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Some restaurants and businesses in the Nanaimo area continue to flout a ban on commercial food waste headed for the regional landfill. A waste composition study was carried out on the Regional District of Nanaimo’s landfill in October, 2012.

Environment Canada has issued heavy rainfall warnings for sections of Vancouver Island today.

Two U.S. historians have shed new light on a little-known but powerful story from 19th-century Canada, when black settlers on Vancouver Island orchestrated the dramatic escape of a 12-year-old slave from his master in Washington territory, on the U.

It was not a good Monday for Oscar the Dungeness crab.

Regional politicians are considering an image makeover for Greater Victoria’s proposed sewage treatment plant, after being stung by public criticism of a bland concrete mock-up last month.

Alan Clapp says he’s seen better days. During an interview Monday, the legendary B.C.

A Victoria lawyer who was considered a free-speech defender by some and hate-speech apologist by others died Monday.

Politicians opened a new wheelchair entrance to the B.C. legislature Monday, improving disability access at the historic capital building.

The B.C. government has moved to limit future financial watchdogs to a single term, at the same time as it accelerates the departure of current auditor general John Doyle.

A Victoria man in his 30s remains in serious condition in the intensive care unit at Victoria General Hospital after being struck on his bicycle by a van Monday. The collision occurred at Bay and Blanshard streets yesterday afternoon at 4:30 p.m.