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Charities and non-profit groups in Esquimalt will no longer be able to claim both property-tax exemptions and local grants, under changes approved by town council Monday night.

Two City of Victoria managers have lost their jobs as part of corporate restructuring expected to save $500,000 a year and hold the lid on municipal tax increases.

Saanich police are looking for three missing items that don’t usually make their list of stolen goods. One is a hot dog cart, bearing the logo Dog Nation, stolen from a home on Raymond Street South, near Tillicum Road.

It has been nearly a month since teenagers Oswald Felsman IV and Deion Watts put their lives on the line to save an unconscious, intoxicated 25-year-old Malcolm Swan from the Somass River.

The B.C. government will cover the costs of negotiated wage increases for public school teachers and has no plans to pass those expenses on to school districts, the education minister said Wednesday.

A crash between an unmarked police car and an SUV shut down the southbound lane of Blanshard Street at Bay Street for about 40 minutes on Wednesday afternoon. Victoria Police Const.

Health-care professionals celebrated a major milestone in a new way to deliver care to patients in remote communities.

Victoria police are warning the public to stay alert after a possible cougar sighting in downtown Esquimalt this morning.

Many of the young people in B.C.’s three youth custody centres experienced significant trauma before they end up behind bars, a new survey by the McCreary Centre Society shows.

The B.C. government says it’s happy with the number of bids to take over operation of the historic Craigflower Manor and schoolhouse properties, to turn them from museums into a new community use. Requests for expressions of interest closed Aug. 19.