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The Vancouver Island Health Authority will expand a program that provides health services to help keep seniors in their homes as long as possible. It’s one of three programs that will share VIHA’s $7.

A small herd of Angus cattle graze on Saanich farmland as the owners and the municipality lock horns over the property’s future. Don Alberg moved the cattle onto the property at 1516 Mount Douglas Cross Rd.

An Esquimalt man faces 23 charges related to a number of thefts from vehicles over the past several months. The Regional Crime Unit followed up on the Feb. 12 theft of a lottery ticket from a vehicle in Saanich.

B.C.’s independent elections agency says it has spent only $40,000 of the budgeted quarter-million dollars to prepare for Senate elections that now won’t happen. Elections B.C.

An elderly woman survived a 30-metre plummet Friday after her vehicle veered off Mill Bay Road and down an embankment. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, which happened about 8:50 a.m., said Chief Ron Beck of the Mill Bay Fire Department.

Jeneece Edroff got good news at the Mayo Clinic on Friday: No cancer. Off at another U.S. hospital, Baby Molly’s family hopes for a similar result. And, at B.C. Children’s Hospital, so do Baby Madrona’s parents.

CHEK-TV replaced its president and comptroller Friday in a major shakeup at the employee-owned station.

A 116-year-old house rich in B.C. history was saved from demolition and will be moved by barge to a foundation at Union Bay next week. The Ellerslie at 316 Anson St.

After 41 years at 3500 Blanshard St., the Greater Victoria Public Library board wants to know how patrons would feel about relocating across the road to Uptown Centre.

No more human remains have been discovered at the Craigflower Elementary School playing field after more than a week of careful excavation and archeology work.