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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.

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Essential services order gives strikers little traction: experts

Former neighbours of man who hacked parents to death unsettled by news he's now free

In a voice barely above a whisper, a man the Crown wants declared a dangerous offender stood in Victoria provincial court yesterday and apologized to the victims of his violent carjacking spree two years ago.

Shutdown forces some victims to travel to Vancouver for help