Local News

Victoria Coun. Ben Isitt is urging residents offended by the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority’s rejection of the city’s appointee to its board to let the authority know about it.

More than 4,000 days later, Chan Yung Tong’s love story continues. The 81-year-old adores his wife as much — more — than when they wed. The proof is in the path he has worn through the Royal Oak cemetery lawn.

THURSDAY, FEB. 14 Date Night at The Museum , a romantic Valentine’s evening for adults, 9 to 11 p.m. at the Royal B.C. Museum, 675 Belleville St. For tickets, go to royalbcmuseum.bc.

Not wanting a first impression to be a lasting one, Capital Regional District directors have postponed a public information session on its new sewage treatment plant until they have a better idea of what it might look like.

B.C.’s harmonized sales tax took a final blow in its slow-motion death spiral Wednesday with the introduction of a bill to reinstate the old provincial sales tax.

Cory Daniel Barry was an “angry, angry man” on June 3, 2010 and he turned his rage on an unsuspecting Justin Wendland, Crown lawyer Scott Van Alstine said Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court.

Lisa Twiddy spent a cold and lonely Christmas Day at her son’s grave in Hatley Gardens.

B.C. Institute of Technology president Don Wright says he’ll resign to take a chance at becoming a senior bureaucrat in an NDP government. Wright has agreed to serve as NDP leader Adrian Dix’s deputy minister and head of the B.C.

HALIFAX - Fifteen people have been ordered to appear Thursday before a Supreme Court judge in Halifax after they ignored summonses requiring them to take part in a jury selection process prior to a high-profile murder trial.

Saanich police are seeking the public’s help to locate a vulnerable woman missing from her Gordon Head home since last night.