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A Nanaimo woman has been given a $109 ticket after her car was struck by a train on Tuesday.

OTTAWA - The U.S. State Department and the United Nations chided Canada's international co-operation minister Wednesday over his controversial remarks about re-tooling aid to impoverished Haiti.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Crusaders for good, old-fashioned Western democracy look to be the key figures vying for this year's Academy Awards.

A proposal to revamp the Capital Regional District committee system — giving more directors more of a say on more issues — needs more study, CRD directors decided Wednesday.

Not wanting firefighters wasting time fumbling through crowded key rings, Esquimalt will require lockboxes to be installed on all commercial and multi-unit residential buildings. Esquimalt fire trucks carry keys coded to various buildings.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man charged with assaulting a B.C. Transit driver last month. Joseph John Janzen failed to appear Wednesday in Victoria provincial court.

A slim majority of local politicians voted Wednesday to back down in their fight with the B.C. government over control of the sewage treatment megaproject.

A University of Victoria PhD student who was one of seven people fired last year as part of a Health Ministry investigation into an alleged privacy breach has been found dead.

A 47-year-old motorist injured by a train at a Nanaimo crossing Tuesday has received a $109 ticket for failing to stop. The woman suffered extensive bruising and was treated in hospital and released, Nanaimo RCMP said.

A 62-year-old pedestrian died Wednesday morning after she was hit by a garbage truck in Cedar, south of Nanaimo. The accident happened about 10 a.m.