Mount Washington hosted the fifth Frontrunners Coastline Endurance Vancouver Island Trail Racing Series race, Aug. 12, with an eight-kilometre short course and a 14km long course. To the delight of runners and race organizers, the smoke from the B.C. Interior fires cleared off the morning of the race to provide fantastic views for the 150 runners who took up the challenge of what is likely the toughest of the race series.

Ten to 18-year-olds got an extra three minutes of sleep for a 10-minute delay in school start time

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鈥淎ll you want is to photograph and poke, even if the animal suffers from stress.鈥�

Vancouver Island traffic up, misinformation a problem

Comox flag-bearer Tracy Howlett-Cooney carried the Invictus Games flag on the first stop of its 37-day journey to Toronto.

The award is given to a maritime book published the preceding year.

Senior judges will serve B.C.-wide, new judges head to Penticton, Kelowna and Kamloops

Kelowna was a key location in a Surrey gang鈥檚 drug trafficking network before a war broke out鈥�

New research suggests four-fifths of those ages 25-30 don鈥檛 think they can buy in the next five years