The minimum piece-rates for farm workers who hand pick crops is increasing. Based on last year’s annual inflation rate, the B.C. government is raising the minimum piece rate for hand-harvest crops by 2.6 per cent. The changes will apply to 15 agricultural crops that need to be hand-harvested. These include: peaches, apricots, brussels sprouts, daffodils, […]

Special presents were handed out at Christmas Haven this year, specifically for children and youth, thanks to a local high school student who wanted to make a difference. Brooklyn Nicholson, a Grade 12 student at Westview Secondary School, handed out 144 special gift packs – 70 for teens and another 74 for children – at

Biologists from the University of Victoria discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive sounds, and they determined that it’s possible to differentiate between the sounds of different species. Using passive acoustics, researchers identified unique sounds for eight Vancouver Island fish species. They then developed a machine learning model that can predict

After responding to more than 61,000 calls in 2025, BC Hydro says some were anything but ordinary. On Tuesday (Dec. 30), BC Hydro released a list of its most memorable outages of the year, which included a rogue inflatable godzilla, a crow colliding with a transformer, noisy nature and two ospreys dropping fish onto power

Former Vancouver FC coach Afshin Ghotbi is suing the team owners, Six-Five Sports & Entertainment LP, saying he loaned the Langley-based Canadian Premier League (CPL) team $500,000 and they have not repaid him. In a Dec. 4 statement of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Ghotbi says he made the loan in July of 2023