Island Insider

Commercial fishers in southeast Alaska are netting large numbers of threatened B.C. salmon while most of Canada’s Pacific fleet is shorebound to save plummeting stocks, a new study indicates.

The Solid Carbon initiative aims to scrub vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air before pumping it into basalt reservoirs below the ocean floor, where it will transform into rock. 

Road and weather conditions will remain treacherous and cold — especially for remote communities with no power — before Vancouver Island returns to more typical mild temperatures over the weekend.

Multidisciplinary artist Carey Newman, the inaugural Impact Chair of Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria, shapes the concept of decolonization through art.

Legions of residents across southwestern B.C. and Vancouver Island are on a crusade to ensure resident Anna’s hummingbirds don’t perish with the unusually cold winter weather gripping the region the past few weeks.

Plastic waste from shellfish farms and other aquaculture operations, Styrofoam floats, and commercial fishing ropes and nets made up the bulk of the garbage collected on the shores of B.C's Discovery Islands.

The Cowichan Tribes reserve on Vancouver Island is one of the top five Indigenous communities across Canada identified as a hot spot of flood risk in a recent study.

A notorious West Coast poacher is banned from stepping aboard a fishing vessel for life after he was convicted of harvesting crabs under the cover of darkness and leading enforcement officers on a dangerous high-speed pursuit.

It's "unbelievable" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed to concretely acknowledge the overdose crisis, decriminalization or safe supply in the new addictions minister's mandate letter, say advocates.

Federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray is cutting the Pacific commercial herring fishing allocation to 10 per cent, down from 20 per cent last year, citing the need to protect the valuable forage fish and threatened salmon.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is revisiting new prawn fishing regulations that small harvesters say will give advantages to big companies exporting products overseas, create more plastic garbage, and will limit local consumers' access to fresh seafood caught by community fishers.  

NDP MPs are pressing Ottawa to take action to resolve the Indigenous housing crisis and also pass a "Right to Housing" bill for Canadians nationwide.

A Vancouver Island photographer has attracted 43,000 followers on social media by focusing on one curious, intelligent and often pesky member of the corvid family: crows.

A contingent of 30 "elders for old-growth" travelled down pitch black logging roads Thursday to stall road-building and the clear-cutting of forest giants near the Fairy Creek blockades.

At least 50,000 hectares of the at-risk forest identified by the province for logging deferrals — an area four times the size of Vancouver — is already approved for logging, has approvals pending or may already be cut down, says the Wilderness Committee.