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Council ponders partial privatization of Brennan Park, removal of campground and $1-million splash park

Three Squamish initiatives are being funded by federal grants

Firehall, computer systems, watermains among the spending items

Deighton and X̱áliya were wed in 1870

Suspicious people. Hit and run. Driving under the influence. Car scratchers.

Thousands of coho are expected to return to spawn when the $800,000 Millstream Fish Ladder Project is completed in a few months. Right now, the annual coho return ranges from 250 to 750. An additional 3,000 fish are expected.

Hospitals will be allowed to keep youths for up to seven days after an overdose, to allow time to stabilize them, contact a parent and create a plan for voluntary help, under rule changes being proposed by the province.

The wily marmot that eluded animal-control officers at a construction site in downtown Victoria on Sunday doesn’t come as a surprise to Ian Fraser.

A hiker who got trapped overnight in steep and snowy drainage on Mount Seymour this weekend was long-lined to safety Sunday morning by North Shore Rescue after spending a night on the mountain.

Margo and Ian Sheldon tried to have a baby for six years, enduring the pain of multiple miscarriages and a full-term still birth. Last week, four days apart, their two babies arrived.