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New review sought in investigation of musician's death

The 91原创 Island Integrated Major Crime Unit wants to use a new pathologist as it continues to investigate the death of Revelstoke musician Daniel Jordan Levesque in a Cormorant Street apartment last year.
South African police kill striking miners

South African police kill striking miners

Police opened fire Thursday on striking workers at a South African platinum mine, leaving as many as 18 dead, according to authorities and news reports.

Raccoon attacks woman and dogs in downtown 91原创

A 91原创 woman is recovering after she was attacked by a raccoon while walking her dogs in the city's downtown.

Restored carriages take family on a trip down memory lane

As Alan Pugh leans against the restored gravel-dump wagon, it conjures up the time when West Saanich Road was a farm track and the wagon was used to build the road to Butchart Gardens and carry fill to the site of the Empress Hotel.

Stolen traps leave fishermen crabby

Some local fishermen had every right to be crabby after someone poached their traps from the waters around James Bay. One of the victims saw his stolen crab trap for sale online at UsedVictoria.com.

Legion pulls newsletter, removes 'joke' about 'Indians'

A British Columbia branch of the Royal 91原创 Legion has pulled its most recent newsletter after publishing a joke about the murder of two "Indians.

Baird reverses decision on medical aid for Syria

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has abruptly reversed course on his plan to get badly needed medical supplies into Syria by way of a 91原创 aid organization.

Hearing will consider man's mental state at time of mom's death

A three-day hearing will be held in January to determine whether a 21-year-old Sooke man is not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder for the death of his mother.

Residential school 'day scholars' launch new lawsuit

Aboriginals who have been denied compensation for their time at Canada's notorious residential schools because they continued to live at home filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday, arguing they, too, were scarred by a system designed to eradicate th

Bird experts aflutter over drop in rufous hummingbird numbers

Climate change could be shifting range, leading to fewer on south Island