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The deputy director of Greater Victoria’s sewage treatment megaproject has had his contract extended until the end of the year.

Thanks to a clear-eyed witness, West Shore RCMP have a suspect in custody after the Island Savings in Langford was robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday. Police received a call about 11:30 a.m.

The family of Kenneth Hooper is worried because he has been missing since Aug. 2 and does not have his medication. West Shore RCMP is asking for help finding Hooper. The 34-year-old Langford man was last seen by a friend around 7 p.m. on Aug.

Friends and families are mourning the loss of two Island men following Friday’s crash of an Air Nootka float plane near Tofino.

The race to win the battleground riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head in the May provincial election was the most expensive on all of Vancouver Island, records show.

A Victoria man was taking the dog he’d recently adopted from the SPCA for a walk in Fernwood Saturday when it attacked and killed a cat.

The University of Victoria and Camosun College project significant increases in international student enrollment this fall, despite an ongoing strike by foreign-service workers who process study permits.

More than 250 people gathered near the Victoria branch of the SPCA on Sunday to protest the firing of long-time manager Penny Stone and provincial policies they worried would have curtailed surgery for some of the sickest animals in Victoria.

A Victoria couple and their friends have spent the better part of a year transforming an old school bus into a treehouse, complete with a toadstool lounge and a rooftop forest deck that doubles as a dance floor.

A post-crash fire may have been a key factor in the deaths of two people aboard an Air Nootka float plane that crashed Friday in the wilderness north of Tofino, a Transportation Safety Board investigator says.