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It was a hard decision for Paul Bourke of Victoria to make, selling land he has owned for 40 years to the Cowichan Valley Regional District. “We used it for recreation — I never cut down a tree or branch of a tree,” Bourke, 67, said Sunday. The 15.

From the Victoria Police Department blog, posted by Sgt. Darrell Fairburn. ‘Dave” is a pseudonym, used to protect the identity of the person the story is about.

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was felt by some residents in Sandspit in Haida Gwaii on Sunday morning. The quake occurred at 7:37 a.m. in the Pacific, 108 kilometres southwest of Queen Charlotte City. There were no reports of damage.

He didn’t serenade her with I Want to Hold Your Hand, but Beatle George Harrison nonetheless had a soft spot for Sooke’s Jacqueline Davenport one night in the early 1960s.

A Vancouver Island hawk is the first raptor to join the list of species believed to spread Lyme disease.

The stakes will be higher than usual when Camosun College student Amina Majnon writes her final exams this April.

"Wake up,” I said. “It’s 3:45 a.m. The triplets are in the moguls final.” “They’re sisters, not triplets,” she mumbled. “I know,” I said, “but ‘triplets’ and ‘moguls’ makes it sound like a Hollywood scandal.” “It was yesterday,” she said.

Co-existence is the key to solving the deer issue in Oak Bay, says a group opposed to a plan to cull the animals.

Ship Point, the lower Wharf Street parking lot and the Belleville Terminal site are the three pillars of an improved Inner Harbour.