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Our Community: Museum honours aviation pioneers

Our Community: Museum honours aviation pioneers

Join the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Aviation Museum as it inducts a distinguished sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ veteran of both world wars and a pioneering sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ helicopter firm into the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Aviation Hall of Fame at its open house on Saturday.
Global warming changing sea creatures’ gender

Global warming changing sea creatures’ gender

MIAMI — Sometime in mid-August, 400 baby alligators will hatch on the roof of a building at the University of North Florida.
Is the day of a Category 6 hurricane coming?

Is the day of a Category 6 hurricane coming?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — As a ferocious hurricane bears down on South Florida, water managers desperately lower canals in anticipation of more than a metre of rain.
Shiprider program aims to sniff out drug traffickers on the water

Shiprider program aims to sniff out drug traffickers on the water

The two high-powered speed boats meet in broad daylight near San Juan Island, just south of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½-U.S. border. Bags filled with millions of dollars worth of cocaine and methamphetamine are allegedly passed from the U.S.
Toadlets making perilous migration in Chilliwack

Toadlets making perilous migration in Chilliwack

It is one of the greatest, if tiniest, terrestrial migrations in North America, an estimated 100,000 western toadlets making their annual, overland trek from the pond of their birth in Chilliwack, across a farm pasture, and into a bordering forest.
Our Community: Donation opens doors for disabled

Our Community: Donation opens doors for disabled

The Pacific Blue Cross Health Foundation recently donated $10,000 to Move Adapted Fitness — a specialized fitness centre designed to maximize the health of people with physical disabilities.
Seeking answers after a violent death

Seeking answers after a violent death

Port Hardy family questions lack of transparency in investigations, including withholding of names
Our Community: Bowling for dollars — and fun

Our Community: Bowling for dollars — and fun

With summer settled in, it’s time again to enjoy those long, Lawn Summer Nights by lawn-bowling to raise money to battle cystic fibrosis.
HeroWork volunteers’ labours help to feed Mustard Seed

HeroWork volunteers’ labours help to feed Mustard Seed

HeroWork lives up to its name.
Vital People: Garden program growing on Tsartlip First Nation

Vital People: Garden program growing on Tsartlip First Nation

A food-security program started almost 20 years ago is bearing fruit for generations of participants. Access to food that is healthy, nourishing and culturally appropriate is the premise behind the Family Garden and Teaching Garden programs.