A humpback whale, nicknamed Astroboy, was untangled from 140 metres of rope off Vancouver Island on Oct. 22. The rescue team managed to attach a satellite tag to the fishing gear and the drag of the ...

The captain of a fishing vessel has been fined $40,000 for setting prawn traps in a protected glass sponge reef area near West Vancouver. On Friday, O Van Nguyen was handed the penalty in North ...

Even with the cool, wet conditions of early fall, there were still six wildfires burning on Vancouver Island this past week. That isn’t overly unusual, said Coastal Fire Centre information officer ...

As far as home tours go, a look around April Lushaw’s residence doesn’t take long. Lushaw lives in Sidney, B.C., a quiet seaside community of about 12,000 residents 30 kilometres north of Victoria.

Long before tourism defined Florida’s west coast, anglers were drawn to Boca Grande for one main reason: tarpon. That maritime heritage holds strong, but there are many reasons to visit this pocket of ...

A 582-pound blue marlin, one of the largest caught in San Diego waters, was hooked last month and taken to — what else? — the Marlin Club on Shelter Island. The big fish was caught Oct. 23 by Sean ...

SOOKE - Police on Vancouver Island say they’re investigating the shooting of two dogs over the weekend. RCMP in Sooke, west of Victoria, say one of the dogs died and the other was taken to a local ...

Part of the former Emily Carr campus on Granville Island has been vacant since the university of art and design moved to the False Creek flats in 2017. “What we want to see with the building is what ...

RCMP logo shown in Edmonton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. The Mounties say they're investigating the shooting of two dogs near Sooke, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson SOOKE — Police on Vancouver ...

Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests Thursday in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base.