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The Royal B.C. Museum hopes a blockbuster summer exhibit helps it weather a $300,000 reduction in provincial funding. The museum’s provincial grant will be reduced to $11.86 million in 2013-14 from $12.

The Pacific salmon is now B.C.’s official fish.

TORONTO - Ontario's highest court has signalled that the right of police officers to look through someone's phone depends on whether there's a password.

Since the beginning of the new year, Port Alberni RCMP have noticed the number of calls they are responding to related to mental illness or suicides has alarmingly increased. Media liaison Const.

TORONTO - A review initiated by Canada's largest veterans centre in light of several care complaints was too broadly focused to come to grips with pressing problems at the facility, a veterans activist said Wednesday.

Here’s what you need to know about Tuesday’s provincial budget: If you smoke, it will cost another two bucks a carton as of Oct. 1. If you have a child age six or under, there’ll be a one-time $1,200 grant for Junior’s post-secondary education.

A reward fund for information about the fatal attack on a miniature horse in Saanich now stands at $7,100.

The water supply in the Comox Valley will be threatened if the proposed Raven Coal Mine goes ahead, says the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Clinic, which wants the Vancouver Island Health Authority to step in and halt the project until vi

Light from a hundred candles filled Market Square, casting a glow on the sombre faces of those who gathered to remember three young people who died early Saturday morning in a house fire on Johnson Street.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20 Country Legends: A Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline Tribute with Bonnie Kilros and David James and Big River, 7:30 p.m. at the Charlie White Theatre, 2243 Beacon Ave., Sidney. Tickets at tickets.marywinspear.ca or 250-656-0275. Call Mr.