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PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius could compete at this year's world championships after a South African judge eased his bail restrictions and ruled Thursday that the athlete, who faces a murder trial for the shooting death of his girlfriend,

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Jarome Iginla spent 16 years chasing a Stanley Cup in Calgary. The Penguins think he'll only need three months playing alongside the likes of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to grab one in Pittsburgh.

A necropsy will be performed Friday on a dead humpback whale that floated up under the containment net of a Mainstream Canada salmon farm north of Tofino on Wednesday. The whale, believed to be a pre-adult female, about 7.

The sight of almost 300 kids streaming up the hill from View Royal Elementary School almost overwhelmed Fire Chief Paul Hurst on Wednesday.

The Greater Victoria School District will be able to balance its budget next year without laying off staff or cutting programs, board chairwoman Peg Orcherton said Wednesday.

Victoria wants the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority’s bylaws changed so it doesn’t have to get into another fight over who it to appoints to the body.

A Victoria drug trafficker has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a $150,000 proceeds-of-crime fine.

THURSDAY, MARCH 28 Love Letters, presented by Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, 8 p.m. at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca. For more information, go to tel. 250-386-6121.

A young male harbour porpoise is under 24-hour watch at the Vancouver Aquarium after it was found stranded Tuesday on the shores of Saanich Inlet.

NANAIMO — The transfer of 877 hectares of heavily treed land marks a new beginning for the Snuneymuxw First Nation, its chief said Wednesday.