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Victoria's crime severity index up, but 'don't press the panic button'

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

Newly released data from Statistics Canada shows the volume and severity of police-reported crime in the city of Victoria last year was significantly higher than both the provincial average and . . .

Ships head from Ogden Point to clean up Great Pacific Garbage Patch

First-year UVic students scrounge for housing amid shortage of on-campus spaces

Victorians brace for the next heat wave; high-20s, low-30s expected

Hicks says he won't run again, but he's not handing in the keys to the ...

Man arrested in string of indecent acts at Elk Lake beach

Central Saanich lands new fire chief

Humboldt Street ping-pong table moved for bollard repairs, but it's back

Fire razes Nanaimo Christmas tree farm; so dry, 'mufflers from trucks were ...

'I felt hands coming and lifting my head up': First Nations leader recalls ...

Public gets say Thursday on redeveloping two of Victoria’s oldest buildings

Drought: Farmers fight to save crops, tourists urged to bring water with them

Do you recognize these people? Museum asks for help identifying historic photos

Glass ornament scorches mulch, as heat, drought raise fire danger on Island

Catalyst wants required minimum water flows into Cowichan River reduced

B.C. Ferries hopes for whale-free weekend to handle expected crush of traffic

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Active COVID-19 infections in B.C. tick up to 695 over weekend; 18 new cases on ...

Shellfish warning issued after spike in illnesses linked to B.C. heat wave

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Salmon getting through Fraser River slide zone as officials ponder permanent fix

RCMP probe 'suspicious' wildfires in B.C.'s southern Interior

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Do you recognize these people? Museum asks for help identifying historic photos

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

The Royal B.C. Museum is asking people to take a peek at some historic black-and-white photographs that were donated anonymously. The photos arrived in a box labelled “Brentwood Bay,” but no . . .

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One year later: Pender Island couple living off the land more than met the challenge

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Stef Lowey and Chris Hall will pop the cork on a bottle of champagne on Aug. 2 — at exactly 12:01 a.m. “It’s been sitting on our counter top all year staring at us,” Hall says with a laugh. It . . .

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Barriers keep back waves of curious visitors at Fisherman's Wharf — for now

Pedro Arrais / Times Colonist

With tourist numbers starting to pick up, residents of the float home community at Fisherman’s Wharf are apprehensive of what the future brings when traffic from cruise ships returns. The Greater. . .

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Invasion of the wall lizards: They are beyond eradication on Island

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

They are crawling all over Saanich and Victoria, in thick bunches on the Peninsula and in Langford. They’ve been spotted in Metchosin. There are large populations in Shawnigan Lake and Nanaimo and . . .

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Harassers of resident orcas could face $1M fine, jail time

Stefan Labbé / Glacier Media

Boaters who don’t follow mandatory sanctuary and approach distances could be fined up to $1 million and face up to 18 months in jail. B.C.’s federal whale protection unit has warned boaters, . . .

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How you can help B.C.'s wildfire victims

The Times Colonist

Many British Columbians are looking for ways to help those affected by the wildfires in B.C.’s Interior. Here are a few options. United for B.C. fund The United Way is relaunching its United . . .

Opinion

To stay cool, leave house windows closed or open?

Phillip Jang / Times Colonist

The assumption here is that you want to keep your house as cool as possible in hot weather without resorting to air conditioning.

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Man in underwear saves goats from grizzly

Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

Ben McGuffie didn’t hesitate when he heard two of his Nigerian dwarf goats making a racket after he headed to bed Monday night. Dressed only in underwear and a T-shirt, the Quadra Island man . . .

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Comment: 'This is the trauma our families have carried for generations'

Adam Olsen / .

A statement by the Green MLA for Saanich North and the Islands in the legislature on Monday. Today my family and the entire B.C. Green caucus team stands with our relatives in the Interior. We . . .

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Woman pulls neighbour to safety after explosion: ‘Your mind says go, you go’

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

On Saturday afternoon, Suzanne Fortin heard “one hell of a boom” and rushed out of her home at the Duncan RV Park. “At first I thought it was a tree that fell on one of the units and then I saw . . .

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