Islander

Grafton Tyler Brown became the first professional artist in the province when he reinvented himself in his move to British Columbia in 1882.

Nanaimo journalist and historian Jan Peterson lived in Port Alberni from 1972 to 1996, where she worked as a reporter for the Alberni Valley Times.

A dozen years ago, cougar numbers on Vancouver Island had plummeted to 400 or fewer, barely half the total from the mid-1990s.

The artists of the Island Illustrators Society have created their 2014/2015 “eXplore Victoria” Travelling Illustrated Alphabet. The alphabet will go on tour to branches of the Greater Victoria Public Library starting this month.

It’s an annual rite of passage, a time when the nearly naked and somewhat afraid plunge together into bone-chilling waters, however briefly, in the spirit of cleansing the past and making a compact with their new year’s resolutions.

We asked Adrian Lam, Darren Stone and Bruce Stotesbury to pick their three favourite photos from the past year. We think you'll enjoy their selections

Young adults with developmental disabilities will have an opportunity to maximize their potential thanks to a new program from the Garth Homer Society funded by the Victoria Foundation.

By the time you read this, another Black Friday will be in the books and Cyber Monday will be just around corner. Recent imports from our friends to the south, the mega-shopping days that follow U.S.

Children at the elementary school level will now have the opportunity to learn about healthy and respectful relationship skill-building, thanks to Peace Kids, a new pilot program offered by SWOVA (Saltspring Women Opposed to Violence and Abuse).

Another in our occasional series of historical images and postcards from Greater Victoria and around Vancouver Island