Wei Wai Kum First Nation is charting a new course as the majority owner of one of Vancouver Island’s largest new power sources following decades of exclusion from energy projects in their own ...

Japanese women going to work at the Kimsquit cannery, BC. Photo credit: Harlan Ingersoll Smith The first shift begins on a dirt path. The women walk toward the cannery at Kimsquit Inlet, aprons tied ...

On the morning of Monday, Sept. 15, James Smith begrudgingly got out of bed to get ready for the day. The weekend, he told The Narwhal, had been hell. “Even this morning, it was like 75 to 80 decibels ...

Whale researcher Janie Wray vividly remembers the first time she saw humpbacks bubble-net feeding on the northern BC coast more than 20 years ago. First, the mournful calls begin at depth, followed by ...

The BC Supreme Court has set aside the transfer of a major forest licence in northwestern BC after ruling the province failed to properly consult to arrange a fair deal. The province granted the ...

Bernice Davidson made people laugh. “There is always laughter when Bernice is around. I would come home from work and there would be laughter coming out of our house, she would have a friend or two ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney talks to reporters after a meeting with local ironworkers in Calgary on November 27, following the signing of an MOU on energy and pipeline cooperation with Alberta Premier ...

You get used to it,” says Captain Dylan Fowler, speaking from Port Hardy. “Around here, in the winter, a gale warning is just… a normal day.” ...

Stan is one of the last remaining contracted creekwalkers in BC – he estimates from north Vancouver Island to Prince Rupert, there are only five left. Photo Credit: Roland Gockel. Stan Hutchings is ...

Hesquiaht fights through tough bracket to finish second behind Similkameen, while earning Most Sportsmanlike Team award.

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Just six corporations controlled 26 percent of all B.C. fishing licences in 2019, according to research presented at last week’s Fisheries for Communities Conference. “The value of fish caught should ...