13 hours A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread Communities in the U.S. West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, as a fast-moving blaze sparked by lightning sent people fleeing on fire-ringed roads in rural Idaho and a human-caused inferno forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes in northern California.
13 hours IWOW: Girls' firefighting camp teaches more than just how to put out fires It wasn't easy and it isn't easy being the only female career fighter in the Campbell River department, so Debra Rogers has made it her mission to increase the number of women doing the work.
14 hours Sooke wildfire not threatening region's water supply, but remains out of control The Old Man Lake wildfire near Sooke remains out of control, but there's good news for southern Vancouver Island when it comes to the region's water supply.
14 hours Nanaimo man saved after CHEK News viewer sees family's appeal for help on TV James Peakman had been missing since he walked out of NRGH on Tuesday. His family had followed a lead that he'd been seen near a Country Grocer store but couldn't find him so they called CHEK News.
15 hours Mother of man whose body was found in Oak Bay in 2023 pleads for information A year after Steven Middleton's body was found dumped in Oak Bay, his mother just wants to know what happened.
15 hours Court hears closing arguments in 'Freedom Convoy' organizer Pat King's criminal trial The criminal trial of a prominent organizer of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" heard final arguments Friday in a case that centres on the line between the right to protest and unlawful behaviour.
16 hours 'We removed over 100 feet of line': Crews disentangle whale from fishing gear near Comox A Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada crew was working late into the night to disentangle a humpback whale that was caught in recreational prawn gear near Comox on Thursday.
16 hours Turpel-Lafond won't sue CBC over Cree heritage report that took 'heavy toll': lawyer The lawyer for a former judge whose claims to be Cree were questioned in a CBC investigation says his client is not considering legal action against the broadcaster after the Law Society of British Columbia this week backed her claims of Indigenous heritage.