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A 10-year-old Comox girl has started a campaign to stop what she sees as bullying every time she crosses the border to visit her grandmother. The problem, Harriette Cunningham says, is that her passport says she’s a boy.

Cathie Dickens saw a change the first time she took her granddaughter Harriette shopping for a dress. “It just broke my heart to see her put it on and look at herself in the mirror,” Dickens said.

On Sunday morning, David Kirk will start where Terry Fox wanted to finish. For the first time in 32 years, the retired school principal will not be participating in the Terry Fox Run in his community of Orangeville, Ont.

Users of Cool Aid’s Downtown Community Centre are enjoying revamped facilities, including new showers, improved lighting and additional soundproofing, thanks to a $100,000 donation from the Rotary Club of Victoria.

A Sooke man who was expected to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps as hereditary chief of the T’Souke First Nation has been sentenced to nine months in jail for sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

Three bikes worth thousands of dollars were stolen from an underground Superior Street parkade Saturday morning.

A 7-Eleven store in Saanich was robbed Saturday morning for the fourth time since June 25. Police have now released images taken from security video that they believe shows the man responsible.

The retirement of the last Martin Mars water bomber, the largest piston-powered propeller-driven aircraft in the world, marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another for Wayne Coulson, head of Coulson Group of Companies in Port Alberni.

A new provincial park on Quadra Island is one step closer to reality after an American forest company has tentatively agreed to sell a chunk of waterfront land to the B.C. government. Merrill & Ring, a forestry company based in Portland, Ore.