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B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone plans to talk to Via Rail and the federal transport minister during the first week of September in an effort to sort out the Island rail dispute.

The Comox Valley will be divided in half and Nanaimo united under final changes to federal election boundaries on Vancouver Island. A three-person electoral commission tabled its final report into B.C.

Firefighters brought a brush fire under control in Sooke this morning and kept the flames from nearby homes. The Sooke Fire Department was called about 10:30 a.m. Crews from Otter Point and East Sooke were brought in to assist, as were the B.C.

An accused fraudster featured on the TV show America’s Most Wanted and accused of travelling across Canada, with a stop in Victoria, duping seniors was arrested in Vancouver.

A 17-year-old driver’s decision to lean on the horn as his vehicle sped toward a Colwood beach this morning likely saved two people from injury.

If today is your birthday: You will have so many choices over the coming 12 months that it may be hard to decide what to work on first. Make your selection and stick with it.

A man with a gun walked into the Petro-Canada gas station near Elk Lake around 4 a.m. today and demanded cash from the store’s lone female employee. Saanich police said the man left the store with cash and ran toward the highway.

A cyclist involved in a collision with a car on the Pat Bay Highway near McKenzie Avenue around 6:30 a.m. Thursday wasn’t as badly hurt as first thought.

Concern is growing that radioactive water from a damaged nuclear plant in Japan could affect fish in B.C.

Next week’s sentencing hearing for a North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP officer, convicted of aggravated assault for shooting and injuring an unarmed Chemainus man during a traffic stop four years ago, has been delayed. On Wednesday, Const.