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A 33-foot yacht, two businesses and two homes have been searched by Victoria and Saanich police as part of a lengthy drug investigation.

Good government policy should not be based on crisis events — including a grisly murder — says a University of Victoria criminologist.

A plan to replace the 52-year-old Admiral Inn at 257 Belleville St. with an eight-storey, 35-unit condominium has won continued support from Victoria’s planning committee.

Environmentalists are calling on faculty and other professional staff at the University of Victoria to divest their pension investments from the controversial pipeline company Enbridge.

Fast footwork by Const. Cam Stephen earned the Victoria Police Department rookie his first arrest. Stephen was one of the officers on the scene of a robbery in James Bay about 3 a.m. Saturday.

A Courtenay radio station has fired the host who asked Premier Christy Clark a sexually charged question on air last month.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has ordered a new civil trial for a Saanich police officer who was found negligent in a civil suit filed by the family of a 33-year-old mentally ill man shot dead after a confrontation.

Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid offered her condolences Thursday on the death of a former employee who was fired last year as part of an ongoing investigation into privacy breach allegations.

NANAIMO — Reports of several cases of scarlet fever in Nanaimo should not alarm parents, says the Vancouver Island Heath Authority.

YVONNE ZACHARIAS Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER — Abbotsford police have turned up gruesome evidence in a case against a man who is scheduled to appear in provincial court next week for counselling a mentally disturbed woman to commit suicide.