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Armaan Sohi saw a homeless man sitting on the sidewalk outside the Subway restaurant at Millstream Village holding a sign that said: “Homeless. Hungry. Anything helps.” “I gave him the money that was in my pocket,” said Armaan.

For years, Rob Johns has seen families watching their possessions go up in smoke.

Dawn Clouthier has struggled through abuse, addiction, HIV and now cancer, and still she manages to keep a positive attitude. “I like to lay my head on my pillow at night and ask myself what made me smile today.

Friday’s fast-melting snowfall in the capital region should be the last gasp of snow some time, which likely means a green Christmas. “St.

Let’s start with the assumption — and I may be going out on a limb here — that no one actually wants an oil spill, and that it’s in everyone’s interest to keep Alberta bitumen out of the waters off B.C.’s coast.

The first Christmas after her husband’s death was the hardest for Marjorie Fenwick. The Victoria woman’s husband, Wayne, died Oct. 24, 2006, after a brief battle with cancer, leaving her and two grown sons and their families.

A public memorial today will honour the lives of dozens of homeless people who died in Victoria this year — people such as Jim Shaw.

Businessman Wayne Strandlund has been elected as the next chancellor of Royal Roads University. The 66-year-old Strandlund will take office in January and succeeds J.

Bicycle tracks left in the snow helped Port Alberni RCMP find a suspect on Friday. Police responded about 5:10 a.m. to a call about a man on a bicycle checking vehicle doors.

The City of Victoria and the financially strapped Land Conservancy are embroiled in a legal tug of war over the heritage status of Abkhazi Garden.