The first Pride events of the season are happening on Vancouver Island this weekend — with street festivals, drag shows, and even a car wash. By the end of the summer, 2SLGBTQ+ folks will have celebrated Pride in nearly 20 island communities.

Finding community can be hard for deaf and hard of hearing students in classrooms — but an annual beach day in Greater Victoria provides a place to build friendships and a support network.

A B.C. driver has been arrested and charged after a homeless woman was struck while sleeping in a back alley in Campbell River, B.C., last November, police say.

Transit operators with Cowichan Valley Transit walked off the job at the beginning of February in a push for higher wages, halting regular bus services and limiting HandyDART rides to people with certain medical appointments.

Since U.S. President Donald Trump started threatening and imposing tariffs on Canada and travellers have reported being detained at the border, there's been a notable drop in visitors heading south in recent months, according to Statistics Canada. 

Royal Roads University's Langford location will be named John Horgan campus, after the late NDP premier.

Victoria firefighters are asking residents to stop having beach fires after crews were called to a difficult-to-access driftwood blaze along Dallas Road over the weekend. Their call comes as hot, dry weather moves in for much of the province.

A Nanaimo bar whose recipe called for butter equivalent to the weight of a baby elephant has been certified as the world's largest during an event in the British Columbia city that bears the sweet treat's name.

Lisa Rauch, 43, died after she was shot by plastic bullets during a police incident in Victoria, B.C., in 2019.

A stretch of culturally significant land in the Cowichan Valley has been returned to the Lyackson First Nation and the Cowichan Tribes communities.

Father-daughter team Michael and Heather Trask discover the fossilized bones of an ancient sea lizard near Courtenay, B.C., in 1988.

Historic buildings in Canada face logistical and cost challenges to becoming accessible to people with disabilities, including the B.C. Legislature. And advocates, along with current and former MLAs, say there's more B.C. should be doing.

A Vancouver Island man who was shot in the head by police during a 2023 arrest is also suing two RCMP officers who he alleges used excessive force on him while he was in the midst of a "medical crisis."

B.C. says nursing applications have more than doubled since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Police in Nanaimo, B.C., say a search is underway both at sea and on land after a woman's sailboat was discovered washed ashore and empty.

Amber Nitchman is the registered owner of a 10-metre white sailboat found empty on Thursday. RCMP say they have received many leads but still have no clear picture of what may have happened to the 34-year-old.

'Na̱mg̱is First Nation says it is 'deeply concerned' about the temperate-water Bryde's whale being found dead so far north.

For sweet tooths and challenge lovers alike, feast your eyes on a team of baking and culinary students from Vancouver Island University, as they set out to bring the world record for the largest Nanaimo bar back to its birthplace.

Several regions are already showing elevated threats but precipitation could change the equation.

Clear addresses on campus buildings, better training for campus security officers and updated protocols for B.C. Ambulance are among some of the jury's recommendations.

The public is advised to call 911 and back away slowly if they encounter the animal.