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Three people floated helplessly in the water, clinging onto coolers and a half-inflated dinghy as their 29-foot fishing vessel was sucked into the swelling seas.

The second of two inmates who escaped from William Head Institution was caught by West Shore RCMP about 10 a.m. Sunday.

Not even the burning of a rainbow flag will take the lustre from a GLOSSI parade on Saltspring Island today. GLOSSI, or Gays and Lesbians of Salt Spring Island, has organized the sixth annual Pride Parade through the streets of Ganges.

A brash attempt by a Victoria woman to recover her stolen bike led Victoria police to a cache of stolen goods inside a notorious Rock Bay “flop house.

Victoria police are warning apartment hunters to be aware of online rental scams, particularly university and college students looking for housing at the beginning of the school year.

Central Saanich municipal crews and the province are trying to identify the source of a spill that dumped globs of black goo in parts of Graham Creek.

Canada’s West Coast navy doesn’t do much shooting.

The recent closing of a drop-in centre that provided safe, non-judgmental services for sex trade workers in Victoria might be the first casualty among specialized employment programs struggling to fit into a rigid new provincial case management syste

Public school support staff and the B.C. government were expected to continue contract talks today and Sunday in hopes of averting a possible strike as early as next week.

Anyone lucky enough to be on the Ogden Point breakwater on Thursday afternoon was treated to a whale of a show, courtesy of a mother orca and her two sons.