Category Archives: Times Colonist

It was 1968 and Victoria councillor Robert Baird was bemoaning the fact that he couldn’t have the hippies hanging around Centennial Square publicly whipped.

A 66-year-old man who allegedly sexually assaulted a child in Victoria more than 25 years ago has been arrested in Quebec.

Jess Tremaine packed up a Peterbilt big rig almost six years ago and drove more than 3,000 kilometres from Alaska to Vancouver Island.

Saanich residents seem keen on recycling kitchen scraps.

The B.C. government denied concerns that it is trying to assert more control over traffic-ticket appeals, saying overthephone disputes would be handled by an independent tribunal.

Saanich’s police chief and a Victoria police homicide detective have been awarded the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, the country’s highest such honour.

A simple act of kindness has earned the Royal Roadrunners a large, unexpected donation.

About 60 people carrying signs and placards decrying B.C. Hydro’s smart-meter program staged a peaceful demonstration Wednesday outside the offices of Dr. Perry Kendall, the provincial medical health officer.

An unconfirmed report indicates a lone wolf is roaming the Saanich Peninsula around Tanner Ridge and Elk Lake.

Three firms have been short-listed to evaluate the city’s design for the new Johnson Street Bridge and submit proposals to build it.

A Duncan man who pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine in 2006 and 2008 has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Most of the people who line up at 3: 30 a.m. on Saturday to be the first inside the annual Times Colonist Book Sale head straight for “the cage.”

So, is this the part of Law and Order where the bad guy realizes that, whoops, he might have squeezed his victim’s throat a little too tightly, so tries to bring her back with mouth to-mouth?

Traffic is too heavy to reduce Shelbourne Street between North Dairy and Feltham roads to two lanes to ease the way for cyclists and pedestrians, says a consultant working for Saanich. But that doesn’t mean improvements such as bike lanes … Continue reading →

A man is in custody after a failed attempt to swim away from police.

And this year, more than 2,000 newborns will receive a book and a CD from the Greater Victoria Public Library’s Books for Babies program.

HMCS Oriole is back where it belongs, afloat on the ocean after five months in dry dock.

B.C.’s newest holiday, Family Day, is going ahead, but the date remains up for debate, the government said Tuesday.

Port Renfrew’s economic recovery is being “crippled” by artificial boundaries that exclude the rural community from an HST rebate program, says Capital Regional District director Mike Hicks.

A flood of last-minute legislation by the B.C. Liberal government is threatening to bottleneck the legislature, but the premier is ruling out extra workdays for provincial politicians.

B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake has promised to investigate concerns about trucking contaminated soil into the Cowichan Valley Regional District.

RCMP clandestine drug lab experts descended on a Gordon Head home Tuesday to examine the chemicals police believe represent the early makings of a chemical drug lab.

Canada’s leading environmental organizations will black out their websites for one day next month to protest what they consider attacks by the federal government – and they are asking businesses, social justice groups and individuals to join them.

The Wickaninnish Sand Dunes in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve are likely to remain closed for much of the summer while the Department of National Defence sweeps the area looking for unexploded munitions.

Vancouver Island Health Authority president Howard Waldner did not abuse his position when he contacted a cabinet minister and both a university dean and a provost about his son’s application to medical school, according to a government ordered report.

Esquimalt property owners won’t face a municipal tax increase this year.

The Cowichan Valley school board appears poised to pass a deficit budget and risk being fired by the B.C. government.

David Ross Goldberg was a broken man with mixed-up, disordered and despondent thoughts. He’d lost his job and what he thought was the love of his life, his defence lawyer told his sentencing hearing in B.C.

Quadra Island residents are cheering a government move that could seal a deal to purchase key tracts of land linking a pair of marine provincial parks.

Saanich police, tactical team members and a hazardous materials team were called in to deal with a suspected chemical drug lab and a man who barricaded himself inside the home on a quiet Gordon Head Street Monday afternoon.

Almost no information on how rules will be enforced

‘He was the most polite guy in the world. He was obviously well brought up and very smart’

Kibby Evans and Daman Milsom will have someone special to inspire them when they set out on a cross-Canada cycling trip later this month.

Polluter pay is the basis of oil-spill response in Canada and taxpayers should not end up on the hook, according to the federal government.

The biggest toys in B.C.’s oil-spill cleanup toybox are stashed on Vancouver Island.

I put my back out the other day. It refused to come back in.