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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.

Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union rallied at Royal Jubilee Hospital on Wednesday to push for higher wages and better working conditions.

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A three-year-old Saltspring Island girl has died but her five-year-old sister is expected to survive following a collision Tuesday between a car, driven by the girls’ mother, and a commercial van on Saltspring.

Police have accused the operators of The Loft Gallery in downtown Victoria of supplying youth with drugs and moonshine, and say the gallery has also been illegally operating as a late-night and after-hours venue.

Joggers are on the alert after a man jumped from the bushes in a ski mask and grabbed a woman at the popular Westwood Lake trail in Nanaimo on Sunday evening.

The NDP’s Gary Holman was declared MLA-elect for Saanich North and the Islands on Wednesday, after a hard-fought three-way race that came down to the final ballots. Holman widened his slim election-night lead over Liberal Stephen P.

Tent caterpillars, which last year wiped out apple crops on Saltspring Island and caused the cancellation of the annual apple festival, are now hatching from their tree-top nests and munching on fresh, green leaves.

Superintendent Keven Elder is leaving the Saanich school district after eight years to take a temporary post with the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association.