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The B.C. Liberals announced Sunday that Colwood businessman Chris Ricketts will be their candidate in the riding of Esquimalt-Royal Roads in next spring's provincial election.

WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismissed supporters of President Barack Obama - almost half of U.S.

A Victoria elementary school student who contracted whooping cough last week is recovering on an antibiotic treatment and is expected to return to school soon.

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The 2012 version of the Easter Seals Drop Zone, in which participants rappelled from the 13-storey CIBC building in downtown Victoria, generated more than $140,000 for children with disabilities. Almost 60 people took part in the Thursday event.

The B.C. Liberal party will be taking its name into the next provincial election in May, after a three-member committee ruled out a name change.

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The Raincoast Conservation Foundation, which opposes trophy bear hunting, has put its money where its mouth is with the recent purchase of the hunting rights for 3,500 square kilometres of B.C.’s central coast.

Despite years of multimillion-dollar budget increases and a crime rate on a steady decline, Victoria police say a report to be released this week will explain the department's staffing crisis.

A fourth B.C. New Democrat has announced plans to not run in next year's provincial election. Coquitlam-Malliardville MLA Diane Thorne was first elected in 2005.