Category Archives: Times Colonist

The lights will soon go dark at the Zellers location in Tillicum Centre as Target Corp. is planning a $10 million overhaul of the store before opening its first Target store in Victoria next spring.

Historic Yarrows site a challenge; future uses still undetermined

The Ballet Nacional de Cuba spun, leapt and chasséd their way into Western Canada Friday night, kicking of their tour at the Royal Theatre.

Canadian opposition is growing to a U.S plan to attach satellite tags to endangered southern resident killer whales.

David Arthur Johnston has received another 60-day jail sentence for pitching a tent in Centennial Square for four days earlier this week.

The Snuneymuxw First Nation is preparing court action against the City of Nanaimo and the Harmac pulp mill over a water-sharing agreement between the city and the mill that is expected to be signed soon.

Veteran Vancouver Island politician Ron Cantelon says he will be back at work at the legislature this month after recovering from a heart attack in October.

When Bill James was told in 1976 that the dam on De Mamiel Creek would be named after him, he felt proud and honoured, said his daughter, Mary Gardner.

7.4 per cent rate in 2011 a six-year high: report

A cargo ship out of Longview, Wash. is safe and preparing to return to port after sending out a distress signal late Thursday night.

The problem of deer destroying crops on Saanich Peninsula should be considered separately from the cosmetic issue of urban deer munching on flowers, says the chairman of a Capital Regional District committee looking at deer control.

Target Corp. confirmed Thursday it will open its first store in Greater Victoria at Tillicum Centre in late spring next year.

Oceanside RCMP are looking for the driver who hit a 21-year-old woman walking into the Parksville Shoppers Drug Mart Tuesday night.

A Victoria man’s challenge to Health Canada’s medical-marijuana access regulations was delayed in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday to allow his defence lawyer to prepare for a cross-examination.

Political leaders in Metchosin have joined what they see as a growing movement to decriminalize, regulate and tax marijuana.

British Columbians think Opposition NDP Leader Adrian Dix is the best choice for premier, surpassing Christy Clark as the person most people would like to see in government’s top job, according to a new poll.

Four Saanich councillors will ask the council to strike a committee to study the future of Cedar Hill Golf Course and to hold more targeted public meetings to deal with the deficit at the municipally owned course.

Confidentiality not valid reason to avoid competitive process: De Jong

A Saskatchewan company’s window on the Pacific Ocean could breathe new life into a high-profile corner of Victoria’s Inner Harbour.

During flooding in 2006 Jeff Seabrook had to walk through knee-high water to get to his Westcoast Tire business on Sooke Road.

Value Village in downtown Victoria has blocked off a portion of its store after the building’s floor has started to sag.

West Shore RCMP investigation began in 2010

First coast-to-coast Canadian tour since 1992

Provincial health officer says devices are not dangerous

Saanich resident quits technology council for post with coalition

Waterfront property owners in B.C. probably need to bolster defences against rising ocean levels over the next century and forestry companies should be looking nervously at the absence of bug-killing cold winters.

One brutal murder, four years, thousands of tips, no suspects and dozens of shattered loved ones waiting for answers and arrests.

A former Parksville girl who went missing from her Ontario home was found on the Lower Mainland only to vanish again.

A local producer has hit the main page of Rolling Stone magazine’s website thanks to his retro-leaning remix of one of the world’s hottest songs.

Grandparents who have taken over the care of their grandchildren have a new place to turn for help and advice.

When the fresh bread arrives at the Camosun College campus food bank every Thursday morning, there’s usually a lineup of hungry, impoverished students waiting to eat it.

Lottery ticket hasn’t been claimed

Victims were on Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre ice

When a couple of sea lions swam close to Chris Darimont as he was surfing, he realized that, with his wetsuit and surf board, he looked remarkably like a marine mammal.

An RCMP bomb squad from Vancouver used a water cannon to detonate what they said was a homemade firework found near a Saanich apartment complex Saturday.

Three months into an anti-graffiti pilot project in Colwood, organizers have already handed out 12 fines, identified seven taggers and forced a couple of vandals into community service.