Islander

Award-winning journalist and golf historian Arv Olson served for 38 years as a sportswriter at the Vancouver Sun newspaper, where he was known as the “voice of golf.

Today’s Super Bowl has been 38 years in the making for the Island branch of Seahawks Nation.

CAMPBELL RIVER —A historic landmark on Campbell River’s waterfront that has been a target for graffiti is now being turned into a social media canvas. As part of the Campbell River Arts Council’s Cultural Mapping Project, artist J.

NANAIMO — The Haven Society is fundraising to bring a production to Nanaimo about a woman drugged with the date rape drug GHB.

GABRIOLA — Gabriola Island doctors say cancelling evening ferry sailings would put patient safety at risk and are calling upon the province to tweak its proposal for service cuts to the island.

A group of people from Gibsons calling itself FerryHostage.com has launched a campaign to try to hit B.C. Ferries “where it counts, at the till.” The B.C.

NANAIMO — A fisheries deadline is nearing for the removal of a 60-tonne derelict sailboat from its watery grave off Protection Island. The 40-year-old Valkyrian II hasn’t moved from where she sank near the Dingy Dock pub in October.

UCLUELET — Families packed Ucluelet’s Big Beach Park on a recent morning to experience the Wild Pacific Trail society’s new children-focused interactive displays.

It was 33 years ago when I last saw Glenn Lewis. As word reached me that he had arrived as senior artist-in-residence at Camosun College for the month of January, I went right over. Lewis is unchanged, except for lots of greying hair.

How a young nurse left Victoria for the Island's wild west coast