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Ashley Skeldoch may be travelling with a man who police say is known to be "extremely violent."

Nanaimo police searching for missing 24-year-old woman | CBC News Police in Nanaimo are asking the public for help finding 24-year-old Ashley Skeldoch, who has been missing since Tuesday.

"Based on what we learn from the very large releases [of radioactive water] that occurred when the [Fukushima nuclear plant] reactors first melted down in 2011, we don't expect that the additional radionuclides that will be added to the North Pacific ... will have any negative impact on our ecosystem here ... up and down the coast of British Columbia," said Jay Cullen, a University of Victoria professor of earth and ocean science.

Japan's discharge of radioactive water into Pacific Ocean unlikely to affect B.C., scientist says | CBC News University of Victoria ocean scientist Jay Cullen says Japan's discharge of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean won't have a negative effect on B.C.'s ecosystem, but Canada should keep monitoring radioactive isotopes in local waters.

On Vancouver Island’s west coast, First Nations are taking back control of stewardship and access in their traditional territories.

Parks and Reconciliation The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation’s lands and resources manager stops to scoop them with his bare hands into a moist, shady spot beneath the trail’s cedar boardwalk. He sighs.