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DRIVE-THRU SERVICE: Liberal MLA Dennis MacKay, who represents the vast riding of Bulkley Valley-Stikine, told the legislature a story this week that illustrates the vast difference between rural and urban B.C.

News item: Unveiled at the American International Toy Show on March 9, 1959, Barbara Millicent Roberts -- better known as the Barbie doll -- hits the half-century mark on Monday.

Flurries and near freezing temperatures across Greater Victoria and Vancouver Island were a less-than-welcome reminder that spring isn't here yet.

The City of Victoria is moving toward offering a 10-year tax holiday to encourage construction of affordable rental units.

Firms face clashes in Island towns as they struggle to make profits

It started with a catchy Pat Benatar song. Matthew Payne, treasurer of Victoria's Professional Arts Alliance, walked into a meeting to discuss the province's cuts to arts funding singing Love Is a Battlefield, after hearing the song on the radio.

An archeology expert has made a mammoth discovery in the cliffs of the Saanich Peninsula. Grant Keddie, curator of archeology at the Royal B.C.

A Cowichan Valley veterinarian and her husband, a wildlife biologist, are leaving Thursday for Chile to help two communities that have gone to the dogs.

Donations, number of shoppers up, sales down slightly from last year

For decades, the pirate-themed home dubbed The Swallowed Anchor in Esquimalt has delighted passersby with its quirky folk art -- a perched mermaid, treasure-chest shop and buccaneer keeping lookout in a crow's nest, to name just a few features.