-depth environmental analysis can be done.

If you have leftover foreign currency gathering dust in a drawer, you might finally have a use for it.

Images posted to social media show an apparent gathering of white nationalists on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc reserve, just east of Kamloops.

BC NDP Leader David Eby and Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson are both pitching natural resource growth as a cure for the province’s ailing economy, but in neither case does it appear enough to make a major impact on the provincial deficit.

Victoria Police is turning to the public for help identifying a suspect in an assault in Beacon Hill Park on Sunday.

A man serving a sentence for extortion, break-and-enter and weapon offences is wanted on a warrant after leaving a Community Residential Facility in Victoria without permission.

Up to 10 trees will be removed from a Nanaimo property beginning this week to make way for infrastructure needed to charge a new fleet of electric buses.

With just hours to go before import bans on certain Canadian goods were set to take effect, U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he thinks he can make a trade deal with Canada in the coming weeks.

A man charged in connection with the 2023 assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ten most-wanted list.

RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says in a recent letter that information about firearms used in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., will stay under wraps for now because it's still part of an active investigation.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is co-hosting a global conference in Toronto on the plight of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials.

Ontario's health minister says she and her colleagues from across the country are set to hold an emergency meeting to talk about federal funding.

Salt Spring Island Search and Rescue crews responded to an injured hiker who fell 15 feet resulting in a lower limb injury.

Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty was noncommittal when asked about criminalizing residential school denialism after a group linked with white nationalism reportedly staged a demonstration in the B.C. interior.

The Mount Jack wildfire near Sooke has grown to more than 337 hectares, though the BC Wildfire Service says the increase is largely due to improved mapping and the fire remains classified as being held.

Three earthquakes with magnitudes around 5.0 were recorded off the coast of northern Vancouver Island early Monday morning.

Drivers travelling the Malahat and several other Vancouver Island highways will once again need to have winter tires starting Thursday.

The Competition Bureau has launched an investigation into the use of minimum advertised pricing policies in the grocery sector.

The campaigns for the upcoming British Columbia election enter their second week, with major parties gearing up policy announcements and candidate nominations.

Nico is up for adoption from Amy's Bunny Barn and Tess van Straaten talks about the growing issue of pet rabbit dumping.