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A Victoria man charged with trying to hire an underage prostitute online will find out by March 12 whether the Crown will proceed to a third trial. On Saturday, a B.C.

Finish your computer session, power down and it’s over, right? Not even close.

Esquimalt-based navy ship HMCS Protecteur is being towed to port after being stranded for nearly two days in open waters northeast of Hawaii following a fire that ripped through its engine room and injured about 20 sailors.

A Campbell River whale watching captain has been fined $6,000 and banned from the industry for 10 years after once again getting too close to a pod of killer whales. Jason Allan Smith was found guilty in Campbell River Provincial Court on Jan.

A Sooke woman will appear in court today charged with aggravated assault after a stabbing on the Beecher Bay First Nations reserve early Friday morning. Sooke RCMP got a call Friday around 10:25 a.m.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld the province’s drunk-driving law that allows police to issue automatic roadside driving suspensions.

Victoria police are looking for a 39-year-old woman who disappeared from her home Saturday night. Nantli Quintana Zaldivar, originally from Ontario, had come to Victoria about a week ago to visit family, said police spokesman Bowen Osoko.

A guest at the Days Inn on Belleville Street is lucky to be alive after he was pulled from a burning hotel room by quick-thinking staff. Just before 6 p.m.

The race to replace B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix in September has its first official contender.

Shellfish growers behind a revised aquaculture plan covering 81 hectares along northern Union Bay say now is the time to experiment with farming a variety of sea creatures underwater as one scallop producer blames ocean acidity for the loss of $10 mi