Local News

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.

The cumulative effect of coal and oil export projects proposed on the U.S and Canadian sides of the Salish Sea will turn the area into a carbon superhighway, say environmental groups on both sides of the border.

For the third time since April, a B.C. Supreme Court justice has denied an application to return the passport of a Colwood man convicted of child pornography offences.

A man may have got more than he bargained for when he decided to take on a group of women Tuesday. Victoria police were called about 11 p.m. to deal with a “large fight” at an establishment in the 800-block of Esquimalt Road.

Shawnigan residents and the Cowichan Valley Regional District say they will appeal the granting of a permit allowing South Island Aggregates to establish a soil remediation facility in the Shawnigan Lake watershed.

Last week’s column about veterans of the Second World War’s Burma campaign got Gary Hanko rooting through his cupboards. The Victoria man emerged with a brass mug — a small stein, really — that he thinks belongs somewhere else.

The Capital Regional District will spend $900,000 to become the sole owner of a power plant that turns methane from decomposing garbage into electricity at the Hartland Landfill.