Community advocates assisting folks who are homeless are overjoyed a cold weather shelter has been established in the city of Parksville on Vancouver Island.

Researcher Thierry Chopin has been pitching the ecological, economic and social benefits of farming seaweed and salmon together since the late 1990s. But, there won't be adoption of co-cultivation in salmon farming until there is regulatory change and financial incentive, he says.

Klahoose Nation Chief Kevin Peacey said he was relieved when the small community’s promised second doses arrived, if a week later than originally planned.

The Strathcona Regional District board has decided not to pursue allegations of inside influence and the disqualification of the Cortes Island director Noba Anderson in court.

Permanent, affordable rental housing on B.C.'s Cortes Island is scarce, so many residents rent recreational properties on a temporary basis.

Leslie McBain of Moms Stop the Harm, an advocacy group of thousands of mothers who have lost children to toxic drugs, said the province needs to go beyond taking incremental steps to deal with the health crisis.

Homelessness in the region made headlines in November after three people were killed and one was shot and injured near Whiskey Creek, one of the numerous homeless encampments surrounding the two municipalities.

Small rural communities on Vancouver Island are under strain and individual and community health is at risk with the continued lack of intercity bus service on Vancouver Island, service providers say.

The eroding social licence in B.C. to hunt large predators for sport rather than sustenance threatens public support for the majority of hunters, most of whom don’t endorse trophy hunting, said Chris Darimont, lead author of a new study on the issue.

The Strathcona Regional District is considering whether to continue to pursue the allegations in B.C. Supreme Court and potentially disqualify Noba Anderson from office.