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Your Good Health: Older couple not taking medication puzzled by blood-pressure ...

Dr. Keith Roach / .

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband is 75. I am 68. Our family doctor says that our blood pressure average is fine at 140/80 with no medicine. We thought it should be 120/70, but he says the ...

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Eric Akis: Bread sticks, with an Italian twist

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Rick Steves: No shortage of historical sights in modern Milan

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Sailing Swiftsure with a three-year-old as part of the crew

Richard Watts / Times Colonist

One crew in the upcoming Swiftsure International Yacht Race will be changing diapers between hauling down sails and handling the wheel. Gord and Michelle Galbraith will be sailing their 30-foot . . .

Sports

Island surfers have Olympics in their sights

Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist

A couple of Island surfers rode home-wave advantage to move closer across the Pacific to Japan and the 2020 Olympics. Canada’s list of Olympic hopefuls was narrowed to six, plus two alternates, . . .

Homes

House Beautiful: An artistic new angle in Fairfield

Grania Litwin / Times Colonist

Once upon a time, this Fairfield home was a small, ordinary-looking cottage. Today, it has a fairy-tale garden full of mysterious-looking sculptures. As for the house, it’s a cool, contemporary, . . .

Local

Jack Knox: Despite recycling, trash goes deep

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

We just learned that a one-man submarine exploring the deepest place on Earth, the Marianas Trench, found garbage lying on the ocean floor 11 kilometres under the surface of the Pacific. That . . .

Local

Imam counters fears with food, inviting all for meal at mosque

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

A Victoria imam hopes to combat Islamophobia by inviting people to share a meal with Muslims during Ramadan. Speaking at a media event at Victoria City Hall, Ismail Mohamed Nur said anyone is . . .

Local

Gallery: Kids' weather art

Times Colonist

Want a chance to see your kids' weather art on the Times Colonist weather page and on our website? Send an email to localnews@timescolonist.com with "weather art" in the subject line, or mail it to: Times Colonist (Weather Art)2621 Douglas St.

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Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

Travel

How to take your kids to Disneyland and sort of not hate it: A parent's survival guide

Patricia Coppard / Times Colonist

Last summer, I was at a family wedding where a guest told a story that caught my attention. It was about a trip to Disneyland his family and the groom’s had taken when the groom was about eight. . . .

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