The provincial government has released its 2024 Climate Change Accountability Report, concluding that B.C. is making progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions - but not enough to meet the province’s 2030 target.

The report is based on emission data collected between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024. The province began setting reduced emissions goals in 2007 with hopes they could be achieved by finding ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions and building a low-carbon economy.

The territory of the Nuu-chah-nulth is vast, encompassing over 350 kilometres across the west coast of Vancouver Island. Within this region lies dozens of coastal communities – many of which are a considerable distance by boat or logging road from the closest medical facility.

“Constant, consistent access to care closer to home. You want to talk about my No. 1 issue? That would be it,” reflects Dr. Roger Boyer II in his first month as the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council’s manager of Community Health Services.

Staff and students were safely evacuated during an early morning fire at Alberni District Secondary School on May 8. The fire was spotted prior to the start of the school day.

The Port Alberni Fire Department along with the Sproat Lake Volunteer Fire Department, the Cherry Creek Fire Department and the Beaver Creek Volunteer Fire Department all responded to the structure fire.

Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks Guardian Gisele Maria Martin spotted the whale floating out in rough seas in front of the Esowista Peninsula on Monday and by Wednesday the magnificent creature had found its final resting place just south of Lovekin Rock on Long Beach in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

“The first thing we did was ceremony. We did a chant for the whale,” said Martin.

It got its start in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, filling a need that men in the rough streets so desperately need – a place of support, a place to connect to culture and a place of healing. Dudes Club has been bringing Indigenous men together starting in downtown Vancouver for 15 years.

Grant Barton, Dudes Club Society Executive Director, said that Indigenous people living in the Downtown Eastside come from all over and it is home to the most vulnerable people in Canada. The DTES is known for its homeless population and for people living in addiction.

Hammering chisels with rubber mallets, children helped hollow out a traditional Nuu-chah-nulth log drum at the spring Carving on the Edge Festival, which took place May 1 to 4 at the Tofino Community Hall in Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations territory. 

Tla-o-qui-aht artist Hjalmer Wenstob said the focus of the spring festival was all about coming together. 

“Our log drum is what we built the whole festival around. It was drop-in carving throughout the whole festival. Really, it’s just basically about learning about different tools,” said Wenstob.

Maria Clark opened the door to her home in the First Nations community of Ty-Histanis with a warm smile.

Caught on a day off as Tin Wis Resort’s assistant general manager, Clark was spending the day with her grandkids, family time she cherishes deeply.   

“Fortunately, a lot of young Indigenous women have come to me and said, ‘I like to see you speaking. I like to hear you speaking. I look up to you’,” says Clark.

“I feel like I am breaking barriers and creating space for Indigenous People. That is a good feeling,” she continues.

They were mothers, sisters, aunties, friends and they were taken too soon, but they are not forgotten. May 5th is Red Dress Day, a day to raise national awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S). It is a day to honor the memory of those lost, acknowledge the ongoing crisis of violence against Indigenous women, and call for justice and healing.

Changes have been brought to the province’s system of staking mineral claims, the result of a court case that determined the past process breached First Nations’ rights.

On March 26, 2025, the B.C. Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals introduced the Mineral Claims Consultation Framework (MCCF). This is in response to a 2023 B.C. Supreme Court ruling in Gitxaała vs. British Columbia, which established that First Nations need to be consulted at the time of claim staking.

A small Haida village is in mourning following death of 29-year-old Luke Pearson, who, according to the RCMP, died from his injuries after being hit by a vehicle. 

According to the Daajing Giids (Queen Charlotte) RCMP, they received a report of a pedestrian-involved collision in the 200 block of Front Street in Skidegate, a section of waterfront road near a cemetery. Police say a man was struck by a vehicle around 1:17 p.m. on April 22 and later died of his injuries.