Every story we’ve filed on Victoria and the South Island — newest first. 1,857 and counting.
News
Only four hospital beds exist in Victoria for people presenting with an emergency mental health issue. If you’re non-violent but experiencing a severe psychiatric crisis in Victoria, there’s basically nowhere to go
Politics
Witnesses said officers dragged a man 50 metres by his arms which were handcuffed around his back
News
Spooky ruins, crashed planes, famous murder weapons and some very, very tall trees
Events
Canada Day events, a new slate of outdoor markets and of course the Big Gay Dog Walk
News
Even with nearly 500,000 dead, the world dodged a bullet in terms of what could have been. The economy, however, may never be the same.
News
Chinese-Canadians may have done more than any single community to shield Western Canada from the worst excesses of COVID-19
Health
Victoria and Salt Spring Island show rock-bottom rates of childhood vaccination
Events
Trivia nights, sessions to help reopen through COVID-19 and 'theatre home delivery' service
News
Mobs had sought vengeance against the city's Germans, but succeeded only in shattering their own downtown
Health
A UBC study attributed the spike in broken male genitals to the unintended consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns
News
It doesn't stick to surfaces as much as we thought, and is particularly slow to spread outdoors
News
Canadian police face a "significant increase" in mental health-related calls, and as the killing of Vancouver Island woman Chantel Moore shows, sometimes these calls can go terribly wrong
News
Rise is due in part to the city’s own decision to greenlight rezoning for the site
News
According to experts, BC’s embattled killer whales are now enjoying quieter seas and increased fish
News
In peacetime, one of the leading causes of death and injury for Canadian Forces members is the catastrophic failure of aging hardware
News
Get your Butchart fix, visit an art gallery, go axe throwing or even take in a movie
Investigative
Our months-long investigation into the correctional system failures now alleged to have resulted in a Metchosin man murdered in his home
News
The month’s 170 overdose fatalities alone surpassed the province’s total COVID-19 deaths
News
City had given the notoriously chaotic and run-down facility $500,000 in 2017, only to see minimal improvements followed by its premature closure
Politics
“I just can't see that in any sense of reality,” Chief Constable Del Manak told city councillor Ben Isitt
News
Despite fears they would be among the hardest hit by the pandemic, North America’s street communities emerged relatively unscathed
News
Online mobbing spurred by a racist post from a woman who was falsely alleged to work for the health agency
News
Victoria's all-important service and hospitality industries have been hit particularly hard
News
The scale of the loss can be hard to grasp. So we visualized it.
