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BC Hydro has announced, after several failed pilot projects, that it will no longer allow power poles to be adorned with community art.

Live Nation presented Carly Rae Jepson at the Royal Theatre Sunday in Victoria. She performed a 22-song set. Toronto's RALPH opened the show.

Thousands of vintage cars are back in Victoria for a popular event that's only held once every three years – Northwest Deuce Days.

Rapper Snoop Dogg headlined the Laketown Shakedown Music Festival held over the long weekend in the Cowichan Valley, joined by Smash Mouth, Grandson, The Faceplants, Incubus, Jesse Roper, and more.

Live Nation presented Corey Hart at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre for the Never Surrender Tour Mon., June 24, 2019.

Hundreds of thousands of Toronto Raptors fans attend the team's victory parade.

Dozens of firefighters attacked a raging fire that broke out in the vacant Plaza Hotel in downtown Victoria, right behind CTV Vancouver Island's studio.

Archived photos provided by Glen Mofford show the history of Victoria's Plaza Hotel, destroyed in a massive fire Monday.

A pod of Bigg's killer whales was spotted off the coast of British Columbia on Sunday, April 7, 2019.

Moon vs Sun, the first-time collaboration between couple Chantal Kreviazuk and Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida, came to the McPherson Playhouse in Victoria as part of a cross-Canada tour.

The USS Zumwalt, the U.S. Navy's largest and most advanced destroyer, visits Victoria on March 11, 2019. (CTV Vancouver Island)

From its humble beginnings in Shirley, B.C., Sheringham Distillery has taken the honour of 'World's Best Contemporary Gin' at the 2019 World Gin Awards in London, England.

Vancouver Island was covered with a heavier than expected snowfall Sunday, with up to 40 centimetres falling in Ladysmith while Victoria broke a daily record with 16 centimeteres of snow.

Red carpet looks and show highlights from the 61st Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Live Nation presented a Matthew Good solo acoustic show with season one winner of CTV's The Launch, POESY, live at a sold out McPherson Playhouse Tuesday night.

Many British Columbians looked to the sky Monday and saw massive holes seemingly 'punched out' of the cloud cover. Here are a few pictures of the weather phenomenon known as 'fallstreak holes.'

Supporters of Venzuela's new self-declared president Jaun Guaido rallied on the steps of the B.C. Legislature in Victoria Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019.

Through photos posted with the home's listing, tour a Vancouver detached home in need of 'a LOT of TLC,' listed for $998,000.

Check out some photos of the super wolf blood moon

Demonstrators took to the streets across the country and parts of the U.S. for the annual Women's March.

More than 60 world leaders walked somberly through the centre of Paris to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War.

A look back at some photos of Stan Lee, the comic book genius, who died on Nov. 12 at the age of 95.

Would you stay in a mansion with mannequins walking on the ceiling, or a clown motel with a graveyard view?

Photos from CTV Vancouver's David Molko show the inside of the first BC Cannabis Store.

Canadians across the country lined up outside stores where legal cannabis is sold, and also celebrated the end of marijuana prohibition.

Roughly the size of a coffee cup, the Northern Saw-Whet owl is the focus of a study trying to determine whether two brutal wildfire seasons have led to a decline in their population.

Daniel Caesar, Jessie Reyez, Lights, Current Swell and Beardyman were among the acts who rocked the 2018 Rifflandia Festival in Victoria, B.C.

Some of television's biggest and brightest stars have descended for the 2018 Emmy Awards. See highlights here.

Parts of the Carolinas area dealing with widespread flooding after Hurricane Florence.

Actor Mahershala Ali, Hilary Swank, Nicole Kidman and Octavia Spencer were among the many stars that attended galas and graced the red carpet.

A powerful typhoon blew through western Japan, causing heavy rain to flood the region's main offshore international airport and high winds to blow a tanker into a connecting bridge, disrupting land and air travel.

The B.C. government says although wildfires have broken last year's record for the area of land burned, the human impacts have been much lower.

Air quality advisories were issued in western Canada due to the ongoing haze created by the hundreds of wildfires burning across B.C.

The annual pop culture convention officially kicked off Wednesday night in San Diego and fans are already showing off their costumes.

Thousands of people took to the streets of London to protest Donald Trump's visit.

After spending two weeks trapped in a flooded cave, 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued.

Demonstrators suspended themsleves from a busy Metro Vancouver bridge in an attempt to block an oil tanker from leaving a Kinder Morgan facility.

MARS Wildlife Rescue Centre in Merville, B.C., has a very adorable problem on its hands: A dozen raccoons including some as young as one month old.

A dozen volunteers safely relocated the bones of a grey whale that was buried at the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District's West Coast Landfill.