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The condition of an 85-year-old man injured in a home invasion May 20 continues to improve in hospital.

A year-long investigation into an alleged privacy breach in the Health Ministry has cost about $2.5 million — and has yet to produce a final report for the public or police.

NANAIMO — Two orphaned bear cubs are settling into their temporary home at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre after being rescued in Nanaimo on Thursday.

One woman was airlifted to Victoria last night after a crash outside Ucluelet. Island RCMP Cpl. Darren Lagan said a pickup truck carrying three adults went down a 20-metre embankment near Kennedy Lake.

The Boston Marathon bombings hit a little too close to home for Ladysmith’s Pat Montgomery. Her son Dennis, lured to the Massachusetts city by a computer-programming job 13 years ago, lives there with his family.

A man paralyzed after he was struck by a falling tree at Elk Lake last fall remains in hospital seven months later. Dave Inglis, 54, was walking with three friends on Oct.

A proposed clay court tennis facility at the Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, designed to host international competitions, is facing a backlash from community members angry at the possibility of losing community land.

About 7,000 people, scholars, artists and cultural figures united by intellectual curiosity will converge on the University of Victoria for one week beginning Saturday.

The B.C. government denies allegations by a Victoria drug researcher that the province tried to silence his work because it would shrink lucrative political contributions from drug companies to the B.C. Liberal Party.

Community Living B.C. is working to improve the way it responds to the deaths of adults with developmental disabilities in group homes, home shares or other living arrangements.