Saanich Peninsula hereditary chiefs are denouncing a federal decision to expand herring fishing in B.C. waters, warning it threatens already declining stocks and the broader marine ecosystem. Despite ...

The Bureau of Meteorology has developed the National Aquifer Framework for naming and grouping hydrogeologic units from across Australia to address these jurisdictional differences. The framework is ...

A plan to turn six residential lots off McKenzie Avenue into a 122-unit housing complex moved forward this week, after Saanich council gave thumbs up to a development permit and rezoning bylaw.

The District of Saanich will go ahead with an alternative approval process to get a green light from residents to borrow more than $9.6 million for five infrastructure projects. Council voted ...

While studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range north of the California border, Oregon scientists recently discovered something they did not expect: an aquifer containing much more ...

Researchers have long known there was some kind of aquifer in the Cascade Mountains that feeds rivers like the McKenzie and the Deschutes. But they never knew just how big it might be — until ...

The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades — possibly the largest aquifer of its kind in the U.S., according to researchers at the ...

Residents of South Australia's Eyre Peninsula could face extreme water shortages and restrictions unless a water source is established as an alternative to existing underground aquifers that could ...