RCMP begin enforcing injunction at Fairy Creek watershed
Police have set up a temporary access control area.
City of Victoria set to create bylaw that will limit house demolition
Homes will have to be dismantled by hand.
Sooke School District switches to electric school buses for next year
Put the pedal to the electric!
Activists capture incident with loggers at Fairy Creek blockade, including assault
Forestry workers verbally and physically assaulted one youth.
Victoria’s downtown clean team will work weekends over the summer
Beginning this weekend!
Fairy Creek protestors file a notice to appeal a court order from April
The group say public interest far outweighs the profit-making ability.
Province and CRD purchase equipment to clean up Elk and Beaver Lakes
It will help clear the blue-green algae in the lakes.
Several Vancouver Island municipalities endorse pause on recreational wolf hunting
The moratorium resolution was drafted by Oak Bay.
10 things that you should never flush down the drain
Some of them may surprise you! 😱
Despite objections and injunctions, blockades to protect the Old Growth at Fairy Creek remain...
Premier John Horgan and leaders representing the Pacheedaht Nation have expressed their objections.
Victoria’s single-use plastic bag bylaw now back in effect
Businesses can offer customers paper bags for no less than 25 cents or reusable bags for $2.
BC Supreme Court grants injunction for logging company to remove Fairy Creek protestors
Despite this, the road blockages continue.
BC residents will pay more for heat as carbon tax increases April 1st
There was no hike in cost last year due to the pandemic.
Vancouver Island trophy hunter denies killing wolf pack near Sooke
But admits she killed two “problematic” wolves
BC and Washington State work together to eradicate Asian giant hornets
Talk about a buzz!
Victoria-based company designs new camping fire-starter
"The Island is a perfect place for this."
Saanich residents rescue duck with plastic lid stuck around beak (VIDEO)
The incident points to a bigger litter problem in the area.
38 acres of greenspace near Jordie Lunn Bike Park donated to Langford
The new park could feature a rock-climbing area!
UVic to offer climate journalism teaching through $1.875 million donation
Applications for five-year professorship will open soon.
Here’s how you can get double your CleanBC Better Homes rebate
More time at home = more $$ in your pocket! 🤑
Barge sinks at Port McNeill dock on Christmas Day (PHOTOS)
A second barge also broke free and crashed onto the breakwater.
Province sets new emissions target for 2025 following CleanBC report
BC Green Leader Sonia Furstenau called CleanBC "an impartial road map."
Ditidaht First Nation and Parks Canada restore salmon streams on West Vancouver Island
Workers have seen up to 1,300 salmon in one day returning to the streams.
Sidney moves to protect more urban trees through bylaw changes
Several species have been added to the protected list.
New Greater Victoria wastewater treatment project goes online
The project cost $775 million across three levels of government.
‘Left to waste’: Three elk were found illegally killed near Lake Cowichan
The BCCOS called the incident "a senseless crime."
Campbell River angler fined for killing protected trout
Wild steelhead populations in the area are estimated in the low hundreds.
Victoria acquires rare Garry oak meadow, plans to turn it into new park
Garry oak ecosystems are endangered, with less than five per cent remaining in Canada.
University of Victoria students and artist to paint 14-foot mural protesting climate inaction
It's aimed at UVic's newly instated President.
BC NDP pledge $750K to clean up Elk and Beaver Lakes in Saanich
It should reduce the number of toxic algae bloom outbreaks.
These 6 single-use plastic items will be banned in Canada by the end of...
Today's announcement offers more details on the plan announced last year.
B.C. approves plastic bag ban bylaws for Victoria, other municipal governments
Victoria first introduced the bylaw in 2018, but it was quashed the year after.
Shawnigan Lake woman receives $345 fine after tampering with bear trap
The trap was set by the Conservation Officer Service.
Endangered orca that carried dead calf for 17 days gives birth to new healthy...
Tahlequah's new baby is "healthy and precocious."
28 new electric vehicle charging stations will be installed on Vancouver Island
Funded jointly by federal, provincial, and local governments.
Saanich plastic bag ban bylaw approved by provincial government
The bylaw will now be presented for final adoption at a council meeting
UVic votes to reduce short term investment in high carbon emitting companies
A student and faculty movement says it's a token measure that is nowhere near enough
Three more earthquakes hit the coast of Vancouver Island this afternoon
The last quake struck at 12:56 p.m.
Activist video shows infected blood still flowing into waters near Campbell River after two...
Scientists and activists alike are concerned about the potential spread of disease
Victoria climate activists plan protest to stop LNG on Black Friday
Demanding an end to fracking and extraction
Climate protesters rally outside Victoria Times Colonist building
It was an eventful Wednesday afternoon outside the Douglas Street building
Victoria protesters plan to erect “gallows” outside Times Colonist building tomorrow
To protest allegedly biased coverage of the climate crisis
Oak Bay residents find fliers on vehicles accusing them of contributing to climate crisis
"This handbill was left on your vehicle because your vehicle burns a lot of fuel."
Climate change denier loses adjunct professor status at University of Victoria (UPDATED)
Susan Crockford was an adjunct professor in the Anthropology department for 15 years
Canada’s federal political parties were just graded on their climate change policies
Guess who "did not attend science class"? 😬
These 5 companies were named the top plastic polluters in Canada (REPORT)
And the two most prolific polluters are the same as last year
BC Transit cancels 11 trips in Victoria on Monday evening
The transit advisory will end at 9:59 p.m. tonight
Climate activists will shut down Johnson Street bridge today as part of Canada-wide movement
This protest also coincides with the closure of Gorge Road between Tillicum and Harriet Roads
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Car and drugs seized during arrest of woman suspected of trafficking in Victoria
Police recovered quantities of cocaine consistent with drug trafficking, as well as suspected fentanyl and methamphetamine.
