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Intriguing displays from the Saanich Archives have been showing up at the Cedar Hill Rec Centre and at the Saanich Municipal Hall. I decided to track them to the source.

Doctors call it “transurethral resection of the prostate,” or TURP for short.

When JoAnn Outerbridge retired to Saanich, she spent her final years as a real estate “flipper” in service to birds, plants and fellow seekers of nature. Outerbridge died on Feb. 2 in Victoria Hospice after a short illness with colon cancer.

Part Hobbit, part dwarf and with a magical inspiration that is all Gandalf, Joe Thompson has constructed a refuge for the best of J.R.R. Tolkien’s peoples and those who love them.

From timely talks about sports concussions and the effects of e-cigarettes to exploring enormous trees and microscopic biomedical devices, the third annual IdeaFest at the University of Victoria promises to unveil a range of cutting-edge research to

This is an edited version of a powerful, passionate introduction given by author Wade Davis at the recent British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction event in Vancouver.

In this excerpt from Inside Chinatown: Ancient Culture in a New World, Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong write about the history of Victoria’s Chinese Public School and take us inside the building that stands at 636 Fisgard St.

Award-winning journalist and golf historian Arv Olson served for 38 years as a sportswriter at the Vancouver Sun newspaper, where he was known as the “voice of golf.

Today’s Super Bowl has been 38 years in the making for the Island branch of Seahawks Nation.

CAMPBELL RIVER —A historic landmark on Campbell River’s waterfront that has been a target for graffiti is now being turned into a social media canvas. As part of the Campbell River Arts Council’s Cultural Mapping Project, artist J.