The Vic High R&B Band is a shining success story. ... Bright-eyed teens revive the hits of Motown and soul greats to an amazingly professional level.... read more

The province is almost doubling the amount of Vancouver Island old-growth forest protected from logging and development.... read more

The Vancouver Island Health Authority has received a disproportionately large number of complaints about health-care services in the past year, according to a report released yesterday.... read more

A cold-case detective issued a public plea yesterday to the person who sent a series of taunting letters to family members, police and the Times Colonist following the 1987 slayings of a young Victoria couple in Washington state.... read more

A plan by a mystery donor offering to spend more than $100,000 on 26 motion-detector solar lights for the Selkirk Trestle is still in the discussion stage with the Capital Regional District.... read more

Convicted investment adviser Ian Thow will be back in a courtroom this fall.... read more

Two suspected car-stomping vandals were arrested by Oceanside RCMP Thursday night.... read more

Illegal activity at a drug house on Prior Street has ebbed six months after a police raid, but one neighbour says the drug deals and rotating cast of nefarious characters remains a problem.... read more

A daring 3 a.m. ... helicopter rescue that saw a crew member lowered into a... read more

RCMP cracked down on dangerous drivers across the province in May, doling out thousands of tickets for drunk driving, speeding and other high-risk activity on the roads.... read more

A 61-year-old Gabriola Island man is dead after his camper van erupted in flames in a fire officials say was likely caused by candles or careless smoking.... read more

A number of steps before implementation of project... read more

B.C. ... has a provincial flower, mineral, tree, bird, mammal and tartan.... read more

DNA tests have confirmed that a missing Duncan woman is the homicide victim whose body was found burned in Glenora this month, but police have not found her killer.... read more

The unusual circumstances surrounding an industrial accident Tuesday, in which a crane overturned at a construction site, could make it exempt from a WorkSafe B.C. ... investigation.... read more

The region's sewage committee voted in favour yesterday of a commission to manage building an almost $800-million centralized secondary sewage treatment system.... read more

A man driving an electric scooter rammed his vehicle into the legs of a man getting out of his car last week in an apparent case of road rage.... read more

The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, a monument to Canada’s honoured place in the study of astronomy, has been recognized as a national historic site.... read more

B.C.’s strict new drunk-driving penalties will come into effect Sept. ... 20, the government announced Wednesday.... read more

The Capital Regional District's sewage committee is to decide today upon the structure of a governing body to shepherd the region's proposed centralized sewage treatment plant through its six-year building stage.... read more