Paramedics say a pedestrian was taken to hospital in stable condition following a crash in Port Alberni on Tuesday morning.

The Nanaimo RCMP requests the public’s assistance locating 37-year-old Michael Rubin. 

Esquimalt is considering what the future of short-term rentals will look like in the township, and is asking residents to weigh in.

Two people were taken to hospital, one by air ambulance, after a violent crash near the Duncan courthouse Sunday night.

British Columbia is launching an independent review into its public post-secondary education system as enrolment drops and inflation rises. 

BC Ferries will give four of its upcoming Island Class hybrid-electric vessels names gifted by three coastal First Nations – Snuneymuxw, We Wai Kai and Wei Wai Kum.

Elections Alberta says it has approved recall petitions against five more members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus, bringing the total to 14.

A humpback whale tangled in fishing gear near the San Juan Islands is believed to be swimming freely again after a quick cross-border rescue effort that included U.S. and Canadian authorities.

The co-founder of a Vancouver “compassion club” that bought heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine so it could be tested and sold to save lives said he wanted to stop the dangerous street drugs from killing people.

The Victoria Santa Claus Parade is returning for its 43rd year this weekend, and CHEK News will be broadcasting and livestreaming the event.

The back and forth between levels of government continues, as an unauthorized dump on Cowichan Tribes land remains an environmental threat to the Cowichan River.

The Village of Sayward has launched an emergency operation centre after a landslide prompted concerns about the local water treatment plant.

Port Alberni council has voted unanimously to extend the Salvation Army's temporary use permit for the Bread of Life Centre, securing three more years of soup kitchen and shelter services that many residents say are essential to the community.

Mount Cain Alpine Park is doubling the age that kids can ski for free at its skill hill in northern Vancouver Island.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said on Monday the government is getting close to being able to provide clarity on whether Ottawa would repeal the West Coast oil tanker ban.

Ottawa and the provinces have raked in more than $5.4 billion in cannabis tax revenue since the drug was legalized for recreational use in October 2018.

The lawsuit calling the City of Victoria’s incremental restriction of sheltering in parks illegal, was heard for the first time in a Victoria courtroom today. The petition, filed in October of 2024, argues the city ignored the realities of homelessness in Victoria, violated charter and international rights, and was procedurally unfair. "This case is about a municipality exercising its power in a way that puts people’s lives at risk, without the facts, without the analysis, and without the care, that we say, the law requires," the petitioner's lawyer Alexander Kirby told the courtroom today .

The BC Conservation Office Service (BCCOS) says it captured a grizzly bear in Bella Coola days after a devastating attack, but the service says "evidence is not conclusive" that it was involved in the attack.

New details are being revealed about the deadly workplace incident that took two lives in Chemainus Friday.

The federal government and Alberta have reportedly inked a framework deal to allow for an oil pipeline to B.C.’s coast.

Conservation officers say two grizzly bears have been captured in Bella Coola on British Columbia's central coast, and DNA tests are being conducted on one of them to determine if it was involved in last week's attack on a group of students and teachers. The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says the other captured bear has already been assessed and because any link to the attack is "not conclusive" it will be fitted with a GPS collar and relocated. The officers have been comparing evidence from the attack scene, 700 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, with evidence analyzed from the two bears that were caught on Monday.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is continuing to issue recalls for pistachios as it investigates a salmonella contamination, with over 80 products being recalled.

Campbell River has plans for a site it recently acquired that is next to the Big Rock boat ramp.

A British Columbia woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in what police are calling a "major milestone" in their efforts against organized crime in Canada.

A chimney fire that spread to the roof of a home in Willis Point caused major damage early Monday morning.