Entertainment

Victoria singer-songwriter’s song featured on American Idol

Mike Devlin / Times Colonist

A performer with ties to Victoria had his music featured on American Idol on Monday night, the second time in less than two weeks an artist from the area has had his music showcased ...

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Jerry Lee Lewis cancels shows, is recovering from stroke

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Michael Buble croons through musical career on multi-network special

Piaf! The Show features fast-rising French singer

'Captain Marvel' soars even higher with stellar second weekend

Victoria Jazz Festival announces first round of headliners

7 Stories at UVic grabs viewers on many levels

Stage Left: Sound of the Beast an eye-opener at Belfry's Spark Festival

Books on slavery, prison system win literary prizes

Goodbye console? Google launches game-streaming platform

Unusual 'Bachelor' finale pays off for ABC in ratings race

After 'Gotham,' Ben McKenzie goes from hero to movie bad guy

MLB managers want limits, not bans, on clubhouse video games

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Site of Canada's last volcano eruption is in an area of B.C. splendour

Explore Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region as part of the world’s largest outdoor ...

Air Canada grounds its Boeing Max 8s until at least July 1 to provide certainty

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Bill Vance: Mercury ‘a poor man’s Lincoln’

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Trip to doctor for 'cold' led to discovery of cancer in lung

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Local

An ocean of plastic changes everything — even what we eat

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

Walk along any beach on B.C.’s coast and you will likely spot bits of plastic. Go out into the middle of the Gulf of Alaska in the middle of winter and it’s there, too. “Even here on the . . .

Local

Woman sexually assaulted by man with a knife in Gordon Head area

Cindy E. Harnett ,  Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

Neighbours are concerned after a report of a sexual assault with a weapon early Sunday at a normally quiet townhouse complex in Gordon Head. Saanich police said the attack happened about 2 a.m. . . .

Local

Second heart transplant for former soccer star Simon Keith

Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist

Victoria-raised former soccer star Simon Keith, who made world headlines as the first player to play pro soccer after a heart transplant, received a second heart transplant Sunday and a kidney . . .

National

Family searches for man who went missing while on healing journey near Tofino

Amy Smart / The Canadian Press

The evidence of Travis Damon Thomas's survival is scarce but his uncle says it's scattered around a remote island off the coast of Vancouver Island: a circle of footprints, the remains of a sea . . .

Local

This isn’t what voters wanted, councillor says of Victoria’s vision

Bill Cleverley / Times Colonist

From pioneering zero-waste initiatives to replacing non-native flowers with native plantings, Victoria’s strategic plan is full of a lot of expensive actions that residents never said they wanted, . . .

Local

Hundreds of tiny tremors recorded between Victoria and Seattle

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

It’s not the type of tweet you want to read just before bedtime. “Several hundred tiny tremors (not felt) between Victoria and Seattle in the past 24 hours,” Earthquake guy posted Tuesday night. . . .

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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