It's taken more than three years, already cost millions of dollars in studies, tested the patience of the committee and staff dealing with it, seen the West Shore make a step toward independence from the region but finally, a decision is to be made on just where sewage treatment sites will be located.

A looming federal government funding deadline has led the region's sewage committee to recommend two secondary sewage treatment sites that it acknowledges may not be the best locations.

VANCOUVER - It's getting harder to buy a home in B.C. as an increasingly hot real estate market pushes prices higher, according to an RBC report on housing affordability released this morning.

COMOX - A 22-year-old man has been ordered into anger management counseling after a 69-year-old woman flipped him the bird.

COMOX - Courtenay firefighters saved a family pet Tuesday morning after they were called to a house fire at 1754 Lewis Avenue around 7 a.m.

A Victoria police dog tracked down a suspected car thief this morning. The Victoria Police canine unit was on routine patrol early this morning when it spotted a man driving a truck with a smashed-out window, said Victoria Police Staff Sgt. Darren Laur.

It might seem too late, but a new says there is still time for the federal and provincial governments to change orders for expensive waste treatment in the region.

Climate change is happening at a faster pace and having a bigger impact than expected, says a University of Victoria climatologist who helped write a new scientific report.

VANCOUVER - What started out as a quick hike to take photographs of an island in the Strait of Georgia, turned into a three-day battle to survive for Jordan Nicurity.

The B.C. government knew seven months ago about a serious security breach involving sensitive personal information from 1,400 income-assistance clients, yet only notified the affected people last week, the Times Colonist has learned.

Four people died and 109 new severe cases of H1N1 were lab-confirmed in B.C. in the past week, bringing the total number of deaths to 34 since the pandemic began last spring.

Ten thousand doses of a recalled batch of H1N1 vaccine linked to an unusually high number of severe allergic reactions went to southern Vancouver Island.

Carly McDowell and her partner Anthony James collect about four eggs per day from the same number of hens cooped up in the backyard. The couple want the legal right to keep the animals that are in contravention of a city law that bans livestock on city lots smaller than one acre.

Parents are divided over the Nanaimo Minor Hockey Association's decision to sideline a competitive team for 13- and 14-year-old girls. Some people say it's discriminatory and have taken their case to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. Others say the decision was simply based on logistics.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders find themselves in a familiar role after arriving in Calgary yesterday.

They have spent most of their young lives auditioning for one team or another. Tonight at 7 p.m. inside Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre comes another such moment.

VANCOUVER - NDP ferries critic Gary Coons is questioning whether the Northern Adventure - the ferry sometimes dubbed the Vomit Comet - is equipped for the harsh waters and weather of B.C.'s stormy North Coast.

A film industry veteran with extensive experience in marketing, fundraising and government relations has been appointed Victoria's new film commissioner, the board of the Greater Victoria Film Commission announced late Tuesday.

An off-duty B.C. Ferries employee is being credited with saving the life of a 63-year-old man who jumped off the Queen of Burnaby as it sailed from Powell River to Comox Tuesday.

Former Highlands councillor Kenneth Brotherston Sr. told the man he's accused of murdering to put down his gun, saying, "I'm not talking to you while you're holding a gun at my kid," a Crown witness testified Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court.