Victoria News‹ Oct 21 to 27, 2018 ›
Biker club president busted
The president of the Vancouver Island-based Devil's Army Motorcycle Club has been charged with murder. Ricky Alexander is facing first-degree murder charges...
Resigns over allegations
Hornby Island trustee Tony Law, who was only re-elected last week, has announced he is stepping down from the position. A news release from Islands Trust, a...
Safety mess before rail crash
Decaying railroad ties and the failure of a safety mechanism to prevent a train derailment are cited in a report by WorkSafeBC as factors in a crash that killed...
Fish boat dragged by ferry
BC Ferries says it will be speaking with Fisheries and Oceans Canada after a ferry snagged a partially submerged fishing net Wednesday in waters off Nanaimo....
Biodome stunt goes bad
A YouTube science experiment backfired for a Vancouver Island man. Kurtis Baute sealed himself in an airtight greenhouse on Wednesday with the plan to survive...
School flasher sought
Police are looking for a flasher who exposed his genitals to a group of students in Courtenay. The students were outside Lake Trail Middle School Monday...
MP to seek MLA's seat
Federal New Democrat MP Sheila Malcolmson says she plans to leave federal politics to seek the provincial NDP nomination in the upcoming byelection in Nanaimo....
$48K fine for killing tree
A suburban Victoria man has been fined $48,000 after admitting to poisoning a stately old chestnut tree in Oak Bay. Neighbour Sharon Krebs noticed its leaves...
Ice bomb fell from the sky
Transport Canada is investigating after a large chunk of ice fell from the sky, smashing the windshield of a Lantzville man's truck. Peter Marshall heard a...
Sasquatch spotted - sort of
Sasquatch has been spotted on Quadra Island – sort of. While the elusive ape-like beast has not been officially recognized as being real, the 225 kilogram...
Suspect took his own life
B.C.'s police watchdog says a man killed in a shootout in Nanaimo earlier this year took his own life. An Independent Investigations Office report into the...