Author Archives: Bill Nation

In the late evening of last Tuesday and early morning hours of Wednesday, during the heavy snow fall, police were called to help locate a distraught man who was confused and believed men were chasing ...

They were supposed to last about 40 years. Instead, they lasted about 71 years. With their service now complete as of last fall, the three 3.66 metre in diameter and 1.1 km long woodstave penstocks wi...

The province's police watchdog is investigating a head-on crash in Nanaimo that claimed the lives of both drivers. The Independent Investigations Office has been called in because an R-C-M-P officer a...

The Powell River Salmon Society says vandals broke into its Duck Lake hatchery over the winter holidays and turned off water to part of the system, killing 700-thousand newly hatched chum salmon. Hatc...

The head of the Assembly of First Nations says the use of force against Indigenous pipeline protesters in northern B-C is a violation of their human and aboriginal rights. Fourteen members of a clan o...

A University of Victoria and Environment Canada study says human influences on climate change played a major role in B-C's record wildfire season in 2017. The study says key factors in the record fire...

Indigenous protesters blocking access to a planned pipeline in northern B-C say they're anticipating action by the R-C-M-P to enforce to an injunction filed against them. TransCanada says it has signe...

The Comox Valley Regional District, in conjunction with Island Health, has issued a boil water notice effective immediately. All users of the Comox Valley water system are instructed to boil their dri...

The avalanche danger in the mountains on B.C.'s south coast, the Sea to Sky region and in Alberta's Jasper National Park is rated as extreme. The warning from Avalanche Canada says storms on Thursday ...

I-C-B-C has received interim approval from the B-C Utilities Commission for a 6.3 per cent hike in basic insurance rates. The public auto insurer says the new rates will apply to new and renewed polic...