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Scouts Canada has tracked down a new Chief Scout — Terry Grant, former star of the reality-TV series Mantracker. Until Grant’s induction on Friday in Victoria, the position had always been held by the governor general. Gov. Gen.

After missing the first week of the election campaign in Nanaimo-North Cowichan, the B.C. Liberals filled its last vacancy Friday by appointing a 32-year-old mortgage agent as candidate.

Who knew the Seinfeld tickets would go to someone from the same building as Andris Freimanis? Who knew the pickle-winner would have been heading for the passport office? When writing recently about the helpful manner of Freimanis, the commissionaire

A Victoria provincial court judge has ruled that a statement made by a Lake Cowichan man arrested after throwing a suitcase stuffed with $2.6 million US into the ocean is admissible at trial.

Victoria businessman David Black has taken a major step forward in fulfilling his dream of an oil refinery built on B.C.’s west coast after making a deal that could be worth billions of dollars with a major bank in China.

The Greater Victoria school board has approved a balanced budget for this year with a $16,000 surplus.

This is the weekend to get rid of your old books for a good cause. If you take them to the 16th annual Times Colonist book drive, you’ll be helping Vancouver Island literacy-related programs. Drop off your books between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

A Victoria police officer who abused his authority by using excessive force when he arrested a young man during a drunken brawl on Store Street three years ago will be suspended without pay for two days. Const.

When the stranger with wild hair and even wilder eyes plunged a knife into a young woman's chest outside a Wal-Mart, screaming as he continued stabbing even after she fell to the ground, she thought she was going to die.

A man found guilty of second-degree murder taunted the mother of his victim before leaving the courtroom Friday. Cory Daniel Barry, 42, was convicted in the June 2010 death of 15-year-old Justin Wendland.