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For most British Columbians, 2014 is going to cost more.

His teacher pushed him on stage for a talent show in elementary school and Jason Verners has been chasing the spotlight ever since.

A robber, who in an attempt to go back to prison held up the same bank he robbed five years earlier, will not have his jail sentence increased. The B.C.

All Christmas shopping can be done in the Chevron Town Pantry on Dec. 24. This you explained to her one year as she unwrapped the jug of windshield wiper fluid on Christmas morning. “You didn’t need to spend all that time in the mall,” you said.

A Greater Victoria man has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing at a party in Saanich on New Year’s Eve.

The union representing education assistants and other inside support staff in the Greater Victoria school district remains without a contract heading into the new year.

Victoria police communications staff were frustrated Thursday after being overloaded with a spate of abandoned 911 calls from the same cellular phone.

The search continues today for a 59-year-old woman believed to be missing in East Sooke Regional Park, with an estimated 50 volunteers from several Island communities involved. Nothing had turned up by early afternoon, said Sooke RCMP Staff Sgt.

Sounds of things falling from the roof and the thick smell of smoke prompted Kara Myrfield and two other residents to flee before their Empire Street home became engulfed in flames Friday afternoon. Myrfield said it was about 12:30 p.m.

A Greater Victoria man is dead after suffering a heart attack while driving. The man, 56, was driving at a slow speed in traffic at Tillicum and Craigflower roads, when police believe he began having a heart attack.