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Saanich police are looking for a group of teenagers seen running from the scene of a burning bush that threatened the safety of a seniors’ building Friday.

This editorial appeared in the Calgary Herald on Friday, Nov. 16.It isn’t just Canadians who suffer sticker shock with the growing number of fees applied to their airline tickets.

Saving B.C.'s troubled wild salmon stocks while improving the health of farmed Atlantic salmon raised along the B.C. coast may be a simple matter of timing.

A commercial fish opening off Cowichan Bay has netted 150,000 chum salmon for the market, making it the most successful opening in years. Dozens of gill-net and seine fishboats took part in the fishery, which began Nov. 3 and wound up this week.

SASKATOON — Saskatoon archeologist Butch Amundson say he’s thrilled by the discovery of what is believed to the wreck of a steamship that sank in the South Saskatchewan River more than a century ago.

Victoria Coun. Geoff Young has announced he will not run again for chairman of the board of the Capital Regional District. Young, elected chairman in 2009, said Thursday that his four-year term was longer than he expected.

Victoria’s unofficial kickoff to the Christmas season starts Saturday as Santa makes an early appearance in the Island Farms Santa Light Parade.

The ferry that bears the Harbour City's name is nearing retirement after more than 48 years on the water. The MV Queen of Nanaimo had its inaugural run on June 5, 1964. The vessel - the seventh built for B.C.

ANDERSON, Gerald Wayne (Gerry) January 8, 1936 - November 11, 2012 Gerry passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family.