As British Columbians prepare to head to the polls, a grassroots campaign is underway to urge Saanich voters to elect municipal leaders who support one specific issue: the right for dogs to frolic off...

CBC News has spent months going through court records and speaking with victims in the largest case of voyeurism ever reported in Canada. Victims say it has left them feeling shattered, hunted and str...

A coroner's inquest will begin today into the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation man by Tofino RCMP in 2021, during what police described as a wellness check.

The deal would leave the public on the hook for more of the TMX megaproject’s cost overruns.

Canada already sees a higher portion of private health care spending than a lot of countries, and it needs to change

Twice in the last three years, communities on western Vancouver Island found themselves cut off by a wildfire that closed their lone road connecting them to the rest of the Island.

“There doesn't seem to be a very good accountability mechanism here,” said Victoria resident and frequent police critic Stephen Harrison, who obtained the documents. “Literally nobody other than the i...

Thousands of people have died due to the toxic drug crisis in the decade since B.C. declared it a public health emergency. But a new study shows that many more could have died if not for the province'...

The first known victim of a Saanich man convicted of what officials have called the most "egregious" case of voyeurism in Canada is speaking out, sharing her story and what she says are much needed re...

Nick says he’ll go back to Manitoulin. Texas can’t even think about the closure. Inside Moss Park in the final days of a nine-year era of safe consumption.

Community members are calling for more transparency from the Saanich Police Department following a case of voyeurism where hundreds of victims remain unidentified, causing anxiety for potential victim...

All Greater Victoria School Board trustees were reinstated last week after the province's late disclosure of court-ordered documents, which included text messages involving a senior ministry official.

The justice's reasons for sentencing a Saanich, B.C. man of voyeurism, obtained by CBC News, cast new light on the extent of his crimes in the community, and the toll it has taken on the victims who h...

The justice's reasons for sentencing a Saanich, B.C. man of voyeurism, obtained by CBC News, cast new light on the extent of his crimes in the community, and the toll it has taken on the victims who h...

B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma says people deserve to know whether they may be among the at least 652 women and girls filmed by a Saanich, B.C., man convicted of voyeurism and making child sexual a...

More than 500 people died while experiencing homelessness in 2024, a more than tripling from 2020. Many of the deaths, data shows, were as a result of the toxic drug supply.

More than 500 people died while experiencing homelessness in 2024, a more than tripling from 2020. Many of the deaths, data shows, were as a result of the toxic drug supply.

Despite how the newspaper downplayed it, this is—in fact—a big deal

A network of retired academics and think tanks is chipping away at established truths.

Tourism and festival industry organizers say the increased demands of these security measures, as well as rising costs for things such as insurance, permits, and supplies, have resulted in significant...

Migrant sex workers say they're ‘more afraid of police than perpetrators of a crime,’ as new data reveals VPD ‘immigration status checks’ spiked 80% to nearly 1,000 people in two years

The RCMP says the briefings are meant to provide ‘situational awareness.’ One climate advocate says it’s ‘deeply disturbing.’

Most of Vancouver Island has been logged. Now, one of the last ancient forests, in the Tsitika River watershed, is on the chopping block.

The Mental Health Act, which legislates the involuntary detention and treatment of people who have a mental illness, has been hotly contested in recent years. As B.C. has put involuntary care at the f...

In the 10 years since B.C. declared the toxic drug crisis a public health emergency, First Nations leaders say the crisis has had an outsized impact on Indigenous communities.

A coroner's inquest has been called into the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting and B.C.'s public safety minister says a public inquiry is also possible. But how do the two differ and what can Canadians expe...

The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

The wind storm on Monday afternoon that caused B.C. Ferries to cancel almost all sailings between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island came at the peak of the holiday travel season – leaving the fa...

Police are investigating after two early-morning shootings have taken place over the past three days on two residential streets in Vancouver Island's, Cowichan Valley. Cpl. Alex Bérubé, media relation...

Recommendations from an all-party B.C. committee on democratic reform has reignited a longstanding conversation in the province about the possibility of proportional representation.

'You feel lost and powerless, because you are,' Drug User Liberation Front co-founder testifies on day one of weeks-long hearing

While Premier David Eby says these changes are necessary to make sure health-care workers are clearly protected from liability, some in the health-care industry have raised questions about why this ch...

After two years of FOI requests and complaints, the Vancouver police finally let The Tyee review some training modules.

While the province has explored wider distribution of the spray for free as a pilot program, Health Minister Josie Osborne says it has not completed an evaluation of the program initially set to be co...

An agreement, signed today, between all Canadian provinces, territories, and the federal government, will drop interprovincial trade barriers on many goods except food and alcohol. It's part of an eff...

Many services on Salt Spring Island are experiencing a labour shortage, driven by a lack of housing workers can afford. It’s pushed businesses around the island to offer housing for workers in order t...

A B.C. Green MLA bill this week aims to create vacancy control – a policy that would limit rent increases by tying them to a unit, not an individual tenancy. It's generated support from poverty reduct...

The Victoria Police Department spent more than $22,000 in public funds on a celebration that honoured its outgoing and incoming police chiefs, according to a freedom of information request.