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Victoria News Mar 18 to 24, 2018

Jaw broken, no charges

Jaw broken, no charges

Victoria Mar 23, 2018 / 3:49 pm

British Columbia's prosecution service says no charges have been approved against three RCMP officers involved in arresting a woman who broke her jaw while...

Mayor unfriending Facebook

Mayor unfriending Facebook

Victoria Mar 23, 2018 / 6:46 am

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps says she's quitting Facebook's "toxic echo chamber." "When I became mayor, Facebook was still a civil...

New approach to LNG

New approach to LNG

Victoria Mar 22, 2018 / 12:43 pm

Premier John Horgan has introduced new Liquid Natural Gas rules as part of a new approach to natural gas development. The British Columbia government is...

Landlords get too personal

Landlords get too personal

Victoria Mar 22, 2018 / 12:19 pm

British Columbia's privacy office says some landlords are asking prospective tenants for too much personal information, including three months worth of bank...

City manager charged

City manager charged

Nanaimo Mar 22, 2018 / 8:04 am

More turmoil in the Harbour city council chambers. Court documents obtained by CTV Vancouver Island, show an application for a peace bond has been filed against...

Awarded for icy rescue

Awarded for icy rescue

Victoria Mar 22, 2018 / 6:45 am

A hiking date on Vancouver Island for two friends turned into a life-saving rescue from the edge of a frigid waterfall that earned Janson Chapman a bravery...

TSB probes smoky flight

TSB probes smoky flight

Nanaimo Mar 21, 2018 / 11:11 am

UPDATE: 11:10 a.m. Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board are being sent to Vancouver Island to determine why thick smoke suddenly filled the cabin...

Drones fight fires

Drones fight fires

Victoria Mar 21, 2018 / 7:58 am

B.C. firefighters have a new weapon in the war against flames. Victoria firefighters, for the first time, used an unmanned aerial drone equipped with a thermal...

Drive-by shooting

Drive-by shooting

Nanaimo Mar 21, 2018 / 7:36 am

RCMP are investigating shots fired in Nanaimo. Mounties responded to a report of gunfire at a home which was shot six times Tuesday morning – prompting...

A look at BC's new L-G

A look at BC's new L-G

Victoria Mar 20, 2018 / 10:32 am

UPDATE: 10:30 a.m. British Columbia's next lieutenant-governor has a deep background in working with social and government organizations in the province....

Shots fired at home

Shots fired at home

Nanaimo Mar 20, 2018 / 9:54 am

Police say there were no injuries after several shots were fired today at a home in Nanaimo. The RCMP says they responded to a home on Wildlife Place about 6:15...

BC heroes save family

BC heroes save family

Victoria Mar 20, 2018 / 7:43 am

A couple of B.C. brothers are being hailed as heroes Tuesday after they saved their brother and grandmother from a burning house. The incident happened in...

One-eyed owl back in wild

One-eyed owl back in wild

Vancouver Island Mar 18, 2018 / 9:01 pm

A one-eyed Great Horned Owl is back in the wild. SPCA’s Wild ARC rehabilitation centre in Metchosin released the owl after a month of rehabilitation. The...

Gov. General in BC

Gov. General in BC

Victoria Mar 18, 2018 / 7:44 pm

Canada’s Governor General will make her first official visit to British Columbia this week. Julie Payette will be welcomed Tuesday during a ceremony at...

Thor surfs in Tofino

Thor surfs in Tofino

Tofino Mar 18, 2018 / 7:04 pm

When he is not saving the universe, it turns out Thor surfs. Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Thor in the Marvel films, is in Vancouver filming a movie and...

Family still seeks answers

Family still seeks answers

Vancouver Island Mar 18, 2018 / 8:53 am

It has been over a year since 16-year-old Makayla Chang disappeared. The young woman was last seen outside a downtown Nanaimo Tim Hortons on March 17, 2017....

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