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Fraud-related offences are gaining ground on armed robbery and other crimes here and across the country.

When Katelynn McHaffie woke up Monday, she felt slightly uncomfortable but didn’t imagine she’d soon be giving birth in a van travelling along a highway ramp with her 2-1/2-year-old son cheering her on.

A nine-kilometre paved bike and walking trail around Victoria International Airport will be finished by mid-September, says airport president and CEO Geoff Dickson.

A Nanaimo man is expected to be sent to jail after he used a wooden pole to assault a senior on a scooter.

Eager campers have set an all-time record for reservations at B.C. Parks this year, says the government.

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.