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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.

The B.C. government will review the state of co-operative policing in Greater Victoria, following a request from the leaders of the capital’s core municipalities. The mayors of Victoria, Esquimalt, Saanich, Central Saanich and Oak Bay met with B.C.

SATURDAY, MARCH 2 Let’s Make An Opera and the Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten and librettist Eric Crozier, presented by the Belfry Theatre and Pacific Opera Victoria, 7:30 p.m. at the Belfry Theatre. Tickets at belfry.bc.ca or tel. 250-385-6815.

Parents at South Wellington Elementary School want to know why their sign reminding their south-end community of upcoming student registration deadlines for next year was recently taken down by school officials.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an order authorizing the government to begin cutting $85 billion from federal accounts, officially enacting across-the-board reductions that he opposed but failed to avert.

A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that a blind runner was discriminated against by the Victoria International Running Society when it denied his request for an early start to 2011 Times Colonist 10K run.

The wolf on Discovery Island has outfoxed its would-be captors. Traps set by B.C. Parks have been removed and parks staff will instead rely on education and special food containers in the campground to keep people and the wolf apart.

Farmers should try to work more closely with hunters this year to deal with problem deer, Greater Victoria officials say.

Investigators have been unable to determine the cause of a fire that claimed three lives on Feb. 16. Barring any new information, the investigation into the fire at 1320 Johnson St.