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A cosmic show lit up both the skies over Vancouver Island as well as social media Sunday evening.

Targa Tasmania race suffers another fatal crash, with two dead, a day after 68-year-old driver killed By Ros Lehman and Angela Ross © Provided by ABC NEWS A witness says the car left the straight stretch of road and crashed into gum trees. (ABC News: Chris Rowbottom) A driver and co-driver have been killed in a fatal crash on the final day of Targa Tasmania, a day after a 68-year-old driver died in another stage of the rally race. The latest crash occurred on Wattle Grove Roa...

One dead in Targa Tasmania rally crash One person has reportedly been killed in a serious crash on Day 5 of the Targa Tasmania rally, which has been hit by bad weather. News 23rd Apr 2021 1:34 PM The 2021 Targa Tasmania rally has been marred by tragedy after a person was killed on Day 5 of the event, local media have reported. According to The Mercury, the crash occurred on the second half of Mount Arrowsmith, which was plagued by wet weather at the time of t...

Much-loved and experienced car racer Shane Navin has died in a horror crash at the Targa Tasmania rally on Friday.   The 68-year-old driver from New South Wales rolled his 1979 Mazda RX7 amid heavy rain and slippery conditions.  His co-driver Glenn Evans miraculously survived the crash and emerged from the wreckage uninjured.   Navins tragic death is now the third fatality at the world-renowned rally event in last ten years.   Much-loved racer and experienced car racer Shane Navin (pictu...

  NANAIMO -- Over the past two weekends, the Canadian Forces have provided flare illumination to ground search and rescue crews on Vancouver Island during night rescue missions on top of two mountain peaks. On Saturday night, 442 Squadron out of Comox assisted Nanaimo Search and Rescue as they helped an injured hiker on. Mt Benson. One week before that, a similar scene took place on Mount Arrowsmith as Port Alberni Search and Rescue crews needed assistance to rescue three injured hikers. ...

  VICTORIA -- Three lost hikers, two of whom were seriously injured, were rescued by search teams from Mount Arrowsmith on Vancouver Island on Sunday. Search manager Dave Poulsen of the Alberni Valley Rescue Squad says the hikers called for assistance around 3 p.m. Poulson says the trio were inexperienced and had not attempted to climb Mount Arrowsmith before. The hikers had taken a popular trail, Judges Route, up the mountain but had lost the trail coming back down. “They had ended up ...