Driving

Bill Vance: Flying car a dream still to be realized

Bill Vance / Times Colonist

The patenting of the first car in 1886 by Germany’s Karl Benz was a revelation. It promised personal freedom of travel without schedules or the limitations of animal or human power. ...

Driving

Steve Wallace: Increased dooring fine a welcome change

Business

California moves to end sales of new gas-powered cars

Business

New SUV is next step in VW's post-scandal electric offensive

Business

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's next big bet rides on better batteries

Local

Six new electric charging stations coming to Broad Street

World

Founder of GM electric truck partner quits amid allegations

Local

Higher fine for 'dooring' a cyclist now in effect

Business

Electric vehicle sales slump as supply challenges leave dealerships with shortages

Steve Wallace: Why is Sayward at Pat Bay still on top-10 crash list?

Bill Vance: Hollywood stylist brought curves to LaSalle

Speeding and sleeping? Tesla driver faces criminal charge in Alberta

Daimler AG to pay $1.5B to settle emissions cheating probes

$10 million from province for 10 hydrogen fueling stations

Steve Wallace: Back to school in the time of COVID-19

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Delivery of prescription opioids saving lives, says Victoria pharmacy

Jack Knox: My 100-year-old mother's lesson: we can endure

Liberals' Wilkinson would scrap speculation tax, as Horgan defends housing policies

Les Leyne: Minister didn't like idea of Colwood ferry

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Horgan says Liberals left legacy of 'runaway' housing costs

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Randy and Tal Bachman keep the music going through pandemic

Blue Bridge Theatre's revamped season features concerts, debates, seasonal ...

Feds offer $50-million fund to film, TV productions struggling to get insurance

Review: Sufjan Stevens creates electronic world of inquiry

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Officials report just one active COVID case in Nova Scotia, no new case Saturday

Demonstration in Fredericton as private abortion clinic to lose its doctor

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Local

Former owners of Sooke Harbour House awarded more than $4M in damages

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

The former owners of the renowned Sooke Harbour House have been awarded more than $4 million in damages after a lengthy trial in B.C. Supreme Court this year over a share-purchase agreement. “We . . .

Food & Drink

Eric Akis: Brown rice oat pancakes a healthy, gluten-free treat

Eric Akis / Times Colonist

If you like pancakes, but want or need to make them gluten-free, brown rice flour is a good alternative to all-purpose flour. Today’s recipe yields light and tender pancakes that contain all the . . .

Local

30-year-lease available for Oak Bay Marina

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

The District of Oak Bay is seeking innovative ideas to transform the Oak Bay Marina into a “vital and happening” place as it plans for the next three decades at the Turkey Head property.A new lease . . .

Local

Victoria man's solo sailing trip around the world cut short by stroke

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

A Victoria sailor’s attempt to circumnavigate the world solo was cut short after he suffered a massive stroke at sea, sparking a major rescue mission off the coast of San Francisco. Glenn . . .

Local

It's spider season: 'We should just let them live and go about their business'

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

There’s a saying among arachnologists that you’re never more than five feet from a spider. That’s especially true in British Columbia, where there are nearly 900 documented species of spiders — . . .

Entertainment

Retired Victoria broadcaster finds long-lost tapes of Joni Mitchell recording session

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

Two long-forgotten tapes featuring the first recordings of Joni Mitchell have come out of storage and into circulation, thanks to a serendipitous turn of events involving retired Victoria . . .

Local

Newly discovered fish species named after Sooke fossil hunter

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

Steve Suntok spends most of his weekends scouring river canyons on Vancouver Island for hints of the past. A self-described fossil hunter, Suntok estimates he’s found about 1,000 to 2,000 fossils. . .

Local

Jack Knox: The Last Post for Salt Spring's Byron brothers

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Terry Byron cracked himself up remembering VE Day. His wounds healed, he was in Aldershot, England, waiting to be sent back to the fighting when word of Germany’s surrender arrived in May 1945.. . .

Local

'Oh hell, you're not a dog': Saanich woman goes nose-to-nose with a big cat — twice

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Saanich resident Lynn Wright was getting ready for bed on Wednesday night and closing her back door when she noticed what she thought was a dog stretched out on her back porch. “I said: ‘How did . . .

Local

In rare photo, killer whale uses tail to toss seal high into the air

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

A whale watching captain caught a rare sight on camera when a Bigg’s killer whale tossed a seal high in the air. Andrew Lees, who owns Five Star Whale Watching, brought his guests to the south . . .

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