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A provincial task force has been struck to look at modernizing B.C.'s election rules. The task force's mandate will include examining disclosure requirements and improving fairness, transparency and public participation.

Andrew Charles convicted of drunk driving

Opening hours for the Royal B.C. Museum and the adjacent B.C. Archives have been reduced as part of cost-cutting efforts amid budget constraints. Beginning Oct. 13, the museum will open an hour later, at 10 a.m., seven days a week.

Francis Rattenbury, the man behind the provincial legislature, The Empress and other well-known Victoria buildings, never had formal training as an architect.

This year's 'affordability index' is up 3.8 per cent from 2008

Incident shows dangers of oil tankers in northern waters, First Nations say

You work in policing, you see the darker side of life a lot of the time. If you let it, it gets to you after a while, makes a person think the world really is an unpleasant place. But Victoria Const.

A Vancouver Island woman was elected yesterday as regional chief for the B.C. Assembly of First Nations. Jody Wilson Raybould, 38, a councillor from the We Wai Kai First Nation of Cape Mudge Village and a commissioner with the B.C.

Visitors raved about Treasures but 228,000 not enough to turn profit

A proposed permanent needle-exchange site in Victoria has received a thumbs down from junkies, who say the area is too dangerous and too far from downtown.