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The Vancouver Island old-growth forest that, over the decades, has sparked bitter confrontations over logging is again in the spotlight after survey tape was found near a grove of massive western red cedars.

A seven-year-old girl drowned at Westwood Lake in 2010 due to a lack of supervision, the B.C. Coroners Service has determined. A tourist found the body of Isabelle Paige MernickleHolmgren in 1.

But Forests Ministry says nothing planned in that area of old growth

It was Victoria's best-kept secret until today, when the location of The Bachelor Canada mansion is finally revealed.

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Mounties are investigating a suspicious fire at a Christina Lake property where the owner once pleaded guilty to feeding bears that apparently guarded a marijuana plantation. RCMP Staff Sgt.

Education Minister George Abbott has rejected calls for a byelection to replace fired members of the Cowichan school board.

B.C. Finance Minister Kevin Falcon announces resignation; Shirley Bond becomes acting finance minister

A man from Leth-bridge, Alta., has been identified as the victim in a crash in southeastern B.C.RCMP say 35 year old Clark Bohmer was killed Monday in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 3 near Sparwood.

By Nathan LeanOn Friday, a Norwegian court ruled that Anders Behring Breivik, who mowed down 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in Oslo in July 2011, was sane.