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After a wicked windstorm overnight, thousands of B.C. Hydro customers were without power on Thursday morning. B.C.

Victoria police are looking for the man who pepper-sprayed a man and a woman during an argument outside Rock Bay Landing on Ellice Street. Police were called to the drop-in shelter Wednesday around 10:30 p.m.

Ski lifts started spinning at 9 a.m. today at Mount Washington after snowfall of more than 67 centimetres Wednesday. More snow this weekend is expected to keep the resort open until spring.

River Forecast Centre concerned about effects on fish

A 48-year-old Langford woman died after being hit by a car while crossing Goldstream Avenue in Langford Thursday. About 8:20 a.m., West Shore RCMP, Langford Fire and B.C.

Vancouver Island’s ski season is back on track after a heavy snowfall on Mount Washington. The Mount Washington ski resort closed in late January after just 14 days of operations due to lack of snow.

The former president of Babe’s Honey Farm appeared in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday and was granted an adjournment of his fraud trial until March 19. Ernest Mark Pitcher of Pitcher & Associates Public Accountants Inc.

Another Victoria family needs help. René Soto is an eight-year-old Oaklands Elementary School student who spent most of a year at B.C. Children’s Hospital after being diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2010. He has now relapsed for a second time.

Four generations of a family are homeless and separated after fire ravaged their house on the Pauquachin First Nation in North Saanich.

This has been a week — a month, a year — for contemplating the miracle, and the fragility, of life.