Local News

The Children of the Damned bird is back. Long-time readers might recall him from the spring of 2008, when he announced his presence one morning with a slow, rhythmic rapping on a downstairs window. Tap, tap, tap.

Randy Bouchard has fond boyhood memories of digging up sea worms to use for bait from Heron Bay, then using them to catch lots of fish off the breakwater. Many Victoria residents didn’t know the small bay near Fisherman’s Wharf even had a name.

On election day, Times Colonist readers can follow the results and reactions as they unfold on our website.

It won’t have textbooks or classrooms, but a new independent high school will open this fall on Fort Street — with a daily start time of 9:45 a.m. because teens need their sleep.

Provincial court judges have called the lack of a correctional or remand facility for women on Vancouver Island shameful and profoundly unfair.

Next week Victorians can expect to see 100 new flags flying on lawns throughout the city, planted there by volunteers of the Rotary Club of Oak Bay. The 1-by-1.5-metre flags on 2.4-metre poles are a new fundraiser for the local service club.

The Saanich school district continues to win support for its made-in-B.C. computer system that tracks student registrations, attendance, grades and other records.

It’s going to be an especially happy Mother’s Day for Saanich resident Surjit Bhandal and the two nephews she raised since birth.

The Capital Regional District has taken a step closer to locating a sewage treatment plant at Esquimalt’s McLoughlin Point.

Former Victoria diving coach Trevor Palmatier has been released on $5,000 bail with strict conditions that will constrain his coaching.