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Victoria is about to launch a major parking review — looking at everything from on street parking rates and payment options to parkade use.

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An NDP government would freeze B.C. Ferries fares while it audits the financially troubled corporation and it would also cancel Liberal plans to cut routes and sailings, the party announced Wednesday.

Lanes dedicated to buses and more “queue-jumpers” — lanes where buses can pass stalled traffic — could help shorten travel times and increase ridership, says a report presented to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission.

An NDP government would tackle a looming skills shortage in B.C. by bringing back student grants, adding more training spaces and setting up a new scholarship fund for post-secondary students, leader Adrian Dix said today.

OTTAWA - The silence of opposition parties as Conservative backbenchers plead for greater freedom to speak their minds during a period reserved for MP statements in the Commons could be complicating the Speaker of the House's decision on the issue.

Three Vancouver Island men who police say used violence in the local drug trade have been arrested by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, based in Vancouver.

An NDP government would freeze B.C. Ferries fares while it audits the financially troubled taxpayer-funded company, and won’t follow through with Liberal plans to cut routes and sailings, the party announced Wednesday.

Two Comox Valley men have been convicted of robbery and a third convicted of theft following an attack in which the victim had to be airlifted to hospital after he was punched and kicked in the head and left unconscious in his Courtenay home.

Gipp Forster, the founder of the Mustard Street Church and food bank, died Monday — his birthday — at age 76. He had been suffering from cancer of the esophagus. Forster, an ordained minister, worked the streets serving Victoria’s down and out.