Second search for missing B.C. hiker Melissa McDevitt suspended

The BC RCMP Island District said despite deploying more than 80 searchers from 11 different search and rescue agencies, 'nothing of obvious significance was located.'

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Woman arrested for ‘intentionally’ setting fires in woods near Sooke, B.C.: police

Firefighters were called to douse an eight-foot by eight-foot brush fire as well as a tree that was consumed by flames reaching 25 feet in height in the forest near Sooke, Tuesday.

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Search suspended for ‘high-risk’ woman missing near Sooke, B.C.

Monday would have been the ninth day of the search for 38-year-old Melissa McDevitt who Vancouver Island police said was believed to be in the Sooke Pot Holes area.

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Search for high-risk, missing female hiker expanded in Sooke, B.C.

There are 17 search teams and 170 personnel from across B.C. participating in Saturday's search for Melissa McDevitt, who has been missing for seven days.

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