Local News

A 71-year-old man was arrested in connection with a fatal shooting on a quiet Saanich street Tuesday morning after he called 911. Officers arrived at the two-storey home at 751 Cameo St. at 7:16 a.m. to find a woman dead in her bedroom.

“Will that be cash or on your credit card?” is not a question usually associated with property taxes, but in Langford it’s one residents soon will be able to consider.

There is a lot of worry among Victoria’s Ukrainian community as Ukraine faces the possibility of a wider conflict with Russia.

When Sidney resident Michael Bociurkiw arrived in Ukraine last week he was struck by the subdued, grey atmosphere of the usually colourful capital. “This is not the Kyiv I know,” said Bociurkiw, a social commentator.

Victoria’s Gordon Graham sat in the defending-champion’s chair Tuesday night for his second appearance on Jeopardy!, but he couldn’t pull off another win on the long-running American game show.

A second full day of searching Tuesday failed to turn up any sign of a 64-year-old man believed to have been aboard his floathome when it exploded and caught fire before sinking in a remote area near the mouth of Alberni Inlet.

Esquimalt has been rehearsal headquarters for classic rock band Yes as it prepares for a cross-Canada concert tour that starts tonight in Victoria.

Vancouver Island businesses are starting to feel the pinch from an ongoing truckers’ strike that has put a halt on goods coming from the port of Vancouver.

A 16-year-old male emu named Lucy that escaped from its south Nanaimo enclosure Sunday was “travelling hard and fast” toward the city’s downtown on Tuesday afternoon, said its worried owner.

It was March 27, 1964, when a huge earthquake off Alaska sent six tsunami waves roaring up the Alberni Inlet.