Health

10 years in crisis: BC’s opioid public health emergency enters new decade

343 Islanders killed by toxic drugs in 2025, lowest death toll in years

BC’s hospital crowding problem isn’t improving, data shows

Emergency room wait times: 86% increase in patients leaving ER without seeing a doctor

Royal Jubilee one of two BC hospitals offering new treatment for late-stage prostate cancer

Province ends treatment funding for terminally ill Langford girl

More overdose prevention sites likely coming to hospitals across BC

Looking back on nearly a decade of the toxic drug crisis in BC

Island's first long-term recovery centre for women opens in View Royal

British Columbians drinking less booze: UVic study

US decision to cancel international aid felt in Victoria's efforts in Africa

Mother of teen who died at UVic seeks BCEHS changes; coroner's inquest to be held in April

Private donors and private clinics re-shaping the health-care landscape in Victoria

CRD ponders pilot project: safety equipment on area beaches

Victoria councillors want Westshore to step up in unhoused, opioid issues

Turn out the lights, the pickleball is over on these North Saanich courts

Against her will

Young adult mental-health unit opens at Royal Jubilee

CRD has Island Health’s backing on its $1.2B Water Supply Master Plan

Check out Sidney’s new bike repair kit—a first for BC

Victoria has second highest wait times in Canada for walk-in clinics

Feds still not ready to approve mental illness as sole reason for MAID

Jubilee patients left at bus stop are caught up in a systems failure

Homeless Memorial Day vigil held in Victoria as report shows Island deaths rising to new highs

A chilling trend: Drug deaths rise as winter begins

What to do if you are helping a stranger who is overdosing

MLAs on hand to launch Bridging Care program at Royal Jubilee Hospital

Under shifting legislation, people who use drugs are caught between rules & risks

From the mouths of parents to the ears of babes

Oak Bay beach warning was due to record-level bacteria in test results

Inside Victoria’s escalating hospital staffing crisis

Cool Aid gets 2nd travelling health-care unit

BC is pushing to add thousands more nurses. But nurse educators say the field needs major change first

Paramedic shortages still plague rural Island communities, but some remedies may be in the works

A life diminished by the province's care

BC lifts health facility masking and care home visitor requirements, ending final COVID-19 restrictions on public

North Vancouver Island hospitals close overnight indefinitely

Victoria’s own ‘Car 87:’ New team of police and psychiatric nurse to answer mental health calls

One month after outbreak, Island Health reports another case of rare bacterial infection

‘Significantly over capacity’: Island hospitals overwhelmed amid silence and data gaps

BC incentives to recruit foreign and retired nurses welcome news amid crisis

More Victorians are getting their drugs checked before using

BC reconvenes emergency hospital meetings as beds fill up, but no preventative steps announced

‘One drink is the same mortality risk as one cigarette,’ UVic researcher says

Blood inventory low after winter storms, cold and flu season

Plans for new youth mental health program at Royal Jubilee Hospital veiled in secrecy

Text alerts about Island toxic drugs signals deepening crisis, but not an informative tool: experts

Victoria’s about to get a civilian mental health team. Here’s how the same project fared on the mainland

Indigenous advocates optimistic about new Victoria substance use treatment facility

Island Health quietly declares rare bacterial infection outbreak

BC hiring more support workers to help young people with substance use and mental health issues

Victoria non-profit rallies in Ottawa for better access to psilocybin

Island school absence and illness rates continue to rise, but province plans no further action

Victorians’ health and wellness on a steady decline over past three years: report

Some BC hospital patients left vulnerable without COVID, flu tests

Frontline healthcare workers deny BC’s claim that all patients tested for respiratory illness

Victoria drug checking project begins weekly training sessions

Kids' surgeries postponed as respiratory illnesses rise, but no mask mandate in BC

Victoria, Saanich health clinics begin charging monthly fees for doctor access

‘It’s unprecedented’: ER locum physician shocked to find Island hospital shut down during his shifts

Victoria teen dies of suspected overdose

Dumped at the bus stop: Royal Jubilee Hospital patients and employees say racial discrimination is harming people in need of care

From streets to hospitals: Victoria and BC groups work on fixes for mental health-care system

Death toll in Victoria’s toxic drug crisis continues to rise, with safe supply still missing

Family calls for overhaul of Royal Jubilee’s psychiatric emergency services and Mental Health Act

Victorians rally for safe supply, detox beds after two-week spike in toxic drug deaths

‘Near death experience’: Man left traumatized and evicted after Victoria Police mental health response

‘Tired of burying my friends’: Toxic drug deaths reach grim milestone in BC

Victoria peer mental health response team expected to hit the streets next month: CMHA

An inside look at Victoria walk-in clinics as province mulls new family doctor pay structure

‘It’s like a renoviction from a doctor’: Victoria doctor's monthly retainer raises questions of two-tier healthcare

Nearly 200 people left without long-term counselling, after VSAC cuts back services in February

Former Camosun and Sprott Shaw nursing students allege bullying, discrimination, and wrongful dismissals

Vancouver Island COVID-19 hospitalization rates on the rise, BC data shows

‘Not worth the hassle’: Out-of-province doctor details bureaucratic nightmare trying to work in Vancouver Island hospital

The age gap: Deaths exceed births in the Capital Region in 2021

Safe supply advocates, healthcare workers, and anti-vaccine demonstrators vie for attention as premiers meet in Victoria

Victoria hospitals, long COVID clinic brace for summer wave of COVID-19 reinfections

‘What they did was violent’: Witnesses decry VicPD treatment of mentally ill Black man

‘They were trying to figure out how to stay alive’: Disability advocates slam heatwave response

Vancouver Island is in a risk area for Lyme Disease. Here’s where the risk is highest.

Island UPCCs, PCNs, and CHCs are at just 39% of staffing goals—the lowest in BC

BC becomes first Canadian jurisdiction to decriminalize possessing small amounts of certain illicit drugs

Patients and nurses are feeling the squeeze of staffing shortages—but they don't feel free to talk about it

Libraries are open to all, but are library staff equipped to help everyone who comes through the doors?

RAD Recreation Adapted Society helps BC disabled people reach new heights in outdoor recreation

UPDATED: Greater Victoria hospitals considering hotels for patients as capacity limits reached

Westshore AVI substance use clinic set to merge with a community care centre

Victoria faces growing need for inhalation services at overdose prevention sites

'On the verge of mental and physical breakdown': why a growing number of Victoria nurses are quitting

Westshore drug users are suffering in silence: harm reduction worker

Vancouver Island is awash with Omicron. What are authorities doing to slow it?

'Double barrel crisis': Treatment for Greater Victoria adults with eating disorders cut back despite increased demand

Baby bust: Victorians are having fewer kids—if they're having kids at all. Here’s why we should care.

Canadian Blood Services may loosen rules on gay men. Where does that leave transgender donors?

A government agency was supposed to protect her finances. Instead, she was left ruined

Updates to Victoria emergency psychiatric care are insufficient, say teen advocates

BC’s surgery wait times are still rising, while a Victoria company says private facilities have a part to play

Isolated in Victoria: forging friendships in a city renowned for its chilliness

A couple fought for their right to marry 20 years ago. Now, Alzheimer's is a different kind of fight.