Victoria

The Royal BC Museum is offering a digital field trip in May for Asian Heritage Month. (Black Press Media file photo)

B.C. arachnophobes surrounded by 900 species of creepy crawly spiders

A Royal B.C. Museum project has catalogued more then 900 distinct types of spiders found in B.C.

  • Sep 28, 2023

 

The Vancouver Canucks held an intrasquad scrimmage at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre during day three of their Victoria training camp on Sept. 23. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

Victoria hockey fans delighted as training camp brings Canucks up close

Greater Victoria NHLer takes the ice in front of Vancouver Island fans

 

A rally and counter-protest about school policies on gender identity were held outside the B.C. legislature on Wednesday (Sept. 20). (Brendan Mayer/News Staff)

‘Unsafe’: Police ask protesters on SOGI issue to vacate B.C. legislature

Rallies and counter-protests took place at the B.C. legislature and across Canada Wednesday

 

A member of the Deeley Research Centre’s immunotherapy lab works on developing CAR-T cells on Aug. 23. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

B.C. centre providing new hope for patients with hard-to-fight cancers

The Deeley Research Centre is celebrating 20 years of advancing new treatments

A member of the Deeley Research Centre’s immunotherapy lab works on developing CAR-T cells on Aug. 23. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Gonzales Beach in Victoria. (Black Press Media file photo)

Coroner confirms human remains found in shoe on Victoria beach

Investigation continues into the July discovery

Gonzales Beach in Victoria. (Black Press Media file photo)
Harbour Nolan, 19, busks on the Inner Harbour Causeway, the location after which he was named. (Natasha Baldin/News Staff)

Cost of living, regulation feed decline of downtown buskers in B.C. capital

Buskers detail change in conditions that are silencing street corner song

Harbour Nolan, 19, busks on the Inner Harbour Causeway, the location after which he was named. (Natasha Baldin/News Staff)
Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon, seen in this 2021 photo, will be tabling legislation in the fall that will address housing being converted into short-term rentals and could require platforms to be more transparent with local governments. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

B.C. housing minister tight-lipped on looming short-term rental regulations

Ravi Kahlon has concerns with the industry as he says it’s taking up too much housing stock

Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon, seen in this 2021 photo, will be tabling legislation in the fall that will address housing being converted into short-term rentals and could require platforms to be more transparent with local governments. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Gonzales Beach in Victoria. (Black Press Media file photo)

Shoe with human remains found on Victoria beach

B.C. Coroners Services in early stages of investigation

Gonzales Beach in Victoria. (Black Press Media file photo)
The afternoon sun shines on a Victoria building on July 19. Statistics Canada data shows British Columbians have less access to air conditioning than any other region. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

With hot days ahead, B.C. has the lowest air conditioning access in Canada

Statistics Canada’s first major study into AC use looks to identify those vulnerable to extreme heat

The afternoon sun shines on a Victoria building on July 19. Statistics Canada data shows British Columbians have less access to air conditioning than any other region. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Victoria has been ranked the third most expensive place to live in Canada. Pictured is Victoria’s Inner Harbour. (Black Press Media file photo)

B.C. city ranked as Canada’s third most expensive: study

B.C. is the least affordable province, says study into income and expenses

Victoria has been ranked the third most expensive place to live in Canada. Pictured is Victoria’s Inner Harbour. (Black Press Media file photo)
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A Victoria nurse has been disciplined. (iStock photo)

B.C. nurse won’t be fired for snooping into patient records, leaking info

Nurse was also “not honest” with bosses over actions

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A Victoria nurse has been disciplined. (iStock photo)
This rental in Saanich is 300 square feet, but is going for the cost of a full one-bedroom apartment. (Screenshot/Craigslist)

‘Glorified shed’ renting at the full one-bedroom rate irks B.C. applicant

Renters looking for some sanity as Victoria market lands on dubious list

This rental in Saanich is 300 square feet, but is going for the cost of a full one-bedroom apartment. (Screenshot/Craigslist)
Cody (C.J.) Poole works on the solar-powered cart that’s been his home for months. He and others are hoping to build versions of the carts for their homeless friends living with physical disabilities. The cart and Poole’s other belongings were impounded by bylaw on June 23. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

Victoria homeless entrepreneur’s efforts stifled as city confiscates his tools

Impounding items breaks recently built trust between unhoused and bylaw, organizer says

Cody (C.J.) Poole works on the solar-powered cart that’s been his home for months. He and others are hoping to build versions of the carts for their homeless friends living with physical disabilities. The cart and Poole’s other belongings were impounded by bylaw on June 23. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Two B.C. residents claimed that their neighbours were “unreasonably sensitive” to the bass in their new sound system. (Pexels photo)

B.C. neighbours ‘unreasonably sensitive’ to bass, couple says in lawsuit

CRT ruling orders couple to pay out thousands of dollars

Two B.C. residents claimed that their neighbours were “unreasonably sensitive” to the bass in their new sound system. (Pexels photo)
Victoria is asking the province to do more on boosting biodiversity and protections for renters. (Black Press Media file photo)

Victoria asks B.C. to clamp down on no-fault evictions, rent increases

Capital UBCM resolution also hopes hopes province will boost biodiversity

Victoria is asking the province to do more on boosting biodiversity and protections for renters. (Black Press Media file photo)
Lahsen Rezrazi and Debbie Ramsay will have an especially memorable upcoming wedding anniversary, after winning a whopping $35-million from the June 6, 2023 Lotto Max draw. (BCLC photo)
Lahsen Rezrazi and Debbie Ramsay will have an especially memorable upcoming wedding anniversary, after winning a whopping $35-million from the June 6, 2023 Lotto Max draw. (BCLC photo)
Balraj Partridge after completing the Drop Zone at last years Easter Seals BC/Yukon’s annual Drop Zone fundraiser. (Jennifer Vasarhely/Contributed to Black Press Media)

Young B.C. man in wheelchair rappels down building to raise money for Easter Seals

Balraj Partridge suffers from spina bifida, a birth defect in an area of the spinal column

Balraj Partridge after completing the Drop Zone at last years Easter Seals BC/Yukon’s annual Drop Zone fundraiser. (Jennifer Vasarhely/Contributed to Black Press Media)
Nash Hellwig, 22, fell to the floor from the top bunk of his hostel bed in Antigua, Guatemala, and sustained excessive bleeding in his liver. (Hellwig family photo)

Vancouver Island father dies after falling from bunkbed in Guatemala

Man leaves behind a two-year-old daughter

  • Jun 15, 2023
Nash Hellwig, 22, fell to the floor from the top bunk of his hostel bed in Antigua, Guatemala, and sustained excessive bleeding in his liver. (Hellwig family photo)
Members of the Victoria and Saanich police departments accessed the personal information of a local critic while using a police database without the authority to do so. Pictured are Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie (left) and Victoria police Chief Del Manak. (Black Press Media file photo)

2 B.C. police forces improperly surveyed accountability critic

B.C.’s privacy watchdog found police ran man’s name through database without authority

Members of the Victoria and Saanich police departments accessed the personal information of a local critic while using a police database without the authority to do so. Pictured are Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie (left) and Victoria police Chief Del Manak. (Black Press Media file photo)
A machinery operator works on a gravel road off the side of Bear Mountain Parkway in Langford on May 29. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Lack of B.C. affordable housing chasing away the people who could build it

B.C. builders say tradespeople shortage made worse by the number of workers leaving the province

A machinery operator works on a gravel road off the side of Bear Mountain Parkway in Langford on May 29. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)