Saanich police are warning the public to remain alert after a black bear was spotted in a residential area Saturday.

Christopher Best told his family not to worry about the pictures of polar bears he was snapping and posting on social media as he worked at a radar site in Nunavut.

A passenger emergency Saturday evening, followed by severe weather Sunday morning has led to a stretch of sailing cancellations for the Port McNeill - Alert Bay - Sointula route.

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Emergency Info BC says there’s no tsunami threat to British Columbia after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake rumbled off the coast of Alaska on Sunday morning.

An expansion of the Village Way down to the ferry terminal could be in the pipeline as the RDN works to secure additional funding through grants for the project. 

Super Typhoon Fung-wong slammed ashore on Sunday in the northeastern coast of the Philippines, where the massive storm had already left at least two people dead and forced more than a million people to evacuate from flood- and landslide-prone areas, officials said.

This weekend’s hot ticket items features Island soloists and a cornerstone choir, a piano-led trio and a Canadian rock show by the Skydiggers.

A senior says he waited eight hours at a South Island emergency room, unable to move, without hospital staff checking on him.

Dozens of people gathered at the Victoria cenotaph Saturday morning to take part in an Indigenous Veterans Day ceremony.

Former Victoria Cougars, National Hockey League player and Ottawa Senators general manager, Mel Bridgman has died at the age of 70.

Nanaimo RCMP says emergency crisis management teams are responding to an armed individual in a residential neighbourhood near Terminal Avenue.

The City of Victoria is exploring designating the James Bay neighbourhood as a Heritage Conservation Area after Victoria's mayor spoke to council about the weighted responsibility carried by James Bay residents who play host to the city's major events due to its downtown proximity.

Holland Creek Trail will be temporarily closed while crews work to remove trees, brush and other elements that pose wildfire risks for the area.

Passengers are praising the pilot of a WestJet flight from YYJ bound for Cancun after the plane collided with a bird not long after take-off and required an emergency landing in Vancouver.

John Moses says that when his father Russell Moses returned on leave from the Korean War, his battles weren't over.

Weather warnings of strong winds hitting North Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii have expanded to heavy rainfall warnings in North Coast regions, says Environment Canada Saturday.

The Tŝilhqot’in National Government (TNG) is calling on governments to set the facts straight around Aboriginal title and to stop what TNG calls fear-mongering.

Katie Pasitney, whose mother co-owns the British Columbia ostrich farm where hundreds of the birds were shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, says she is focused on creating change for other farmers.

Harbour Air is running a new 19 passenger flight service from Vancouver to Tofino all winter.

When the fire alarm rings, Emma Entzminger doesn’t slide down the pole, she takes the stairs, saying it’s just as fast.

Eleven months after the original order came down, ostrich cull in Edgemont is complete and work to remove more than 300 carcasses from the Universal Ostrich Farm is now underway.

The province has ordered the clean-up of an unauthorized dumping site on Cowichan Tribes Reserve.

Every year on Nov. 8, Indigenous Veterans Day is recognized across Canada, and for a SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout) First Nation member, a son and nephew of Indigenous veterans, he utilizes this day to educate others.

Following concerns of escalating costs associated with B.C.'s main 911 dispatcher, a new report suggests E-Comm needs to tighten its governance structure and financial management, while the province needs to become more involved in emergency communication regulation.

An outpouring of grief is lighting a memorial to Rhys Edwards, night and day, outside of Nanaimo's Harewood Lacrosse box, where the 18-year-old loved to play.

Strong winds are expected to hit North Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii on Saturday late afternoon and into Sunday morning.

Victoria Police says a woman has been arrested and charged in connection with an assault of an employee who tried to intervene in a theft downtown.

Victoria council has voted to move forward with a 50 per cent reduction in the budget for hanging baskets in the city, while bringing other items back into the budget that will result in the property tax increase lifting by 0.55 per cent.

A Vancouver Island crime podcaster’s latest season shares new information about Bree Gamble, the woman whose body was found in Beacon Hill Park in 2021 and remains an unsolved homicide case with little information from authorities.

The Canada Border Services Agency says it has removed three people from the country as part of its work within the B.C. Extortion Task Force.

A company that says it is the biggest private landowner in the Cowichan Tribes' Aboriginal title area in Richmond, B.C., says it will ask the British Columbia Supreme Court to take the rare step of reopening the landmark case.

The City of Nanaimo is warning drivers to consider taking alternate routes as a year-long construction project kicks off along Third Street.

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An RCMP adjudicator has found three B.C constables failed to treat people with respect and courtesy when they posted racist, sexist and homophobic comments in a group chat with other officers and on police computer terminals.

Members of the British Columbia General Employees' Union have begun voting on the tentative agreement reached last month with the provincial government. 

The name of a founding member of the Hells Angels in Canada has appeared on a new tombstone showcasing the logo of the outlaw biker gang at a parish cemetery on Montreal's South Shore.

The City of Courtenay says its one step closer to completing the new East Courtenay Fire Hall after selecting the design firm Sahuri + Associates Architecture Inc. to contract the work.

A unique haunted house experience put on at the Comox Valley RCMP detachment is being called a success, after facing some controversy when it was first announced.

Prime Minister Mark Carney came close to telling a Bay Street audience today that he will secure a new pipeline for Alberta, offering his strongest endorsement yet of the idea.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called for removing obstacles to homebuilding and promoting market competition in a speech today offering his alternative to the Liberal budget tabled earlier this week.

A nine-year-old was one of the workers on a ride at a Port Hardy carnival last spring, at the time a woman fell out of the ride, suffering broken bones, a new report says.

CHEK News will be live at the B.C. legislature on Nov. 11 to broadcast and livestream the province’s 2025 Remembrance Day ceremony.

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RCMP says the Honda Civic that was driving nearby when a fatal crash occurred in Nanaimo this week has now been identified, and the investigation into what happened is still underway.

The minority Liberal government faces a second confidence vote on the budget today after surviving a vote on Thursday evening.

WorkSafeBC handed the B.C. government a nearly $760,000 fine for two incidents that occurred during the 2023 wildfire season, including one incident that was fatal.

Almost 100 days after it was discovered, the Wesley Ridge wildfire north of Cameron Lake has been declared out, leaving the Mount Underwood wildfire as the only active wildfire on Vancouver Island.

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Hockey Canada has unveiled its jerseys for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano and Cortina, Italy.