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• Work begins on new Victoria home for at-risk women

  The Anawim Companion Society has broken ground on a new housing facility that will provide a safe haven for Greater Victoria women who are at risk of homelessness or who are fleeing violence.

  

• Island wildlife rescue facility implements avian flu precautions

  Staff and volunteers at the Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society (MARS) in Merville are busy securing their property after the recent discovery of a case of avian flu in the Comox Valley.

  

• 'It was a total wreck': Nanaimo family escapes house fire

  A large foster family escaped an evening house fire in central Nanaimo, which ruined their home and damaged another next door.

  

• No kids injured after school bus crash on Vancouver Island

  No children were injured following a collision between a school bus and car in the Comox Valley on Wednesday morning.

  

• 'Cougar' spotted in Vancouver neighbourhood was actually a large house cat: police

  Police were called to a Vancouver neighbourhood for reports of a cougar sighting in the area. What they found was something else.

• B.C. mom who suffocated 8-year-old daughter loses appeal of sentence

  A B.C. woman who was convicted of killing her eight-year-old daughter by suffocating her with a plastic bag has lost her bid to have her sentence reduced, according to a decision from the B.C. Court of Appeal.

• Another injured hiker airlifted from Vancouver Island's West Coast Trail

  Just weeks after a U.S. man suffered a life-changing injury on B.C.'s West Coast Trail, search and rescue teams were called to another hiking emergency.

• Greater Victoria School District urges parents to speak with kids after rash of youth crimes

  The Greater Victoria School District (SD61) is asking families to speak with their children after a rash of recent crimes by youth in Victoria.

• 'That's momhood': Breastfeeding B.C. woman saves pet goose from eagle attack

  A front door camera at a home in British Columbia captured the moment when a woman saved her pet goose from an eagle attack, while also nursing her newborn.

• Premier meets with B.C. doctors ahead of rally at legislature

  Amid growing tensions with family doctors and frustration from the public, the premier met with physicians ahead of a "wear your colours" rally they're organizing on the government's doorstep.

• Chantel Moore shot by N.B. police officer in chest, abdomen and leg, inquest hears

  Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman killed by police in New Brunswick in June 2020, was shot twice in the chest, once in the abdomen and once in her left leg, the pathologist who conducted an autopsy on her said Wednesday.

• Victoria woman raises orphaned goat, brings her to work

  Adam finds out how an unexpected past turned a woman and a young goat into unlikely colleagues.

• Suspicious fire destroys horse barns at Port Alberni fairgrounds

  Firefighters and police are investigating a suspicious fire at the Alberni District Fall Fair grounds in Port Alberni, B.C., after two horse barns were completely destroyed.

• Are grocery shoppers being gouged? Analyst suspects inflation 'profiteering'

  As grocery shoppers face sticker shock week after week, some are questioning whether inflation is fully to blame for rising prices.