As of Sunday, August 1st, there will be a 75% cutback in the number of paramedics available to the Cortes Island Ambulance Service.
In fact, there won’t be any paramedics available on August 1st, or for 24 of the 62 shifts that month.
Continue reading 75% cut to Cortes Island Ambulance ServiceNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Federal scientists and the Canadian Coast Guard have joined the flurry of scientific activity around the site of a massive landslide late last year in the Bute Inlet watershed on B.C.’s isolated central coast.
Continue reading Surveying impacts of the Bute Inlet slideBy Quinn Bender, Prince Rupert Northern View, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Canadian Coast Guard has established a first-of-its-kind division to elevate safeguards against human-caused deaths and injuries to whales in B.C. waters.
Continue reading Coast Guard ramps up protection for whalesCanada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Marine mammal rescue groups are frantically mobilizing to try to save three entangled humpback whales in B.C. waters.
Continue reading Saving Three entangled Humpback WhalesTwo more abandoned derelict vessels washed up in Cortes Bay on January 15th, 2020. When Jenny Hartwick, Harbour Manager for Harbour Authority Cortes Island (HACI), reported them to the Coast Guard, she was told they were dealing with similar reports from multiple locations. Cortes Island’s adrift vessels are part of a province wide problem.
Continue reading Cortes Island’s Adrift Vessels
