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BC lawyer disciplined for suppressing information in Port Alberni murder case

BC lawyer disciplined for suppressing information in Port Alberni murder case

Vancouver Island Jun 21, 2020 / 6:43 am

A former deputy regional Crown prosecutor who suppressed information in a murder case that involved the death of a Port Alberni woman in 2006, has agreed not to...

Return of BC legislature to look different under pandemic

Return of BC legislature to look different under pandemic

Victoria Jun 21, 2020 / 6:00 am

In a building where face-to-face debates between political opponents are normal activities, the British Columbia legislature will be a much different place when...

BC mother of daughter shot dead by police calls for justice

BC mother of daughter shot dead by police calls for justice

Victoria Jun 19, 2020 / 6:36 am

A grieving mother says she wants justice for her daughter, Chantel Moore, who was fatally shot by police in Edmundston, N.B., earlier this month during a check...

Rural residents escape injury after bullet rips through home

Rural residents escape injury after bullet rips through home

Quadra Island Jun 18, 2020 / 1:29 pm

Two Quadra Island residents are lucky they weren’t injured or killed after a high-calibre bullet tore into their home Friday night, RCMP say. “They...

Escapees shouldn't have been at minimum-security prison: mayor

Escapees shouldn't have been at minimum-security prison: mayor

Vancouver Island Jun 17, 2020 / 6:53 am

The mayor of a Vancouver Island community where two inmates are accused of murdering a man after they escaped from a minimum-security prison says they never...

Host parents not liable for fatal crash after party: B.C. Supreme Court

Host parents not liable for fatal crash after party: B.C. Supreme Court

Salt Spring Island Jun 16, 2020 / 5:12 pm

Two parents have been found not legally responsible for a fatal crash involving two teenagers who had been partying at the couple's home in British...

Vancouver Island First Nation calls for jail's closure, land return

Vancouver Island First Nation calls for jail's closure, land return

Vancouver Island Jun 16, 2020 / 10:56 am

Sc’ianew First Nation Chief Coun. Russ Chipps wants Vancouver Island's William Head prison closed and the land returned to First Nations following the...

Former regional Crown prosecutor disbarred for 5 years for failing to manage evidence in murder case

Former regional Crown prosecutor disbarred for 5 years for failing to manage evidence in murder case

Vancouver Island Jun 16, 2020 / 10:55 am

A former regional Crown prosecutor on Vancouver Island has been banned from practicing law for five years for failing to properly manage evidence in a homicide...

Americans sailing north to Alaska causing waves of worry on Vancouver Island

Americans sailing north to Alaska causing waves of worry on Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island Jun 15, 2020 / 4:17 pm

A small stream of Alaska-bound American pleasure boats continues to travel along the east coast of Vancouver Island, despite a border closure barring...

Car jumped median, slammed by oncoming SUV in Nanaimo

Car jumped median, slammed by oncoming SUV in Nanaimo

Nanaimo Jun 15, 2020 / 9:21 am

A fatal crash claimed the life of a woman in Nanaimo Sunday evening. A compact car and an SUV collided just after 7 p.m. on Highway 19A when the car jumped a...

Missing man presumed overboard off northern Vancouver Island

Missing man presumed overboard off northern Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island Jun 15, 2020 / 9:10 am

A Vancouver Island man is missing and presumed fallen overboard after his boat washed ashore on an island near Port McNeill. RCMP say 71-year-old Gary Ritchie...

Men who escaped prison last July have been charged with murder

Men who escaped prison last July have been charged with murder

Vancouver Island Jun 13, 2020 / 3:20 pm

Two inmates who escaped William Head prison almost a year ago have been charged in the killing of a Metchosin man. James Lee Busch and Zachary Armitage have...

B.C. dad who campaigned for stem-cell donations dies

B.C. dad who campaigned for stem-cell donations dies

Victoria Jun 13, 2020 / 10:29 am

A Victoria father who fought for greater ethnic diversity in Canada’s stem-cell donor pool has died of leukemia after he was unable to find a donor match....

Nanaimo woman's racist Facebook post sparks online petition

Nanaimo woman's racist Facebook post sparks online petition

Nanaimo Jun 12, 2020 / 10:46 am

A Nanaimo woman has come under fire for a series of racist, threatening comments on social media. In reference to the killing of George Floyd by a white...

Graffiti-hit Chinatown school in Victoria buoyed by paper hearts

Graffiti-hit Chinatown school in Victoria buoyed by paper hearts

Victoria Jun 11, 2020 / 9:56 am

Kileasa Wong has seen the best and worst of people in the past few days. The principal of the Victoria Chinese Public School was stunned last week to learn that...

Court rules conservation officer who refused to kill cubs was improperly dismissed

Court rules conservation officer who refused to kill cubs was improperly dismissed

Vancouver Island Jun 10, 2020 / 1:20 pm

A former conservation officer who was fired for refusing to kill two bear cubs near Port Hardy in 2015 is feeling vindicated by a court decision that determined...

Defunding police - what would that look like?

Defunding police - what would that look like?

Victoria Jun 10, 2020 / 9:50 am

Imagine a situation where, instead of calling 911, someone in mental-health distress calls a hotline which summons a mental-health professional. Imagine a harm...

'Devasting' season for whale watching amid COVID shutdown

'Devasting' season for whale watching amid COVID shutdown

Vancouver Island Jun 10, 2020 / 7:42 am

As whale watching companies cautiously count down to a possible reopening July 1, many are saying the economic damage from the pandemic shutdown has already...

Climber seriously injured in fall near peak of Mount Arrowsmith

Climber seriously injured in fall near peak of Mount Arrowsmith

Vancouver Island Jun 8, 2020 / 9:50 am

As a man lay seriously injured just below the summit of Mount Arrowsmith on Vancouver Island Saturday evening, three search and rescue teams raced against the...

Huge Victoria demonstration adds to rising voices against racism

Huge Victoria demonstration adds to rising voices against racism

Victoria Jun 8, 2020 / 9:22 am

Several thousand people gathered in downtown Victoria Sunday to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd's death...

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