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The Times Colonist 10K will take place April 28 with extra security in light of the terrorist attack at Monday’s Boston Marathon. Race director Jacqui Sanderson met Tuesday with Victoria municipal and police officials to discuss the issue.

Opponents of a plan to put a sewage treatment plant and biosolids facility in Esquimalt got the backing of the co-author of a report advocating small treatment plants scattered around the region rather than one large one.

Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong slammed the Vancouver Island Health Authority on Wednesday for failing to resolve a contract dispute that has resulted in four doctors resigning from a medical clinic that serves seniors.

On the surface, everything seemed ordinary about the annual birthday call Verna McAdams made from her Langford home to identical twin sister, Vera Burke, in Saskatchewan on Wednesday.

East Sooke firefighters were lucky they weren’t inside a burning building when their water supply faltered Saturday, Fire Chief Roger Beck says.

This time, the bets are on Fifty Shades of Grey. Every spring, the previous year’s bestsellers flood into the Times Colonist book sale. In 2012, it was the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series.

Victoria is about to launch a major parking review — looking at everything from on street parking rates and payment options to parkade use.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Tommy Tiernan: Stray Sod, presented by Just for Laughs at the University of Victoria, University Centre Farquhar Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Tickets at [email protected] "> [email protected] or tel. 250-721-8480.

An NDP government would freeze B.C. Ferries fares while it audits the financially troubled corporation and it would also cancel Liberal plans to cut routes and sailings, the party announced Wednesday.

Lanes dedicated to buses and more “queue-jumpers” — lanes where buses can pass stalled traffic — could help shorten travel times and increase ridership, says a report presented to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission.