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Heat-exchange expert Doug Lockhart has two problems with geothermal heating systems: neighbours can’t see them and no moving parts attract the casual onlooker.

When a cyclone devastated a country halfway around the world two weeks ago, a global emergency-relief organization headquartered in Victoria sprang into action.

Community policing is serious business, but there’s nothing like a little levity to make a discussion of law enforcement as entertaining as it is instructive.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 16, 1940. A big, throaty voice was calling on the radio for leaders.

Inte att hända. That’s Swedish for not gonna happen. As in: There are no plans, possibilities or even a weenie little hope that Ikea will open so much as a pickup counter in Victoria, never mind one of its behemoth home-furnishing stores.

The column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 9, 1940. No matter how tangled any thread is, if we look at a small enough part of it, it seems to lie straight. So it is in life.

Picking the 10 Best Heritage Houses in our region was a daunting task.

Historical images from Greater Victoria and Vancouver Island

What’s happening with the Turner building, that unusual curved edifice near Royal Jubilee Hospital that once housed Ian’s Coffee Stop? Will anything be built on the empty lot where the Mayfair bowling lanes once stood? Greater Victoria has many empty

Historical images from Greater Victoria and Vancouver Island