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The teachers’ union has launched an online petition against the Greater Victoria school district for trying to stop substitute teachers from winning temporary contracts and then promptly going on maternity leave.

Critics are slamming the Vancouver Island Health Authority’s new model for care delivery, saying it is really a way to replace registered nurses with less- qualified care aides.

One of Victoria’s best-attended cultural events hit a snag on the weekend as many residents found the noise from Rifflandia’s outdoor venues to be too much.

Surrounded by male officers on the cover of a Victoria magazine in 1992, Det. Const. Terry Albrecht looked self-assured and confident.

Saanich police have released video-surveillance photographs from recent robberies at the Carey Road/Tillicum Road 7-Eleven store in an effort to generate information from the public.

The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed the identities of three people who died in a motor vehicle incident west of Port Alberni on Sept. 8.

A 54-year-old man is facing a charge of pointing a firearm after Sooke RCMP responded to a complaint from his neighbour on Sunday. Staff Sgt. Steve Wright said a call came about 5:10 p.m.

Police report that the Malahat highway is clear and traffic is moving at Finlayson Arm Road after a four-car crash at 9:20 a.m. today. Three people have been take to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and three vehicles have been towed.

Three men were arrested at gunpoint early this morning after police say they burst into a Langford home in what West Shore RCMP believe was a targeted home invasion. Around 1:37 a.m.

NDP organizers in the riding of Coquitlam-Maillardville are calling on leader Adrian Dix to resign, in advance of a press conference on his future this week.