Salt Spring Island

• Search called off for missing boater off Salt Spring Island

  Crews launched a search around 5 p.m. Wednesday, after a small boat was found with its motor running in Long Harbour, but nobody aboard.

  Canada

  Jul 13, 2023
  
• Quebec man at large in B.C., wanted on child pornography charges: RCMP

  Salt Spring Island RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance in finding 39-year-old Jimmy Pieschke.

  Crime

  Feb 11, 2023
  
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• Community ‘collapsing’ say some Salt Spring Islanders, in appeal for vacancy tax

  Faced with a housing crisis, some island residents are angry the province didn't include the community when it expanded the area covered by its empty homes tax last week.

  Canada

  Jul 28, 2022
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• Students and crew safe after engine fire on school boat off Vancouver Island

  A spokesman with the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria says crew members on board the vessel were able to put out the fire Thursday morning.

  Fire

  Jan 27, 2022
• Residents cautioned after wastewater spill on Salt Spring Island

  Health advisory signs will remain in place until environmental sample results indicate there is no public health risk, the Capital Regional District said.

  Environment

  Jan 3, 2022
• ‘Come prepared, bring water’: B.C.’s Gulf Islands suffering drought-like conditions

  Luckham said visitors to the islands will see a lot of messaging around water conservation.

  Canada

  Jul 14, 2021
• Tragic end to search for missing UBC professor on Salt Spring Island

  Police and Search and Rescue began a search for Sinikka Gay Elliott on Wednesday, May 12, the day that she was reported missing. She had left her home to run errands.

  Canada

  May 14, 2021
• B.C.’s lakes and rivers prove deadly for international students

  In the last 15 years, one dozen foreign nationals aged 25 and under have drowned in B.C.

  News

  Aug 2, 2020
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• ‘A selfish act’: Woman ambushed by estranged husband in Salt Spring murder-suicide, says family

  "It was a selfish act by a coward and bully and committed in the most cruel and pre-meditated way," reads a statement from the victim's family.

  Jun 7, 2020
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• Man and woman dead following ‘serious incident’ at Salt Spring Island home

  Police were called to a home on Fulford Ganges Road just before 5 p.m. Monday.

  Crime

  Jun 2, 2020