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Catch up on Victoria.

Missed a morning? Find the stories, events, and useful local intel from recent editions, newest first.

February 26, 2024

Back to back to back champions

UVic's 3-peat. Where to get afternoon tea. “Wet flurries” today. Locals bear witness to war's effects

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February 25, 2024

'Tiny Town' returns to RAP

Plus Air travellers lose Lynx

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February 24, 2024

Victoria ramps up zero-waste initiatives

Plus: Sidney's new bike repair kits, UVic womens basketball make semifinals

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February 23, 2024

Provincial budget projects record $7.9B deficit

Plus, Saanich surveys for safer streets

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February 22, 2024

Rifflandia finds new home

Plus: Victoria's long walk-in wait times, orca visits Ogden Point, hitchhiking chicken

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February 21, 2024

Province puts housing first in throne speech

Plus, Tom Moore opens up another delicious eating option

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February 20, 2024

Can Island wine salvage BC's season?

Plus, Salt Spring's first schoolteacher, ferry footage on a billion computers, K-OS in town, and more

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February 19, 2024

The stories of Island families

City budget updates. Formal police complaint. Missing person search. Octopus babies.

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February 18, 2024

Breaking up the winter with Family Day

Plus, Oak Bay to redo its sewer system and Vic rental scammer gets jailtime

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February 17, 2024

No snow, but there is a winter festival this long weekend

Plus, middle school rainbow crosswalk vandalized

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February 16, 2024

Saanich going after Big Oil

Plus, VicPD drug bust busted, and some sad Vic radio news

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February 15, 2024

Langford councillor harassed at home

Plus: Random Acts of Kindness Week, Victoria condo fire, missing Central Saanich woman

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February 14, 2024

Amalgamation process set for Victoria and Saanich

Plus we share our readers' love stories, and mass firings at YYJ

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February 13, 2024

Colwood gets new art centre

Valentine's date ideas, Royals' comeback slowed, photography exhibit coming to RBCM

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February 12, 2024

Innovations from local women

Clean air, solar energy, & more. Complex project caught in limbo. More senior women losing homes. Island's Super Bowl actor.

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February 11, 2024

Suspicious fires, past & present

Where to see Super Bowl. Island named BC's most resilient. Bad ski season. Blonde raccoon. Sunday events.

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February 10, 2024

MAID may be to die for but it's still not for everyone

Vic unemployment numbers. Bonnie booers protest VFF doc. Dinner deals' final days. "Floatel" visits Island

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February 9, 2024

Island bird wins in its day in court

Plus, it's an Island health-care first, and Vic man sues wife

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February 8, 2024

Lunar New Year in Victoria

Plus: Expanded funding for View Royal treatment centre, Island musicians score Juno nods.

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February 7, 2024

First Nations language centre loses its funding

Plus, Langford to host 1st Island FanCon

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February 6, 2024

Victoria rent 3rd highest in Canada

Plus: South Island restaurants among best in Canada, Whitecaps get Island name

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February 5, 2024

Victoria's brush with Grammy glory

Winter biking bonanza. Local whisky wins awards. Pedestrian killed. Turtle in distress. New UVic faculty?

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February 4, 2024

Is it spring already?

Record warmth & blossoms blooming. The race to build enough schools. Car fetches record price.

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February 3, 2024

A gap in the bike lane network

BC releases safer supply report. Ferry route changes. Oil leak at Swan Lake. Local kid gets NHL VIP treatment

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