Skye Ryan

A disturbing rash of intentionally set brush fires around Port Alberni, has officials looking for a suspected arsonist in these tinder-dry conditions.

A walk on the beach turned into a once-in-a-lifetime experience for Michelle Robertson and a handful of Parksville onlookers on Tuesday.

After years of roadblocks, Shayla Day is driving an emergency homeless shelter forward in Oceanside. She says her life story is living proof the 39-year-old can conquer the near impossible.

The Nanaimo Clippers and their thousands of fans at home are holding on to hope and fighting for a win Friday night as they enter Game 5 in the BC Hockey League Final.

When a fire tore through Telegraph Cove in December 2024, burning up the wooden boardwalk and several buildings, it also destroyed the iconic ‘Telegraph Cove' sign that Fleming hand-painted 80 years ago.

A theft from a child in a small community south of Nanaimo is outraging neighbours and families there. It happened Monday morning in Extension, when just moments after the local school bus rolled out of the rural community, someone drove in and stole a boy's prized bike.

At 68, Port Alberni's Diljeet Hundal still chokes up with emotion, when he recalls becoming a paramedic.

Visiting a quiet cemetery outside Nanaimo is as close as Shauna Couwenberg will ever get to meeting her great-great-grandparents.

Duncan business owner Ashley Scott Horn says a growing number of unhoused people appearing on the city's streets in recent weeks has left her concerned about the changing situation in the downtown core.

Paul Fletcher walked into a usually lush Somenos Marsh Tuesday, but what he found was hardly recognizable. Large homeless camps have now cleared trees and native species to make room for living rough.