Skye Ryan
Host and Reporter at CHEK-TV (Victoria, BC)
Skye Ryan is a Jack Webster Award winning reporter based on Mid Vancouver Island for CHEK News. A runner, horseback rider & most of all proud mama of two.
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4 days ago |
cheknews.ca | Skye Ryan
Concern is rising fast on the Cowichan River, as water levels drop. Days into June, snowpack levels in the area are sitting at just 35 per cent of normal for this time of year, and snowmelt is badly needed for the hot, dry months ahead. “This year, it’s dropped so fast it’s unbelievable. Never in my entire life have I ever seen a season like that ever,” Joe Saysell told CHEK News on the river outside his home Tuesday.
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1 week ago |
cheknews.ca | Skye Ryan
Emma Fenske and her one-year-old daughter, Mabel, are among thousands stranded by the Cowichan Transit Strike. “I can’t go to a grocery store. That’s one big thing,” said Fenske, who lives in Mesachie Lake. Fenske’s husband uses the family car to attend post-secondary in Nanaimo each day, so without the bus she is no longer able to leave their remote community with her daughter for play groups with other toddlers and young moms in Duncan.
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1 week ago |
cheknews.ca | Skye Ryan
Gaetan Brousseau pointed to a dusty Nanaimo construction zone Tuesday, where his downtown restaurant’s patio should have been opened up weeks ago. “The winter was difficult, so we need this thing to be done,” said Brousseau, owner of Melange Restaurant. The area outside Brousseau’s restaurant is part of the Commercial Street Improvement Project that is running over deadline. “That was the original plan, be ready for May long weekend. Obviously not.
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2 weeks ago |
cheknews.ca | Skye Ryan
A Parksville family returned home from camping Thursday, to find their home broken into and their children’s rooms looted. “Just pure shock,” 11-year-old Isaac Dutton told CHEK News on Friday. “I was pretty scared because I had a lot of stuff worth a lot of money in my room,” said 14-year-old Daelan Dutton. Watch the full report below:Their home on Parksville’s Riley Road was outfitted with security cameras. Those captured the thief breaking in, and sorting through the boys items.
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2 weeks ago |
cheknews.ca | Skye Ryan
The sister of a missing Nanaimo woman says she was an experienced sailor, and travelling the ocean on her boat the Gypsy Soul, that she disappeared on, was fulfilling a lifelong dream. “This boat was her home, I think it was everything to her. This has been incredibly difficult for our entire family,” Amy Nitchman told CHEK News on Thursday. According to her family, Amber Nitchman had sailed several times from Mexico to Canada, and was planning a third sailing trip to Mexico this fall.
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