4 months COVID-19 outbreak declared at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital A COVID-19 outbreak was declared at the largest hospital in the Mid-Island earlier this week.
7 months Novavax touts non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, hopeful to meet domestic production deadline The last remaining manufacturer to offer an alternative to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in Canada is hopeful it will meet the government's 2024 deadline to make the shots domestically.
7 months COVID outbreak declared at Victoria General Hospital, 11 cases confirmed An outbreak has been declared at the Victoria General Hospital after 11 health-care-acquired cases have been confirmed from one unit.
9 months Highest court refuses to hear appeal from B.C. churches opposed to COVID-19 ruling The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from three British Columbia churches that argued their constitutional rights were violated when provincial restrictions banned indoor religious services at the height of the[...]
1 year Removal of healthcare mask mandate violates right to equal participation: human rights commissioner B.C.'s Human Rights Commissioner says the healthcare mask mandate removal infringes on vulnerable people's rights to equal participation.
1 year Ottawa ends shipments of rapid COVID-19 tests as millions set to expire The federal government has stopped shipping rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to provinces as millions are set to expire within the year, and experts say the once-essential tool has lost its importance in the pandemic. There[...]
1 year Long-COVID clinic closing in Victoria as care transitions to virtual care Less than one year after the long-COVID clinic opened at Royal Jubilee Hospital, the province is closing it and moving three of the province's four clinics to virtual care. Island Health announced RJH's clinic would[...]
1 year COVID critic Mak Pahar had illness but died of drug overdose: B.C. coroner Parhar's death occurred soon after he shared a video online where he admitted to having COVID-like symptoms, but denied having "CONVID" and said he was treating himself with over-the-counter medications.
8 hours As northeastern B.C. burns, Vancouver Island's drought drama may play out later in the summer The wildfire season in northeastern B.C. is starting abnormally early, but on Vancouver Island, conditions are more encouraging for now.
8 hours Sayward council dysfunction continues with second councillor resignation Sayward council has had a second councillor resign this year amid dysfunction at the council table and changes among staff.
8 hours 'I was shocked': Wallet lost in Comox found more than three decades later A day fishing in Comox around 1991 resulted in a lost wallet, but a 14-year-old found the wallet doing the same thing decades later.
9 hours 'Human-caused fires are not malicious': Human-caused wildfires are preventable, but not necessarily intentional In the early spring, Coastal Fire Centre says almost all wildfires are human-caused, but that doesn't mean they were intentionally set.