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BC Hydro facing federal order, heavy fines for Site C sediment and erosion...
BC Hydro is facing a federal order as early as Friday and potential fines of up to $400,000 due to erosion and sediment problems at the $9-billion Site C dam project in the province’s northeast. The...
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Bear cubs that officer refused to shoot 'believed' to be hibernating on...
They dodged the B.C. government’s bullets, they generated headlines around the world, and now they are thought to be denning for the winter somewhere in the wilds of northern Vancouver Island. The...
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Federal agency chooses not to issue order against B.C. Hydro for Site C failings
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency decided Monday not to take further enforcement action against B.C. Hydro for sediment problems last year at the $9-billion Site C dam project. Nicolas...
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Haida Gwaii logging companies receive heavy fines for shoddy practices
Three companies have been fined a total of up to $2.2 million in Masset provincial court on 10 counts under the federal Fisheries Act related to logging practices resulting in “complete devastation”...
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B.C. guide outfitters rile NFL team, environmental group with bid to...
Bears matter. Everyone agrees on that. But when it comes to who owns the legal rights to those two words, the debate is extending from the wilderness hunting grounds of B.C. all the way to the playing...
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Guide outfitter says he paid heavy financial and personal price for wildlife...
A big-game guide outfitter and trophy hunter who faced a litany of charges in B.C. and Yukon says he paid a high financial and personal price over the years. “The biggest impact for me is what you guys...
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Planned LNG terminal in Delta would employ strongest safety measures to date...
Ships visiting a planned LNG terminal at Tilbury Island in Delta would employ two B.C. pilots and up to three tethered “high-power escort tugs” — the strongest such safety measures to date on the...
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Chilko Lake tourism operators appeal for help against 'nightmare’
Tourism operators at visually stunning Chilko Lake are appealing to governments to rescue them from a “nightmare” created by the landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision giving Tsilhqot’in aboriginals...
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B.C. aircraft crashes jump by almost 30 per cent in a year
B.C. has bucked the national trend by recording almost a 30-per-cent increase in aircraft accidents in 2016 over the previous year. The federal transportation safety board reports 54 accidents...
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Port to plant eelgrass gardens off Tsawwassen ferry terminal to benefit...
The Port of Vancouver is proposing to plant vast gardens of eelgrass on the ocean floor this year to benefit marine life ranging from fish to crabs near the Tsawwassen ferry terminal. The project would...
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New B.C. mariner's guide helps to reduce harm to whales and other cetaceans
A guide is now available to help mariners avoid collisions and disturbance involving whales and other cetaceans in B.C. coastal waters. Shipping is considered a leading threat to whales — not just from...
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Howe Sound ecology improving but remains under threat, Vancouver Aquarium...
Howe Sound remains vulnerable to development, shipping and fishing pressures despite impressive improvements in the region’s marine health in recent years, a report released Friday concluded. The...
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New snowshoe guidebook in stride with rise in sport's popularity
If you have snowshoed recently on Vancouver’s North Shore trails, especially on weekends, you know how busy they can be and how the sense of solitude and wilderness can be quickly lost. That’s why...
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Probe of Abbotsford police corruption allegations dropped, highlighting hole...
B.C.’s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner has dropped a probe of over 100 corruption allegations against 14 Abbotsford police officers, citing court decisions that blocked the office’s...
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Elusive male wolf 'captured' in lucky island encounter off Victoria
Nature photographer Nancy Brown-Schembri was just along for the ride. She had accompanied a boatload of birders with Victoria’s Eagle Wing Tours in hopes of capturing some interesting migratory...
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Climate change predicted to transform Vancouver into San Diego, but at a...
Goodbye Vancouver, hello San Diego. A major climate-change study predicts temperatures in Metro Vancouver will exceed those of present-day Southern California in the coming decades. Frost and ice will...
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Tug that ran aground in B.C. does same in Alaska, prompting coast guard rescue
The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued five people after the same American tug, the 31-metre Ocean Eagle, that ran aground on the B.C. coast just one year ago hit a reef in southeast Alaska. The coast guard...
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Backyard bird count shows B.C. has most diversity in Canada
B.C. boasts Canada’s greatest diversity of wintering birds, especially in the southwest of the province, according to a citizen-science survey conducted in backyards. A total of 2,227 British...
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Bumper harvest as herring return to Strait of Georgia in great numbers
FRENCH CREEK — The commercial roe-herring fishery opened with a flourish over the weekend as the gillnet fleet took its share of what the federal government predicts to be “near-historic” returns to...
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Seine roe-herring fishery opens with sinking of vessel, one crew member missing
STRAIT OF GEORGIA — The commercial seine roe-herring fishery opened Monday to disaster with the sinking of the vessel, Miss Cory, and a search underway for a missing crew member. Dan Bate, spokesman...
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