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The oldest residential neighbourhood in Victoria just welcomed its newest additions with the planting of three community apple trees near the Ernest Todd Playground in James Bay on Wednesday.

2016 numbers revert to average levels: study

HONOLULU — The population of Hawaiian monk seals — one of the world’s most critically endangered marine mammals — has been increasing three per cent a year for the past three years, U.S. wildlife officials say.

Stalled for six years and subject to rumour and speculation ever since, Dockside Green got new life and a sense of certainty on Thursday night when Victoria city council voted to approve rezoning for the 15-acre site.

The Guangzhou Museum of Art, in a city of 13 million people in the south of China, recently hosted a month-long exhibition for Stephen Lowe (1938-1975).

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Jan. 25, 1941. What holds the empire together? I am sure other people are wondering, too, about this.

If you’re the type of person who thinks of hairstyling when you hear the world curling, attending the 2017 Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships can be like a visit to another planet.

The voice and vision of indigenous artists in cinema will shine brighter at the Victoria Film Festival, thanks to funding for an indigenous program with a guest curator. At the festival, which runs Feb.

Just like reading, writing and arithmetic, the development of physical literacy should be a fundamental skill for all children.

With a proclamation by Queen Victoria on May 24, 1867, the confederation of Canada was born.