Opinion

The Hartland landfill faces a revenue shortage. The $107 tipping fee covers the costs of running the dump and the region’s Blue Box recycling program.

Through 470 pages, the joint review panel report on the Site C dam proposal for the Peace River does everything short of making up its mind on the project. It’s an exhaustive outline of all the issues that lie behind building an $8-billion dam.

Island Health CEO Dr.

Last week, in an attempt to keep its services current, Parks Canada announced it will soon begin offering wireless Internet in as many as 50 national parks. The backlash was swift and unforgiving.

Much media attention has been given to the fact that Anjali Vyas, a recent graduate from Stelly’s Secondary School in Central Saanich, was awarded a contract for $16,000 to travel to Finland to study their teacher-preparation program and compare it t

The impasse over sewage treatment has some people asking whether our region can continue to be governed by multiple municipalities and a weak regional government.

The day of our first Tour de Rock training ride — the kind of day in early March that gives meaning to the phrase “it was a damp cold” — I rode into the Saanich police parking lot, took one look at the hard-bodied cops, who basically keep fit for a l

With the decision on the Keystone XL pipeline project delayed at least a year, it looks more and more as if it won’t get built at all.

Here’s how youth custody works for local girls, since the female wing of the Victoria Youth Custody Centre was closed. It’s a good indication of how the system will work for all offenders, once the centre is closed entirely.

Pipelines and tankers are a hot topic these days, with the federal government set to make a decision by June about whether to reject Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal that would bring more than 225 oil tankers a year through the heart of a region