Catch up on Victoria.
Missed a morning? Find the stories, events, and useful local intel from recent editions, newest first.
October 23, 2024
UVic takes aim at coffee cups
Plus, Sonia Furstenau remains Green and Jordan Peterson is incoming
Read the edition →October 22, 2024
The Great Esquimalt Baker
What's going on with BC's election count? Suspicious man arrested at Central Middle School yesterday. Search continues for driver in Bamfield road washout.
Read the edition →October 21, 2024
Local recount can decide BC election
Taxi driver killed in downtown crash. Food under $10. New BC area code. Storm closes Hwy 14.
Read the edition →October 20, 2024
🗳 Oct 20 - And the election winner is...
still not settled. But one local result could decide BC's fate. Plus: Wild weather, & local sports teams' last stands.
Read the edition →October 19, 2024
It's voting day in BC
Atmospheric river set to drench the Island. New rental project in Turner Building moves forward with Vic council.
Read the edition →October 18, 2024
One last pre-election primer for your perusal
Plus, could we get a floating museum in the Inner Harbour?
Read the edition →October 17, 2024
A Million Acts of Love
More promises from CRD candidates as election approaches. Thousands of BC species at risk.
Read the edition →October 16, 2024
Promises made and to be voted on
Plus Kudos for UVic, named No. 2 in Canada
Read the edition →October 15, 2024
Massage assaults trial begins
8 cafes to try this fall. Antarctic research. Advance voting continues. Whale up close. Movies on the Island.
Read the edition →October 14, 2024
Your best aurora photos
Trail season ends. Schools grow fastest in BC. Election projections for Island ridings. Family stories. Runners' successes.
Read the edition →October 13, 2024
The world's best wildlife photo
was taken on the Island. Local football's big win. Campaign-office bomb threat. Dog survives deadly crash.
Read the edition →October 12, 2024
Local schools' student surge
Vic barber in US knife-throwing tourney. Great white shark washes up. See the aurora borealis. Busy long weekend ferries.
Read the edition →October 11, 2024
Lots of change for local ridings
Plus federal pharmacare bill big win for AccessBC
Read the edition →October 10, 2024
Underwater robot making maiden voyage near Island
Conservatives' leader Rustad changes overdose story
Read the edition →October 9, 2024
Rustad calls Victoria's downtown situation 'not normal'
Plus: Geez, didn't this Sidney marsh seem a bit bigger before?
Read the edition →October 8, 2024
Victoria dragon boaters are world champions
Fall food events this October, landslide victory for Langford-based national rugby team.
Read the edition →October 7, 2024
4 locals get Order of Canada
5 Public Market restaurants. A local in the "Super Bowl of sailing." Fire prevention week. Election registration day. Taxi leaves behind hospital patient
Read the edition →October 6, 2024
How rabbits are helping to fight cancer
10 local Thanksgiving meals. 2 developments in receivership. Elvis-loving senior makes 100+ sculptures.
Read the edition →October 5, 2024
Victoria-Beacon Hill candidates face off
Recycling construction waste. New slide for Commonwealth Pool.
Read the edition →October 4, 2024
Another entertainment venue bites the dust
And more disappointing news from the killer whale front
Read the edition →October 3, 2024
Chinatown Museum is here to stay
Hotel near YYJ on its way, a peculiar find on an Elk Lake trail.
Read the edition →October 2, 2024
First Nations' Truth and Reconciliation Day snub
Plus, the legislature may need up to $900M in repairs
Read the edition →October 1, 2024
"We wrap our relatives in love"
BC rejects local exemptions on housing density. Box of kittens found at Thetis Lake.
Read the edition →September 30, 2024
From a classroom to a stadium
Local Sept 30 events expand. Vic ocean companies win US awards. School funding crunch.
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