Victoria International Airport: 3 million passengers by 2030

Bus lanes are proving a painful task, but the idea is build them and riders will follow

Clipper introduces larger, faster vessel to Victoria-Seattle route

Transportation Insight: Integrated mobility is the long-term solution to parking woes

Processing plant to turn surplus vegetables into healthy profits

Jackpot! Start your little farm-to-table operation.

A race track reborn: In North Saanich, food will sprout where horses once ran

Agriculture insight: The Good Food Movement

Warm welcome: Greater Victoria ready to embrace another banner year in tourism

Capital City Station proving a perfect place to connect people with buses

Canada’s busiest cruise-ship port key to region’s healthy tourism sector

Paul Nursey: A new global destination

Cannabis conundrum: Field of dreams or destruction of prime agricultural land?

Indigenous innovation: Songhees open the way for entrepreneurs in new centre

Home advantage: The capital finally gets a premier, but will there be benefits for the region?

Jack Knox: Seven years later . . . a new Johnson Street Bridge!

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Michael D. Reid: Top 10 Christmas movies

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Graham Lee: WHL saviour, concert king, entrepreneur

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Working the dry dock: A day at Seaspan Victoria Shipyards

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A closeup look at nine of the region’s manufacturers

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Local

Photo gallery: Butchart Gardens shine bright for Christmas

Times Colonist

A long tradition continues this year at Butchart Gardens with the 32nd annual Magic of Christmas lights display, featuring hundreds of thousands of lights that have taken nine weeks to install. The only area of the complex not lit is the Japanese Garden. A key component of the attraction is the 12 Days of Christmas theme, which has seen each of the days mentioned in the song added to the display in successive years.

Local

Photo gallery: 37th annual Santa's Light Parade

Times Colonist

Photos from the Island Farms Santa's Light Parade in downtown Victoria on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2018.

Islander

Photo gallery: 100 years after the guns fell silent

Times Colonist

After four years of unimaginable carnage, the First World War finally came to an end, 100 years ago Sunday. In Victoria, as in cities and towns around the world, people poured into the streets to celebrate the armistice that took effect at 11 a.m.

Local

Photo gallery: No Stone Left Alone at God's Acre Veterans Cemetery

Times Colonist

About 120 Grade 6 and 7 students from Rockheights Middle School, accompanied by Canadian Armed Forces members from CFB Esquimalt, placed about 2,000 poppies on veterans' gravesites at God's Acre Veterans Cemetery in Esquimalt on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. It was part of the No Stone Left Alone program, an initiative that involves grade-school students in honouring the sacrifices that Canadian military men and women have made.

Local

Halloween photo gallery: Pumpkins, spooks and rides, oh my!

Times Colonist

We'd love to see your Halloween photos — decorations, costumes, jack-o'-lanterns and more! Send your pictures to web@timescolonist.com. We'll add some of our favourites to this gallery.

Islander

Photo gallery: The faces of RAVEN

Chad Hipolito / The Canadian Press

Indigenous youth from across Canada spent six weeks this summer at Work Point Barracks, getting a taste of life in the Canadian Armed Forces. Created in 2003, the RAVEN program is designed to give young people an idea of the careers available in the Armed Forces while putting them through a challenging training regime. Canadian Press photographer Chad Hipolito spent time with this summer’s students.

Local

Photo gallery: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Duncan, Richmond

Times Colonist

Justin Trudeau mingled with hundreds of friendly people at two family-focused events on Vancouver Island on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2018, but the prime minister was also reminded of the strong opposition his government faces over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Entertainment

Photo gallery: A rockin' time at Phillips Backyard Weekender

Times Colonist

The three-day Phillips Backyard Weekender continues Sunday from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Phillips Brewing & Malting Co., 2010 Government St. The New Jersey band Gate opens the show, followed by Miami Nights 1984, Liinks, the Sorority, Dessa and Hollie Cook. Closing the night is the Revolution, the former backing band for Prince.

Entertainment

Photo gallery: A picture-perfect paint-in for thousands

Times Colonist

The TD Art Gallery Paint-In, the region’s largest art event, featured the works of more than 190 artists on 10 blocks of Moss Street on Saturday, July 21, 2018.

Islander

Photo gallery: On the water with the Melges 24 yacht race

Times Colonist

Forty-three racing yachts and their crews from around the world sailed into Victoria this past week for the Melges 24 World Championship Regatta. The racing began on Tuesday and wrapped up on Saturday. Competing boats hailed from Canada, the U.S., U.K., Italy and Australia.

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