On July 24, faller Jeremy Tanaka was working on northern Vancouver Island when he was struck and killed by a falling hemlock tree. The tree had been accidentally uprooted by a piece of heavy equipment ...

Another 11 loggers and truckers died in the B.C. forest sector this year, the fourth consecutive annual increase. It is well below the 43 forestry workers that died on the job in 2005 — a death toll ...

William (Bill) Boardman of Sooke has been honoured with the Cary White Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Vancouver Island Forestry Safety Conference. The award acknowledges Boardman's ...