Islander

Everybody is a winner at the upcoming Fort Street Cycle Beginner Tri for MS, a non-competitive and fun version of a triathlon. This is the second year of the event, which takes place next Sunday.

Victoria was deeply embroiled in one of the most controversial development debates in its history when Steve Barber arrived from Winnipeg to take on the job as the city’s first full-time heritage planner just over 27 years ago.

Douglas Street, c. 1925 — Bill Bouchard Every year my grandmother, Rosabel Annie Latham, took the ferry from her home in Vancouver for a week in Victoria because it reminded her of her old home in England.

With the sun playing tag with the clouds and the intoxicating fragrance of cherry blossoms on the harbour, the setting seemed tailor-made for last Tuesday’s Tourism Turbo Drive event.

We asked for some of your stories about running in past Times Colonist 10K races. Here's what you told us

Penticton author and licence-plate collector Chris Garrish spent 12 years compiling Tales from the Back Bumper: A Century of B.C. Licence Plates, an account of B.C. history told from the perspective of the province’s licence plates.

In recent weeks, we asked readers to send in old postcards and photos with images of Greater Victoria and the Island from years past — and you delivered, in spades. We received so many the backlog may continue for several weeks, so this week we offer an expanded “Postcards” feature. Enjoy!

People looking for something fun to do Easter weekend should check out the Easter Seals Splash of Colour Family Fun Run on Saturday. On the surface, it is a non-timed five-kilometre walk or run through the trails at Royal Roads University.

There has been a paradigm shift in Victoria’s live-music community of late, the beneficiaries of which are the highly skilled musicians who entertain audiences — every night — in pubs and clubs in this city.

Apologies to the Poltergeist II team for using their catchphrase, but “They’re baaaack!” We’re not referring to evil spirits invading suburbia, but the local reincarnation of PwC, a.k.a.