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Nanaimo Regional Transit is the first transit system in B.C. to make the switch to compressed natural gas. The first 10 of 25 new CNG-powered buses were unveiled at the regional transit office Friday.

Braydon Luscombe has been to the Paralympics before, but it's going to be an entirely different experience this time around.

A Saanich student who painted a portrait of a 19th-century First Nations figure will be honoured at a ceremony in Toronto this week.

BIG COUNTRY: MLAs are enmeshed in an argument over preserving the number of up-country ridings. It’s a complicated wrangle over comparative populations, effective representation, fairness and the urban-rural split.

After close to seven months and over 6,500 kilometres of paddling, the Henry boys are back in town.

The Oscars are on tonight and I am all aflutter because, as you might have guessed, fashion is my life.

One person was in police custody after a suspicious fire Saturday morning. Victoria police and the Victoria Fire Department responded to reports of a balcony fire at an apartment at 2680 Prior St., near Hillside Avenue, just before noon.

A B.C. Supreme Court jury has been unable to reach a verdict in the case against a Victoria man charged with trying to hire an underage prostitute online.

There’s no two ways about it when it comes to making changes on Sidney’s Beacon Avenue. A proposed change that would have seen town’s main drag returned to a two-way street has been dismissed.