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Premier Christy Clark tried to use her first campaign stop Tuesday to boost the fortunes of local B.C. Liberal candidates, as a new poll showed her party slipping below the B.C. Greens in popularity on Vancouver Island.

B.C. New Democrats are very inclusive. They’ll take just about anybody who wants to be a candidate. The party’s loose approach to picking candidates has been shown several times over the years. The B.C.

Four doctors poised to walk out of a senior-focused Victoria clinic next month say they requested an emergency meeting with the Vancouver Island Health Authority but have not had a response.

An injured hiker was brought to safety in a rescue operation that saw a Langford volunteer firefighter hurt when his all-terrain vehicle went down a hill backward.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Randy Bachman: Vinyl Tap Tour — Every Song Tells a Story, 7:30 p.m. at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca or tel. 250-386-6121. K-OS with Rich Aucoin, 8 p.m., at Sugar Nightclub, 858 Yates St.

The RCMP has revised the list of survivors of a helicopter crash Saturday near Bute Inlet. Initial reports indicated that four men and a woman survived the crash.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned the one-day jail sentence for an impaired driver who killed a motorcyclist on the Trans-Canada Highway on Canada Day 2011.

Two more agencies that provide services to people with developmental disabilities have filed suit against the B.C. government for allegedly mishandling employee benefit plans. The Fort St.

Church, social-service and recreation organizations will plead their case to Victoria city councillors tonight in an effort to maintain their property-tax exemptions.

TORONTO - A prison supervisor used excessive force on a deeply troubled teenaged inmate on two occasions, then tried to cover up his misconduct by falsifying his accounts on the incidents, according to a disciplinary investigation made public Tuesday