Catch up on Victoria.
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July 30, 2025
VicPD's '3D' downtown takedown
Happy hour offerings and Island Health is making cuts
Read the edition →July 29, 2025
Transportation is evolving in the Westshore
Camping with care beats being fined
Read the edition →July 27, 2025
More beaches close due to E. Coli
Pat Bay’s Keating Cross Road flyover opens at midnight
Read the edition →July 25, 2025
Back to The Blob
A lot of not waiting around at the ER
Read the edition →July 24, 2025
$500K for Victoria mental health community
Esquimalt seeks input on its OCP. Saanich back to the drawing board for $170M operations centre.
Read the edition →July 23, 2025
Oak Bay told to build more
That's one way to burn garbage, and civil servants to take a strike vote
Read the edition →July 22, 2025
Hot bus in the city
Faster AI-assisted MRIs arrive at 2 Victoria hospitals. Court-ordered sale of Bear Mountain begins.
Read the edition →July 20, 2025
Drowning Prevention Week begins
Top stories of the week. Amalgamation vote inches closer to reality. Hotel prices soar in Tofino this summer.
Read the edition →July 18, 2025
Premier shuffles the deck
Royal Jubilee offers rare treatment for a common and deadly disease
Read the edition →July 17, 2025
Private plane hijacked at YYJ
CRD looks into $1M funding for three GV theatres. Campfire ban starts today.
Read the edition →July 16, 2025
Welcome to an Eagle and some orcas
It's a batty time of year
Read the edition →July 15, 2025
Victoria streets set to slow
Day parole revoked for Kelly Ellard. Herb Haldane wins Sooke byelection.
Read the edition →July 13, 2025
Island Health cleaning up with gown program
Retirement home seen as likely source of Bowker Creek spill
Read the edition →July 11, 2025
Draft Quadra-McKenzie Plan a go in Saanich
Police departments are busy with bad street behaviour
Read the edition →July 10, 2025
Victoria Uber drivers first in Canada to unionize
Roundhouse development approved. Grace Lore shares update on cancer treatment. 229 impaired drivers in Saanich so far this year.
Read the edition →July 9, 2025
$7K in fines for illegal taxis at Ogden Point
Essential Indigenous midwife service closes after funding pulled.
Read the edition →July 8, 2025
Feds say BC Ferries' contract with Chinese company to be reviewed
No issues with escalator involved in fatal fall. Mid-Island shipbreaking operation loses Crown lease. Dry weather on Island in June leads to increased wildfire risk.
Read the edition →July 7, 2025
Victoria pursuing rental e-bikes
Teen dies after cliff jump. Cougar targets alpacas. Missing for 23 years.
Read the edition →July 6, 2025
Pride today: Where & when
Week's top stories. Summer water safety. 6 cideries to check out. Humpback family tree.
Read the edition →July 5, 2025
Why do orcas share their food with humans?
Weekend events. A roadmap to returning stolen items to BC First Nations. Esquimalt mayor resigns from police board.
Read the edition →July 4, 2025
Island Health introduces hospital wait time tracker
Langford has a new OCP
Read the edition →July 3, 2025
Events happening this month
Victoria to spend $10M implementing community safety plan. BC Hydro impersonation scam surged in May. Stranger found in Oak Bay kitchen.
Read the edition →July 2, 2025
Order of Canada just appointed these locals
Rifflandia at the museum. Grizzlies here to stay. Fireworks photo. Roommate stabbing trial.
Read the edition →July 1, 2025
Celebrating Canada Day in Victoria
Man arrested for assault on BC Ferries. No damaged EVs on ferries says Transport Canada.
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