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Penny Stone, manager of the Victoria SPCA shelter for the past decade, was let go on Tuesday. “I’m going to really miss the animals,” Stone said Tuesday in a brief interview. “I loved my job.

A Saanich man has been released on $50,000 bail after being charged with drug trafficking. Amarvit Singh Gill, 25, who was arrested Friday afternoon, appeared in Victoria provincial court on Tuesday.

Construction delays on the Malahat are coming to an end — at least until the fall — with crews finishing the majority of a highway upgrade project on Monday. B.C.

B.C. Green Party Leader Jane Sterk is resigning from her party and leaving politics this month. Sterk, who made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter, said she was at her best-before date in politics and wants to pursue other adventures.

A Nanaimo man originally charged with murder in a deadly 2010 shooting has been convicted of possessing a restricted firearm instead.

Campbell River is reverberating with the news that someone caught a 61.5-pound chinook salmon in the Tyee Club of British Columbia's annual tournament Sunday night.

Two brothers credit watching a TV series for learning techniques that helped them survive two nights lost in the wilderness of Strathcona Park.

An injured man from a logging site near Holberg on northern Vancouver Island was transported to hospital in Victoria by an air-force helicopter crew.

Traigo Andretti pleaded guilty in Campbell River court Monday to the first degree murder of his wife Jennifer McPherson and interfering with her dead body. But provincial court Judge J. Parker MacCarthy rejected the guilty plea.

A 25-year-old Saanich man is facing a range of charges after Saanich police uncovered drugs, cash and firearms at a pair of residences. About .