Todd Coyne

Mounties in Port McNeill are calling the fire suspicious, saying the blaze “appears to have been a deliberate act with the apparent intent to destroy the town’s prized point of interest.”

One driver was taken to hospital and another is facing a charge of driving without due care and attention after a two-vehicle crash near Victoria on Monday.

A wildfire that has been burning out of control on Vancouver Island since Sunday morning is now estimated to cover approximately 20 hectares of dense forest near Port Alberni.

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, was hospitalized last week due to what her husband describes as fatigue, overwork and stress, according to a weekly update to her constituents.

Vancouver Island’s only highway to the western communities of Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet reopened Monday morning after high winds forced it to close Sunday afternoon.

A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after he reportedly barricaded himself inside a condominium complex in Campbell River and threatened to kill police.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is vacationing with his family on Vancouver Island this week. The prime minister's plane landed at Tofino-Long Beach Airport just before 11:30 a.m. Thursday.

More closures are coming to Highway 4, the only highway to the western Vancouver Island communities of Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet, as the province announced a delayed timeline for a full reopening Monday.

A former Vancouver Island gym teacher has permanently lost his teaching certificate after he started an intimate relationship with a vulnerable 15-year-old student and began dating the student shortly after graduation.

Saanich police are investigating after a student was sexually assaulted inside a washroom on the University of Victoria campus.