Local News

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.

The owners of vacant waterfront land in View Royal are slamming the Capital Regional District for not taking a fair look at the site for sewage treatment plants.

Most politicians would be happy just to win their race in an election. But Michelle Stilwell isn’t like most politicians. The Parksville-Qualicum MLA and government caucus chairwoman set a world record of two minutes, 14.

The City of Langford is throwing its doors open to the hot rod and classic car community after a parking dispute forced the enthusiasts out of their longtime Royal Oak hangout.

Oak Bay Police are asking the public to keep a lookout for a 55-year-old man who hasn’t been heard from since mid-June. Wayne Gerber told his family on June 13 that he was going camping, but didn’t say where.

B.C. Ferries has won approval to buy three new vessels and will seek to bring more standardization to its fleet with the purchase.