With news that the death of local singer, poet, and artist Tempest Grace Gale has been ruled a homicide some Hornby Island residents now believe the “live-and-let-live” culture of Hornby Island may have changed forever.

More members of our community will need a helping hand from Times Colonist readers or they'll go without this holiday season.

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A painfully expensive era in B.C. history will end tomorrow morning when the last of B.C. Ferries' infamous PacifiCats leaves Vancouver harbour for the Persian Gulf.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority has put up a "for sale" sign on Oak Bay Lodge and Mount Tolmie Hospital, both long-term care facilities.

The Capital Regional District's parks committee is taking aim at an estimated $700,000 bill to clean up the site of an old pistol range at Thetis Lake Regional Park.

H1N1 shots are now available to anyone

A wind storm with gusts of more than 70 km/h blew through Greater Victoria on Saturday night.

Colourful lights brighten evening gloom

A man living in a Langford care facility was hospitalized with burns to his feet Saturday after a minor fire.

A woman walking down Sooke Road Friday night was seriously hurt when she was struck by a suspected drunk driver, say West Shore RCMP.

Residents in Duncan returned to their homes this morning to survey the damage and begin cleaning up after floodwaters forced hundreds to flee.

No one has claimed the property of 48-year-old Jeff Hughes, who was shot and killed by police outside his Selby Street apartment in Nanaimo on Oct. 23.

A drunk driving teen hit and seriously hurt a woman walking down Sooke Road last night, say West Shore RCMP.

RCMP are reminding seniors to be cautious about fraud after an unidentified man tried to bilk an elderly woman by claiming he was her grandson.

Westshore RCMP are trying to unravel conflicting stories about how a 21-year-old Langford man had his face slashed by three assailants. First reports indicated a man had been attacked with a knife and samurai-like sword as he walked home from a gym.

Saanich residents returned to their home Thursday evening to find nearly every room ransacked.

The ex-girlfriend of a Colwood man allegedly murdered by a former Highlands councillor and his two sons screamed hysterically as she begged someone to help him, a key Crown witness testified yesterday in B.C. Supreme Court.

A funding boost of $1.6 million will go towards fixing up 21 aging park facilities in Saanich, including repairing the roof of Saanich Commonwealth Place, Saanich-Gulf Islands MP Gary Lunn announced yesterday.

Emergency crews ran pumps through the night and into the early morning Saturday in an effort to combat massive flooding that had prompted the communities of North Cowichan and Duncan on Vancouver Island to declare a state of emergency.