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The province has put almost an entire block in James Bay, across the street from the legislature, on the market. It said the goals of the sale are to raise money to help balance B.C.

Paramedic student Jenny Larsson was intoxicated, walking around downtown Victoria with a couple of friends on the early morning of Nov. 26, 2011, when she noticed a crowd and heard two people arguing.

The mother of Emma Fillipoff, who vanished in Victoria on Nov. 28, 2012, is offering a $25,000 reward for information that might lead investigators and family to her whereabouts.

Thermal-sensing cameras will be installed in three locations in downtown Victoria over the Christmas season to track pedestrian movements.

Half a dozen people, slumped over chairs and tables, slept in the front foyer of the Rock Bay Landing shelter — its 84 beds full with the city’s homeless before dawn Tuesday.

When the city wakens and businesses open, many of the homeless who sleep on the streets and in shelters disperse among a network of service providers.

A 77-year-old Victoria woman wants to publicly thank neighbours and fellow passengers who came to her aid after a fall on a transit bus last week. Patricia Potter said she boarded the No. 14 bus about 10:45 a.m.

The hunt for the Italian greyhound lost by Air Canada at the San Francisco airport continues, but it seems unlikely the dog will ever make it to its adoptive home on Vancouver Island.

Newly unemployed workers are scrambling to find jobs as one of the biggest plumbing and heating firms on Vancouver Island closes its doors. Workers learned last week that Torry and Sons Plumbing and Heating Ltd.