Local News

West Shore RCMP are investigating a suspicious fire at the Inferno Chophouse and Grill in Langford this morning. Police said the blaze started about 2:25 a.m. this morning in the restauarant located in the Sheraton Hotel on McCallum Road.

Further details are emerging from two apparent stabbings on Saturday in the Tillicum area.

Strength and stupidity came together to create a hazard in Saanich where as many as five weighty storm-drain covers were removed late Monday or early Tuesday.

B.C.’s two main political parties are digging themselves out of debt after a hard-fought, multimillion-dollar May provincial election campaign, financial records show. Both the B.C. Liberal Party and B.C.

A campfire ban is being lifted for Courtenay and points north on Vancouver Island. The prohibition on campfires and other open fires remains in effect on the rest of Vancouver Island.

The daughter of a Campbell River woman murdered by Robert Pickton has launched a civil lawsuit against the serial killer, his brother, the Crown, the RCMP and the Vancouver police.

A local masonry company will begin the restoration of gravestones in Pioneer Square in September as part of a $700,000 redevelopment of the historic park.

The Beaver float plane that crashed near Tofino Friday was powered by the original piston engine, which has long been out of production, said David Curtis, CEO of Viking Air.

Canada’s transportation minister has promised Vancouver Island rail proponents that she will talk to Via Rail about a protracted dispute over the future of local passenger rail service.

Saanich police say the man who punched a woman in an unprovoked attack on the Galloping Goose Trail on Aug. 14 may be responsible for a second attack on the same day.