Driving

Steve Wallace: How long can you drive in bus-bike lanes?

Steve Wallace / Times Colonist

Here are more questions and comments from readers: Can you drive in the bus-bike dedicated traffic lane? Several people have asked for clarification. Yes, you can travel in these ...

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Local

Times Colonist Christmas Fund: In good times and bad, you can make a difference

Dave Obee / Times Colonist

At a time when the local economy is booming and employers cannot fill their vacant jobs, it might be hard to believe that anyone on Vancouver Island needs a helping hand. But ask a single mother . . .

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Explore: Whisky Fest, Dine Around, Dream Wedding Show

Times Colonist

Those lucky enough to have tickets for the Victoria Whisky Festival will taste peat, earth, heath, heather, moor, fen, cedar and silage at the Hotel Grand Pacific. The festival, which opens today. . .

Business

Photo gallery: Push! How to load a helicopter into a giant Russian cargo plane

Times Colonist

A 20,000-pound helicopter, owned by VIH Aviation Group of Victoria, is loaded at the rear of a huge Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane at Victoria International Airport on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. The 46.6-metre-long cargo plane was hired by the government of Chile to deliver the Kamov Ka-32A11BC helicopter to Santiago, where it will be used to fight wildfires. The chopper will be fitted with long lines attached to buckets, allowing it to scoop up 5,000 litres of water at a time.

Islander

Mossome Grove: 'One of the most beautiful' forests on Earth (PHOTOS)

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

A six-hectare parcel of old-growth forest in the San Juan River Valley, near Port Renfrew, has been dubbed Mossome Grove (a combination of “mossy” and “awesome”) by the conservationists who . . .

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Sweet Victoria: Kazakhstan team says thanks with video tribute

Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist

From Astana to Victoria, with love. The Kazakhstan junior hockey team has posted a YouTube tribute to the B.C. capital, which adopted the squad as underdog darlings of the IIHF 2019 world junior . . .

Local

Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

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