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Win hundreds of prizes during the Fall GoByBike Week

Pedro Arrais / Times Colonist

Celebrate fall by hopping on your bicycle during the Fall Go By Bike Victoria event, which runs until Oct. 3.The goal of the week-long celebration, hosted by Capital Bike and previously called Bike . . .

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Business

End of an era: Helmcken Market to close after 48 years as owners retire

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Shanon and Garvin Tse spent a lifetime building the Helmcken Market, expanding it from a small, live-in-the-back corner store to a mid-size grocery where you could buy everything from bread and . . .

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Saanich looks to raise fees, scrap club privileges at Cedar Hill Golf Course

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

A report prepared for Saanich council tonight is recommending increasing fees and scrapping privileges for the club that has preferential tee times and free use of the clubhouse at Cedar Golf . . .

Real Estate

Six-bedroom waterfront Saanich Peninsula home sells for record $22.75M

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

An unknown buyer has paid $22.75 million, the full asking price, for a six-bedroom waterfront home that sits on just over five acres on the Saanich Peninsula. Real estate firm Engel & Völkers. . .

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Ill seniors race to hospital, ambulance station after being put on hold with 911

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

Months after being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, Eileen Bell awoke in late August to a squeezing feeling in her chest, an aching jaw and a computerized watch indicating her heart rate was . . .

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Catch and release: Bail changes mean more accused criminals sent back into community

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

A sex offender is released on bail after breaking into his neighbour’s home, leaving Esquimalt residents on edge. Business owners are forced to replace windows and doors shattered by a man . . .

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Mount Tolmie residents 'angry, fearful' over shelter in their midst

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

A senior who lives across from the former Mount Tolmie Hospital says she was initially open to the idea of allowing some of the region’s unsheltered population take up residence in the building. . . .

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Government offices, schools to close for Sept. 30 holiday, but businesses undecided

Darron Kloster,  Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

Students won’t be in class and federal and some provincial employees will get a day off, but the new Sept. 30 holiday in honour of National Truth and Reconciliation Day won’t be mandatory in all . . .

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Billy the Goat visits Courtenay big-box stores while on the lam

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Billy the Goat likes to go shopping. He was seen checking out the specials inside the Courtenay Walmart, and apparently went looking for something to wear — or more likely eat — in Winners. The. . .

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With plenty of seals to eat, Bigg's orcas flooding Salish Sea; no longer regarded as 'transient'

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

She’s known as T37A, and was recently nicknamed Volker. But whale watchers in the Salish Sea fondly refer to the 27-year-old Bigg’s orca as the “baby machine.” Volker has produced five calves . . .

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It was not for nothing, says mother of fallen soldier who served in Afghanistan

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

Maureen Eykelenboom is filled with sadness watching the ­Taliban capture parts of Afghanistan, but Canada’s presence there and her son’s death “was not for nothing,” she said. Cpl. Andrew (Boomer. . .

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