Jared Towers, executive director of Alert Bay's Bay Cetology, says today he can't be 100 per cent sure video he received confirms it's the female killer whale known as kwiisahi?is or Brave Little Hunter, but it's highly likely given the orca's behaviour and the area where it was seen.

Police fired more than 100 rounds in the 26-second shootout in Saanich nearly two years ago, killing 22-year-old twin brothers Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie. Six of the seven police officers in an emergency response team vehicle were wounded.

Darryl Plecas, a former prison judge at Kent who went on to be Speaker of theB.C. Legislature, says he thinks he knows why serial killer Robert Pickton was transferred to a Quebec prison his safety was likely at risk at Kent Institution in B.C.

Health Minister Adrian Dix says the proposed law would amend the province's Name Act to ensure people convicted of dangerous offences can't change their name.

Police are involved in the investigation into a sophisticated attempt to breach protected British Columbia government information systems, Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said Thursday.

The orphaned orca calf, trapped in a lagoon since March 23, near the community of Zeballos,B.C., about 450 kilometres northwest of Victoria, swam toward the ocean in the early hours of April 26.

Ehattesaht First Nation Chief Simon John said the young killer whale swam to an area of the lagoon where members of the neighbouring Nuchatlaht First Nation tossed about 18 kilograms of seal meat into the water on Thursday evening.