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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.

A 25-year-old woman walked up to an Oceanside RCMP officer at Nanaimo General Hospital Monday afternoon, and allegedly tapped her on the shoulder and punched her in the face. The officer’s nose was broken in the assault, according to an RCMP release.

Campbell River’s Elk Falls Suspension Bridge project over the Campbell River canyon can start being constructed after receiving $325,000 from the Island Coastal Economic Trust today.

B.C.’s health minister wants a backlog of referrals for colon-cancer screening tests in Greater Victoria addressed before the program rolls out provincewide this summer.