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Victoria News Oct 21 to 27, 2018

Biker club president busted

Biker club president busted

Vancouver Island Oct 27, 2018 / 8:14 am

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

Resigns over allegations

Hornby Island Oct 26, 2018 / 4:34 pm

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

Safety mess before rail crash

Vancouver Island Oct 25, 2018 / 1:45 pm

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

Fish boat dragged by ferry

Nanaimo Oct 25, 2018 / 12:00 pm

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

Biodome stunt goes bad

Vancouver Island Oct 25, 2018 / 6:44 am

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

School flasher sought

Courtenay Oct 25, 2018 / 6:21 am

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

MP to seek MLA's seat

Nanaimo Oct 24, 2018 / 12:28 pm

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

$48K fine for killing tree

Vancouver Island Oct 24, 2018 / 6:36 am

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

Ice bomb fell from the sky

Vancouver Island Oct 24, 2018 / 6:25 am

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 spotted - sort of

Quadra Island Oct 23, 2018 / 9:14 pm

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

Suspect took his own life

Nanaimo Oct 22, 2018 / 12:56 pm

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...

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