Local News

SALTSPRING ISLAND — Don’t need to spend much time polling people in Ganges to identify the big election issue here: ferry fares. Or, at least, the perception that fares are too high, keeping visitors away.

Demolishing the old St. Andrews School building probably is a better option than saving “a fragment” of the 30-year-old building as part of a redevelopment, says Victoria Coun. Pam Madoff.

Times Colonist readers have helped solve the mystery surrounding a boy who wrote a melancholy postcard to Santa almost 100 years ago. Charlie Wilson was just a boy in 1920, when he penned the postcard from Lethbridge, Alta. He told St.

Jonathan Walker, 11, is not the kind of kid who goes halfway on a new experience like the Times Colonist Book Sale.

In the ongoing skirmishes between salmon farmers and environmental groups, fish farmers appear to have a powerful ally in the provincial government, says Wilderness Committee campaigner Torrance Coste.

More than 150 Hells Angels and other outlaw motorcycle gang members blocked the Trans-Canada Highway Saturday during their annual ride to Victoria from Nanaimo.

Saanich police responding to a report of an early-morning burglary Friday wound up uncovering a stash of bicycles and athletic equipment worth an estimated $40,000. Police were alerted about 3:30 a.m.

The federal government is resuscitating a plan to replace its aging fleet of six CC-115 Buffalo aircraft stationed at 19 Wing Comox. The fixed-wing aircraft have served as workhorses of the search-and-rescue system since they were purchased in 1967.

BAMFIELD — The Huu-ay-aht First Nation has purchased the Tides & Trails Market and Café in Bamfield, where the summer tourist seasons always brings a boost for business.

Royal Roads University plans to add new programs and hire 30 more staff this year, even as other post-secondary schools struggle to eliminate deficits by cutting employees and reducing services.