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B.C. Hydro says power conservation and new projects like the Site C dam will help meet the province’s electricity needs for the next 20 years, with enough leftover to feed power-hungry liquefied natural gas plants.

The search for a missing 67-year-old woman along the Cowichan River is now in the hands of the Lake Cowichan RCMP.

The pilot killed in an Air Nootka crash last week, 66-year-old Grant Clifford Howatt of Ladysmith, was a former owner of the float-plane company. Howatt, whose identity was confirmed Friday by the B.C.

The freedom and emotional well-being of many seniors would be put at risk by tougher regulations for personal mobility scooters and electric wheelchairs, says a 79-year-old Victoria man who uses a scooter to get around.

Victoria’s top cop says the next step in reforming Canada’s drug laws should be finding a way to deal with marijuana-impaired drivers.

The Crown is proceeding with its drug-trafficking case against Diego Hernandez, a B.C. man they believe is missing in Mexico.

The Maritime Museum of British Columbia is renewing calls for increased government funding after it was forced to close part of its building Friday because some of the ceiling fell in.

After members of the public peer through the telescope at the Centre of the Universe for the last time tonight, a campaign to save the science education centre will continue.

Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin says he doesn’t know what it would take to bring in tough new regulations for motorized wheelchairs, but he believes there are better, different options to accommodate the changing demographics of the aging population.

Even if a major earthquake misses Victoria by hundreds of kilometres, the city could still be at increased risk of a major followup shake, a new report suggests.