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Langford will waive more than $300,000 in taxes and fees facing the M’Akola Housing Society. The society had planned to build 44 units of non-profit affordable rental housing at 554 Goldstream Ave.

Donations to cancer research poured in Tuesday in the name of Xavier Pelletier, the Saanich teenager who died after being struck by a car during a charity bike ride on the weekend.

Langford’s Goldstream Avenue fountain will be pretty in pink this month.

More than 100 sex addiction experts are convening at the Hotel Grand Pacific Wednesday and Thursday to talk about a “tidal wave” of sex addiction caused by easy access to pornography and services offering sexual hookups.

[UPDATE 6:40 a.m. Wednesday: Dallon Johnstone was located and is in good health.] Saanich police are asking the public to help them locate a 26-year-old man who has not been in contact with family or friends since June 12.

More than $800,000 in structural repairs will have to be made to two trestles on the Lochside Trail over the next five to 15 years.

The construction on the Malahat section of the Trans-Canada Highway will continue longer than expected. The original completion date for the $8-million contract was set for June 30 but has been pushed back three weeks to July 20.

A construction worker suffered serious injuries Tuesday after he received an electric shock on Chemainus Road near the Chemainus River bridge. The old wooden bridge is being replaced with a steel one. Worksafe B.C.

Annette Halsted reflected Monday on the difficult birth of her only son 16 years ago — after the Pacific Christian School student was killed Sunday during a charity bike ride from Vancouver to Seattle.

Saanich police closed the off-ramp from the Patricia Bay Highway to Glanford Avenue Monday evening for an estimated four to six hours following a single vehicle crash at 8:30 p.m.