Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

With an eye on sustaining the Salt Spring Island community through the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic chaos, farms and businesses on the island have formed the Business and Farm Response and Recovery Task Force.

The Nanaimo Foundation and the Tom Harris Community Foundation have contributed $150,000 to launch the Community Response Fund for emergency relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two senior citizens in hospital on Vancouver Island have died of COVID-19, the Island’s first deaths related to the global pandemic. B.C. provincial health officer Dr.

Butchart Gardens is temporarily closed because of the coronavirus outbreak. Due to an error by the Times Colonist, an advertisement indicating that Butchart Gardens was open appeared on the front page of the Thursday Times Colonist.

Last week, I went to the local pharmacy to refill my Symbicort prescription — it’s an inhaler for asthma. When I arrived, I was told none were available. Luckily, I found a drugstore that had just one left, and hurried over to get it.

A Victoria family lawyer is urging parents who share custody of their children to show compassion and understanding during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to continue splitting their court-ordered parenting duties unless it’s not safe to do so.

One by one the faces pop up on the computer screen, stacked on top of each other in rows like the start of the old Brady Bunch TV show.

The City of Langford has a good idea that is contributing to the fight against COVID-19. But it looks like they’re pushing it too far.

The Greater Victoria real estate market felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, according to sales figures released Wednesday, but it’s bracing for much worse this month and beyond.

As the video begins, all you see is Gordon Campbell — no, not THAT Gordon Campbell — standing in his Sidney home with an upright bass.