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Take your dirty dirt and dump it elsewhere was the message sent Saturday by Shawnigan Lake demonstrators to the provincial government and South Island Aggregates/Cobble Hill Holdings Ltd.

Three people are in hospital with serious injuries after a pickup truck rammed the front porch of a house in Port Alberni early Saturday. When police arrived at the home at 2804 Sixth St.

Paddlers and dart players raised a combined $31,000 to support Easter Seals Camp Shawnigan, a summer camp for children with disabilities, last weekend.

Two cyclists were struck by vehicles in separate incidents in Saanich on Saturday, sending one man to hospital with serious injuries.

A Victoria man was in the grip of cocaine psychosis when he spouted religious blessings, tried to strangle a stranger, climbed on an armoured truck, then shoved a bath sponge down his girlfriend’s throat while holding her face under a running tap, B.

Motorists looking to fuel up at Chevron stations in Saanich Saturday were blocked by protesters joining a global call to action against the company’s Pacific Trail Pipeline project.

If Easter is about renewal after suffering, then this is a good time for the story of the Olynyk twins. They’re 25, bright, effervescent. Stacey has officially been cancer-free for a while now.

EASTER SUNDAY EGG HUNTS • Lions Easter Egg Hunt, a free family event, noon-3 p.m. at Esquimalt Gorge Park. • Fifth Annual Easter Egg Hunt in Saanich at Beckwith Park off Quadra Street, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

It will be a poignant moment when Don Rodger Jr. of Sidney plays the bagpipes at the opening ceremonies of the Ford World Men’s Curling Championship at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre today. Don Jr.

A Duncan family doctor has been suspended for having a relationship with a patient, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. Dr. Andre Jacob de Wit entered the personal and sexual relationship with a patient in 2011.