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The Victoria Police Board has taken a step toward finding a replacement for Chief Jamie Graham by hiring an executive-search company. Vancouver-based Pinton Forrest & Madden will work with the board.

Victoria bureaucrats will have to be careful not to trample over press freedoms as they consider ridding city streets of newspaper kiosks, says one city councillor.

It was Idi Amin who concluded the empire was getting a good deal from Jeremy Hespeler-Boultbee. Victoria’s Hespeler-Boultbee was a barely shaving officer in the King’s African Rifles.

Police officers are often stereotyped as sitting around in cruisers, a box of doughnuts never far from their reach. But Victoria Police Const.

David Foster’s star power will get a big boost when he is honoured on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next week. The 16-time Grammy Award-winning musician from Victoria will have a star bearing his name unveiled on the sidewalk at 1750 North Vine St.

The City of Victoria plans to unveil its latest public art project at a ceremony today. The Hands of Time, by artist Crystal Przybille, is a series of 12 bronze sculpted hands representing elements of Victoria’s heritage.

The company that wants to build an underground coal mine in the Comox Valley says it is not giving up, despite the rejection of its initial proposal by the provincial government. Compliance Coal Corp.

A University of Victoria fine arts graduate is extending a helping hand to tourists. In fact, artist Crystal Przybille has created a dozen hands, sculpted in bronze, that are designed to encourage visitors to explore the city’s history.

B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix says he’ll stay in his job “over the next few months” to oversee a review into his party’s devastating election loss and the NDP’s future.

Former B.C. MLA Harold Long was killed in a floatplane crash in Bute Inlet near Stuart Island on Tuesday, the B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed today.