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Someone forgot to tell the whales around Victoria and the San Juan Islands that this is their off-season.

The technical green light given Thursday to the Northern Gateway pipeline sets the stage for the biggest B.C. political decision of the 21st century to date.

Muddied and covered in cow dung, grandfather Richard Jerman was building a fence on a farm on Penelakut Island, where he has lived for 37 years, when border officials came for him.

Victoria police are concerned about a 40-year-old man with mental-health issues who has been missing since Sunday.

A boarded-up Douglas Street residential hotel is facing foreclosure, leaving the lone tenant, who has gone without heat and hot water for months, in limbo.

Times Colonist reporter Katie DeRosa has won an Amnesty International Canada media award for her series on Canada’s human smuggling reforms.

A cougar had to be killed after it was badly injured when hit by a car Wednesday night, said Saanich police. The driver of the car was not injured. The cougar was hit at about 7 p.m.

West Shore RCMP have found the body of a 34-year-old Langford mother who went missing after dropping her child off at school Wednesday. Foul play is not suspected, RCMP said Thursday afternoon.

An Environment Canada snowfall warning is in effect for Greater Victoria, with about three centimetres expected to fall at higher elevations overnight and into Friday.

The grassroots push to create Brooks Point Regional Park on South Pender Island has been finalized a year sooner than expected. Brooks Point is coveted as one of the last pristine headlands in the southern Gulf Islands.