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A 15-year-old girl was rescued from the frigid waters of Finnerty Cove Wednesday afternoon.

OTTAWA - Former MP Paul Szabo remembers the day he jammed a stick in the spokes of his own majority Liberal government's bill on reproductive technologies by getting opposition help on 76 amendments.

There are two reports of a cougar sighting in Saanich today. Saanich Police contacted the Saanich school district at 10:45 a.m. to report a cougar sighting near Claremont School and Santa Clara Avenue.

When everything is black, it’s natural to want to light a candle in the dark. So it is with the family of Kimberly Proctor. It was three years ago this month that the 18-year-old Langford girl was lured to her death by two classmates.

Traffic, drug awareness, aboriginal policing and youth remain high priorities for officers based at the Shawnigan Lake RCMP detachment at the turn of the new fiscal year.

Don’t expect to walk into your favourite tackle shop to get a 2013 salt water fishing licence any time soon.

OTTAWA - Canada has a new national strategy to tackle an escalating prescription drug abuse crisis — but whether a tangled web of governments, regulators, health professionals and police will be able to effectively implement it remains an open questi

Shawnigan Lake residents are threatening lawsuits and asking for a provincial commission of inquiry into the proposed dumping of contaminated soil from Victoria in their watershed.

A Victoria woman says she is going to the courts in an effort to keep her and her dying husband from being evicted from their Fairfield rental home.