Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

The City of Victoria has abandoned plans to use Beacon Hill Park as a temporary tenting site for people without homes during the COVID-19 outbreak. Mayor Lisa Helps said on Thursday that the city and B.C.

People looking to find solace by walking among the spring bulbs and flowering trees and shrubs at Butchart Gardens will have to wait at least a fortnight to do so as the attraction temporarily closed its gates to the public early Thursday.

Sylvia Olsen, author, historian and consultant on First Nations housing, is in quarantine in her North Saanich home with her husband, who has tested positive for novel coronavirus.

The people at Tiny have come up with another couple of big ideas to help Victoria though the pandemic.

Sales of alcohol might be way up, but B.C. is closing its government-run liquor stores on Sundays. Ironically, surging sales — they’re up 40 per cent this month — contributed to the decision, which takes effect this weekend.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has announced 66 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in B.C., bringing the total to 725.

While B.C. continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, officials have ordered a number of non-essential businesses to close if they cannot ensure safe physical distance.

Supermarkets are being swamped with delivery requests, leaving shoppers — some of them in vulnerable health — forced to pick up supplies in person or scramble to find someone to go out on their behalf.

Money is still coming into the Rapid Relief Fund — thanks again — and it is going out as well. As promised. The fund was established to give immediate need to those affected by COVID-19. We’ve passed $1.

A commentary by the senior director of the Mustard Seed Street Church. COVID-19 has brutally affected Greater Victoria’s low-income families, members of our street communities and seniors.