Maryse Zeidler

Five key non-profit arts organizations in Campbell River, B.C., presented to council Tuesday on how they can become less reliant on municipal funds — a request that council put in place before it agrees to renew the groups' subsidized leases. 

City councillors in Nanaimo, B.C., failed to pass a motion to provide a letter of support for a proposed community health centre that would connect up to 2,700 people with a primary health provider, citing concerns about an overload of social services in the city's south end.

Students and instructors at North Island College's campus in Courtenay, B.C., are grieving the death of a student who died of a brain injury following a collision with a cyclist on the night of Sept. 16. 

A company based on central Vancouver Island has been reprimanded after its articulated rock truck and driver fell into Nitinaht Lake — an incident that was captured in a stunning video that has gone viral on social media.

British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service (COS) says a grizzly bear on an island off the Sunshine Coast has been shot and killed. 

The strike, which began on Feb. 8 and is the longest transit contract dispute in the province's history, affects about 50 regular and HandyDART bus drivers, maintenance workers and cleaners in the region north of Victoria. 

Const. Sam Zacharias with the Port Moody Police Department said several 911 calls came in about the assault, which allegedly took place at Rocky Point Plaza shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday night. 

CBC was recently offered a sneak peek of the building as part of a special live broadcast of The Early Edition on Friday, Feb. 7, which will also highlight the Squamish Nation's culture, community, and ongoing initiatives.

A woman in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island wants to warn others about an online phishing scam on Facebook Marketplace after a sale that was supposed to earn her $40 cost her $1,250 instead. 

The hereditary chiefs of the Liǧʷiłdaxʷ nations say they are "disappointed," "frustrated" and "appalled" by remarks made by a Campbell River councillor as the city discusses restoring three place names to their original Indigenous titles.