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The Sierra Club says B.C. is vastly underreporting its greenhouse gas emissions by not counting pollution from forest and fossil fuel exports.

By Susan MartinukGiven this week’s turmoil in the Middle East, two seemingly unrelated events from last Friday may be quite significant to Canada’s future.

A University of Victoria professor, under the microscope for months as the B.C. government investigated a privacy breach scandal, only learned of the details of the allegations against her on Thursday, her lawyer says.

A 13th person has died from legionnaires' disease in Quebec City. The outbreak has led to 177 recorded cases. Officials believe the illness is under control because no one has become sick since Aug. 29.

A former high-profile B.C. NDP politician and a Green party law professor are the latest in a growing number of would-be candidates to jump into the race to replace Victoria MP Denise Savoie, who resigned last month.

Wildlife rehabilitators are searching for the owners of an African spurred tortoise, a species usually found in the Sahara desert, that was picked up meandering along Cowichan Lake Road.

Darcy William Kozak has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 23 years for the second-degree murders of two men.“Mr. Kozak’s acts were a manifestation of incomprehensible evil,” B.C.

A woman is in critical but stable condition in Victoria General Hospital after the van she was driving collided head on with a semi-trailer on the highway between Port Alberni and Parksville.Port Alberni RCMP Const.

'Review' of bargaining mandate comes in the heat of negotiations

B.C. Transit's new vehicle choice met with concern over accessibility