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Development on the Westshore Speedway property in Langford has turned a corner, with work already underway on phase one of the business park.

A police service dog helped track down a woman who reportedly crashed a stolen vehicle in the Highlands area on Wednesday morning.

A woman was tracked down by a police dog and arrested Wednesday after allegedly crashing a stolen vehicle in the Highlands. West Shore RCMP said they responded to a report of a single-vehicle . . .

, indoor gatherings of any kind and unessential travel in the province are not recommended at this time. Currently, outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people are permitted, but use COVID-19 layers of protection and maintain physical distancing. Please adhere to COVID-19 health and safety measures, including proper physical distancing and frequent hand washing, and   in public indoor and retail spaces. If you are sick, please stay home. A hiker’s paradise awaits just outside of the city, with pl...

“Not taking action on a project like this is the new climate-change denialism,” he said. Richardson said of all the detrimental environmental and health and safety impacts of the mine in the residential community, the biggest and most worrying threat is to the groundwater on which Highlands’ residents rely for their drinking water. “This strip mine site sits right next to a CRD toxic-waste dump. The devastating potential for groundwater contamination is too great a risk to allow,” ...

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Association chairman Scott Richardson said there is too much at stake for the ­community to stop fighting the proposed mine site. “At this point, we have no choice but to exhaust all legal avenues to have this mine stopped,” he said. “By approving this mining permit, the province has usurped our municipality’s ability to define the kind of ­community it wants.” The project is being ­developed by O.K. Industries, which bought the 64-acre property in 2015 for $4.2 million. The compan...