Nitinat River News Today

Fifty-one wildfires were burning on Vancouver Island on Wednesday afternoon, many of them resulting from lightning last week.

“We take so little of the [overall] catch, but they have to take a swing at somebody.” For the third year in a row, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has ordered fishery closures and strict regulations for whale watchers and other vessels to protect the critically endangered southern resident population of orcas, whose ­numbers remain low at 75 in three pods. The measures focus on the main threats to the orcas, aiming to protect access to chinook salmon stocks and limit acoustic an...