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Amalgamation Yes will make a push in the new year to try to convince local councils to include a question on amalgamation on their November ballots.

When Victoria’s Tony Harrington, 11, watched rocker Chris Cornell wheel the bicycle Tony had spent 100 hours building on stage this fall, he thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Victoria musician Kenn Coutu faces off against artists across the country this week as a finalist in the competition for Canada’s next great hockey song.

A cooking turkey left unattended in an oven caused a trailer fire in View Royal on Christmas Day. View Royal firefighters were called to the Fort Victoria RV Park at 3:40 p.m. after neighbours spotted smoke coming from the trailer.

An altercation in Victoria police cells left a prisoner with a broken rib, leading the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner to look into whether jail staff used excessive force. John Benson, 44, was arrested Dec.

On the 12-year anniversary of Vinnie Gill’s first cardiac surgery, his family returned to Royal Jubilee Hospital to give back to the care facility where their late son spent so much time.

A Central Saanich composting facility, accused of being stinky, has been charged by the Capital Regional District under a public nuisance bylaw and sued by a group of nearby residents.

At 22 years old, Sheila Montesclaros said goodbye to her infant son and family in the Philippines and went in search of work and a better life for all of them. “It was really hard, but I had to,” Montesclaros said. “Life is too difficult there.

A Camosun College who survived a massive blood clot in her lungs thanks to the work of a medical team at Victoria General Hospital has had a minor setback.

The painting reproduced here, Winter Walk, shows Robert Bateman’s wife, Birgit Freybe Bateman, taking one of the couple’s daily nature strolls. The celebrated Saltspring Island artist and Officer of the Order of Canada is big on hiking.