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Premier Christy Clark has decided to repay money she collected in recent weeks from a severance fund for MLAs who lose their seats in the B.C. legislature.

Two Vancouver Island lighthouses are among 128 across the country that groups are trying to save from destruction or sale.

Victoria police are looking for a teenager after a series of incidents in which seniors were harassed or followed home. A 6 a.m.

A Canadian Forces captain based at 19 Wing Comox has received a 90-day jail sentence and three years of probation for accessing and possessing child pornography. Capt. Glen Engebretson, 47, was sentenced Friday in Courtenay Provincial Court. Judge D.

Campbell River’s Adopt-a-Block volunteers have been told by the city to stop picking up litter in city parks because of union and liability issues.

A Victoria lawyer who was found guilty of public mischief and of fabricating a letter alleging jury tampering has been disbarred.

A ban on using sewage sludge as fertilizer could soon be overturned, as Greater Victoria politicians wrestle with how to handle the leftover waste from the planned sewage treatment megaproject.

A couple of small pieces of property that are neither boulevard nor parking lot have become sweet spots for the city to issue tickets, say some frustrated Victoria business owners.

Here, dear reader, is another example of why Canadians rank telecom companies somewhere between Gary Bettman and herpes on the Likability Index: North Saanich’s Vicki Bridge got a notice from Rogers Wireless saying it was about to charge her $2 a mon

The first-degree murder trial of Joseph Knelsen ended abruptly Monday with a guilty plea to second-degree murder by the 46-year-old man. Knelsen had originally pleaded not guilty in the March 7, 2011, death of Gordon Berg in a Langford home.