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Dalyn Campbell only got to spend a few months with her youngest grandchild, Molly Campbell, but she savoured every minute of it. “She had just a beautiful spirit. She had such strength and courage.

Members of the Tseycum First Nation are facing a setback in their move to revive the traditional practice of harvesting clams in Patricia Bay after the closure of a local program that monitored marine health.

A group of North Saanich volunteers is calling on the federal government to take action to reverse declining marine health in Patricia Bay.

Bylaw amendments permitting residents to keep up to four chickens on properties as small as 550 square metres were approved this week by Colwood city councillors. Roosters are prohibited. The bylaw regulates size and location of allowable coops.

B.C.’s environment minister says she hopes she doesn’t have to become involved in a dispute between the Capital Regional District and the Township of Esquimalt over a proposed sewage treatment plant at McLoughlin Point.

The assistant manager of the Victoria SPCA quit her job Tuesday over proposed changes to the way the shelter provides medical care, prompting volunteers to go online to express concern for animals at the shelter.

A new Craigflower bridge won’t open until March 2014 at the earliest as difficulty in obtaining steel has dashed any hope of a December completion.

Mounties used a Mr. Big undercover operation in their investigation of a plot to bomb Canada Day crowds at the legislature, said a defence lawyer for one of the accused on Tuesday.

When Jeanne Socrates steered her sailboat past Ogden Point early Monday morning, the 70-year-old British grandmother demonstrated that big dreams can be realized, no matter what your age.

The B.C. Health Ministry directed independent drug-safety researchers to stop the evaluation of a controversial drug used by thousands of B.C. residents to quit smoking because it had become “too political,” the NDP claims.