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Military exercises in BC generate noise pollution, impacting marine life. Kieran Cox advocates for proactive measures against noise pollution ...

A teenager from Lil’wat Nation will star in APTN’s Warrior Up!, a documentary series following Indigenous teens inspiring change in their communities. Host, Joel Ouelette, met with Talon Pascal for ...

BC's halibut stocks remain healthy due to meticulous management by Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the IPHC since 1923.

Twice a day, five times a week, 10 months of the year, Sointula mariner Danni Tribe moves one of BC’s most precious cargoes. As captain of the Spirit of Yalis, the 20-metre vessel that takes more than ...

The Ahousaht have a ‘voluntary stewardship fee’ for their territories, similar to a BC Parks’ day-use pass, to raise funds for conservation. “We want to continue our ancestral responsibility to ...

The Crofton mill, whose paper operations were recently curtailed, will now be receiving a $50 million upgrade that will put 100 employees back to work.

A new report released is shedding light on the long and gruesome history of BC fish farms and their hand in the deaths of marine wildlife.

Nanoose Bay resident Margot Mallicoat had a stroke of luck when she managed to reel in an enormous halibut weighing 44 pounds and measuring a meter long right from a dock.

The largest estuary restoration project to ever take place on Vancouver Island is currently underway, though not without controversy. The Cowichan Estuary restoration project intends to revitalize 70 ...

Madison Terbasket of the Similkameen Starbirds, centre, with Waverly Butler and Mikkeila Ridsdale, hoists the women’s division championship trophy following the team’s victory against “Vancouver’s” ...