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Canada’s West Coast navy doesn’t do much shooting.

The recent closing of a drop-in centre that provided safe, non-judgmental services for sex trade workers in Victoria might be the first casualty among specialized employment programs struggling to fit into a rigid new provincial case management syste

Public school support staff and the B.C. government were expected to continue contract talks today and Sunday in hopes of averting a possible strike as early as next week.

Anyone lucky enough to be on the Ogden Point breakwater on Thursday afternoon was treated to a whale of a show, courtesy of a mother orca and her two sons.

The Saanich Police have a warrant for Greig Fredrik Wikoren but they can't seem to find him. The 44-year-old Duncan resident is wanted on domestic assault charges and is believed to be avoiding both Saanich and North Cowichan/Duncan officers.

One man was injured after his car flipped and rolled from the Mill Bay off-ramp on the Malahat highway this morning. Emergency crews rushed to the scene at 9:26 a.m.

A five-year-old girl was rushed to hospital this morning after being struck by a pick up truck when she ran into traffic in Nanaimo.

OTTAWA — Greater Victoria’s unemployment rate inched down as more people working part-time helped Canada’s economy grind out 59,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada reported today, about triple what most economists had expected.

Ocean experts are warning anyone curious about the red jellyfish washing up on Vancouver Island beaches to keep their distance.

A year to the day after B.C. Health Ministry researcher Roderick MacIsaac was fired with three others as part of a highly publicized privacy breach investigation, his family still wants to know why.