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As crimes go, it wasn’t exactly The Italian Job. Someone swiped the keys Margaret Simpson had left dangling from the door to her Cook Street apartment, then came back later and stole the first thing he saw, an antique clock.

Health and child welfare officials have agreed to work together on a three-year plan to improve services for a growing number of children and youth with mental-health problems on Vancouver Island.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has increased the liability a Texada Island pub bears for causing a crash that rendered a Powell River woman quadriplegic. In a decision made public Wednesday, Justice Mary Newbury overturned a B.C.

TAHSIS — Police say several people were injured when a charter bus flipped onto its side near Tahsis, on northwestern Vancouver Island. RCMP received a report last night that the bus had crashed on a forest service road near the Leiner Bridge.

An earthquake has rattled the area off northwestern Vancouver Island. The U.S. Geological Survey says 5.1 magnitude quake hit at 5:57 Friday morning. It was centred under the Pacific Ocean, about 170 kilometres west of Port Hardy, B.C.

PORT ALBERNI — It took more than six decades, an ocean crossing and a newspaper article, but childhood friends Jenny Stewart and Jenny Dafoe found each other — right down the road, as it turns out.

Greater Victoria’s police-reported crime rate fell by seven per cent over the last year, according to numbers released Thursday by Statistics Canada. That’s a bigger drop than the three per cent average decline in crimes reported across Canada.

A blocked Saanich sewage pipe backed up and overflowed last week causing some minor contamination of at least one community garden plot, officials say.

Opposition MLAs will begin posting itemized travel and accommodation reports on a public website next month in an effort to improve accountability and pressure government MLAs to do the same.

Lurid court cases have often drawn the public spotlight in B.C. Plenty of examples can be found in court records in a collection of B.C.’s legal history that has just been moved to the protective environs of the B.C. Archives at the Royal B.C.