Rochelle Baker

First Nations from across Vancouver Island are gathering this week to celebrate and strengthen traditional food sovereignty and deepen Indigenous communities’ response to climate impacts and other emergencies.

Sharing traditional skills and knowledge was part of the menu at the recent Island Indigenous Food Gathering near Port Alberni.

The B.C. government is pairing up with agriculture groups in a bid to help ranchers and farmers prepare early as the province anticipates a second year of extreme drought as the climate crisis advances.

The Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation’s Gitdisdzu Lugyeks Marine Protected Area is getting international recognition but is being overlooked at home in Canada, falling victim to foot-dragging by the federal government.

Dozens of scientific experts and scores of students clambered over rocks and under logs, squelched in mud and tidal pools and dove into frigid water in a race to discover, photograph, collect and document thousands of species during the recent Quadra Island BioBlitz.

Cruise ships using dirty scrubber systems on Canada's West Coast spewed out nearly half of the 88 million tonnes of acidic wastewater and toxic metals generated and dumped into the ocean in 2022, new data sparked by a Stand.earth complaint shows.

The BC Green Party wants the province deal differently with drought to ensure farmers and the environment have priority access to water to flourish as climate change advances.

The dust in the Courtenay-Comox riding has yet to settle following the collapse of the BC United Party and if the right leaning vote will be split between two candidates.

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad is using First Nations as a "wedge issue", says Regional Chief Terry Teegee

Boaters can use a innovative new online tool to choose eco-friendly products and clean up their act when it comes to washing toxic chemicals into waterways and oceans while maintaining their vessels.