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Over five frantic minutes, bidders for two rare 17th century Ming chairs that sat virtually unnoticed in Victoria’s St. Matthias Anglican church for years sold for $630,000 at Sotheby’s New York auction today.

Victoria firefighters were called to fires at Finlayson Point beach, where flames threatened a cinder-dry embankment, on Saturday and Sunday.

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TODAY Deva Premal and Miten in concert, 7: 30 p.m. at Alix Goolden Hall, 900 Johnson St. Tickets at Full Circle Studio Arts, tel. 2509204037, beyondthemindevents.com or at the door. Tel.

Security workers walked off the job this morning and set up pickets outside the campus security building at the University of Victoria as unions warned that job action will increase in the coming days.

Blasts intended to scare birds off crops annoy neighbours

BEIRUT — Syria’s most prominent defector said in an interview that aired Monday that he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country’s civil war and that he is confident the opposition can topple President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Deer control: Let people vote with their wallets Are we the only taxpayers exasperated by the sense of entitlement exhibited by those who believe our local municipality should control the deer population on their behalf, yet another new government pr

A suspect has been arrested and is expected to be charged later today as part of a homicide investigation into the death of a 28-year-old Port Hardy woman.

A suspicious package left on a B.C. Transit bus near Victoria’s legislature that forced an evacuation of the area was not an explosive and is not considered to have been planted deliberately, police said.