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Portions of the First Peoples Gallery at the Royal B.C. Museum reopened with updated language exhibits and a new splash of paint.

A B.C. man was paddling near Vancouver Island when an orca swam just metres from him.

A man came just metres from a whale while he was heading out to the ocean on his paddleboard off Vancouver Island near Jordan River.

A man came just metres from a whale while he was heading out to the ocean on his paddleboard off Vancouver Island near Jordan River.

DFO’s proposal to expand foraging areas for southern resident killer whales and close further areas to the chinook salmon fishery worries Port Renfrew.

DFO’s proposal to expand foraging areas for southern resident killer whales and close further areas to the chinook salmon fishery worries Port Renfrew.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ proposal to expand foraging zones for southern resident killer whales and close more areas to the chinook salmon fishery could have a “devastating” impact on Port Renfrew.

We like to think that the ocean is a vast and silent world but over the past decades, human or anthropogenic underwater radiated noise (URN) generated by oil tankers, commercial

Chevron Canada has relinquished the last of 227 oil and gas exploration permits that once blanketed B.C.’s coast to the federal government.

There won’t be any oil and gas drilling rigs off British Columbia’s coast — at least not in the near future.