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Murder suspect nabbed in Nanaimo after being stopped for cycling without helmet

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

A Nanaimo RCMP bike patrol officer helped nab a Toronto-area man wanted on murder charges after the man was stopped for riding a bike without a helmet.Bike patrol officers were riding around Barsby . . .

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If cougar attacks, be aggressive, make noise, Saanich police advise after three...

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Jack Knox: First Nations at odds over logging of reserve land on Saturna Island

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Salmon-research team on Russian trawler has low catch

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Car runs into five others then ends up perched on sixth at Beacon Hill Park

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Cadboro Bay-area resident scares off cougar as it attacks deer

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Second heart transplant for former soccer star Simon Keith

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Mailboxes broken into in Courtenay and Comox

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Study explores passenger-only West Shore-downtown ferry service

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Woman sexually assaulted by man with a knife in Gordon Head area

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Victoria Muslims strive to come to grips with New Zealand massacre

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This isn’t what voters wanted, councillor says of Victoria’s vision

Bill Cleverley / Times Colonist

From pioneering zero-waste initiatives to replacing non-native flowers with native plantings, Victoria’s strategic plan is full of a lot of expensive actions that residents never said they wanted, . . .

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Care workers won’t lose jobs, Island Health says

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

Island Health told Beacon Community Services home-support employees on Friday that all of them can keep their jobs when the health authority takes over as their employer in November. The health . . .

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Hundreds of tiny tremors recorded between Victoria and Seattle

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

It’s not the type of tweet you want to read just before bedtime. “Several hundred tiny tremors (not felt) between Victoria and Seattle in the past 24 hours,” Earthquake guy posted Tuesday night. . . .

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Courtenay man killed in plane crash remembered as ‘beacon of kindness’

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist / The Canadian Press

A Courtenay man who friends describe as “a bright light” and “a beacon of kindness” was among the 18 Canadians killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday. Micah Messent was on board Flight . . .

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Victoria Police Department, city council stuck in budget stalemate

Bill Cleverley,  Lindsay Kines / Times Colonist

After more than two hours of discussion on Thursday, Victoria councillors were unable to agree on a police budget. Police Chief Del Manak warned that he would have to cut nine civilian positions . . .

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Ashes to ashes, coast to coast, Biker Bob roars back home

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

Biker Bob asked his wife to load his ashes and a twenty-sixer of Crown Royal into his canoe and push it out to the middle of Kootenay Lake. “He wanted that bottle in with him,” said Maudine . . .

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Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

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