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Sangster Elementary School is getting back to normal with the completion of an 18-month, $2.1-million seismic refit that saw four classrooms, a number of key walls and a section of the roof made earthquake-ready.

A Grade 2 class project has raised awareness and more than $400 for a Victoria girl battling cancer. One month ago, seven-year-old Lola Ramesbottom went home with a small bag of coloured rubber elastic bracelets that she had made at school.

RISE AND WHINE — MLAs spent two hours last week debating the momentous change in the agenda the Liberals are trying out for the session — switching question period from the afternoon to the morning two days a week.

The Capital Regional District has agreed to pay $180,000 for a First Nations re-burial ground in Beacon Hill Park.

A pair of Good Samaritans and other witnesses are being sought after an alleged robbery just after 5 p.m. Friday in downtown Victoria.

“Oh my God, look at my eyes,” Lorena Rose said as she looked into a mirror after a makeup session Friday.

René Soto, an Oaklands Elementary school student fighting cancer, spends more time in a hospital than any eight-year-old should. But that hasn’t quelled his dream of being a racecar driver or a soccer player, like his father.

Kara Smith was nervous at first, hearing a class of big- city kids from Vancouver would be visiting her tiny Island First Nation for three days. “Then I got excited,” said 11-year-old Kara.

Colwood businessman Ralph Bartholomew Kelly was convicted Friday of four counts of fraud and three counts of theft from two Greater Victoria men. After a four-week trial in B.C.

A Victoria mother and animal lover was struck and killed in the road in front of her house in Langford on Thursday as she tried to save her dog.