Victoria

Letters Dec. 3: Beacon Hill Park not that bad; questions about heritage
Posted on 05 December 2020A recent letter asked readers to believe that anyone opining publicly that residential schools br ...

Opioid crisis deaths filling Victoria’s hospital crypts
Posted on 05 December 2020B.C.’s opioid fatality crisis is at the point where the BC Coroners Service needs a list of ava ...

Greater Victoria 4-H members among winners in provincewide cooking competition
Posted on 05 December 2020Six Greater Victoria 4-H club members and 14 others from around the province were honoured recentl ...

Change made to insurance for B.C. condo owners amid rising premiums
Posted on 05 December 2020Insurance companies in British Columbia have agreed to end a pricing practice that has been identi ...

B.C. records 12 more COVID-19 deaths as top doctor warns against non-essential travel
Posted on 05 December 2020VICTORIA — British Columbia's top doctor says COVID-19 cases have levelled off in the Fraser and ...

More than 10,000 people in B.C. under active monitoring after COVID-19 exposures
Posted on 05 December 2020VICTORIA — British Columbia recorded 656 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday as officials urged residents ...

Hotel fire in Victoria that injured at least 6 people treated as probable arson
Posted on 05 December 2020Firefighters in Victoria are treating a hotel fire Thursday night that injured several people as a p ...

Victoria ranked among top 5 small cities in the world by British magazine
Posted on 05 December 2020Despite a global pandemic, Victoria, B.C., is still one of the best "small cities" in the world, a ...

Victoria-area man arrested, fined twice for refusing to wear a face mask
Posted on 05 December 2020A Vancouver Island man has been fined twice by police for refusing to wear a face mask at two sepa ...

City of Victoria hails Warrior Games Athletes
Posted on 31 July 2019Four Victoria-based athletes from Canada’s 2019 Warrior Games team were presented Letters of A ...

Victoria ponders plastic-bags ban appeal, new rules
Posted on 31 July 2019Victoria city councillors will decide in early September whether to appeal a B.C. court decision ...

Sixties Scoop settlement tour stops in Victoria
Posted on 31 July 2019An information session about the Sixties Scoop class action settlement will take place Wednesday i ...

New, hands-on dinosaur lab opens in Victoria
Posted on 31 July 2019There’s a lady in town many people will want to meet; standing at 20 feet tall, Victoria has a ...

Seaspan secures long-term navy maintenance contract in Victoria
Posted on 31 July 2019VICTORIA, B.C. – Long-term work has been secured for shipyards trades workers in Victoria with ...

Greater Victoria construction pace slows
Posted on 31 July 2019Government policy designed to cool the housing market has played a role in slowing the pace of a ...

Jack Knox: Lisa J. Helps is not the mayor of Victoria, but she gets the mayor’s hate mail
Posted on 31 July 2019Of course, that doesn’t stop the online trolls from getting mixed up and hounding the Vancouv ...