Since 2001, the Friends of Dominion Brook Park Society has been actively restoring the park, in partnership with the District of North Saanich and the Centre for Plant Health. Volunteers meet weekly ...

An oak tree planted in Langford to honour Canadian veterans has grown over six feet tall. Standing in Veterans Memorial Park, the tree commemorates the servicemen who died at Battle of Vimy Ridge in ...

A few days after Halloween, it was raining pumpkins in Saanich – literally. Returning for its second year, Tillicum Centre hosted the community-favourite Pumpkin Smash Bash, where countless orange ...

The former Stone Butter Church structure sits atop Comiaken Hill off of Tzouhalem Road near the Cowichan River estuary. As the sun set on the night of the full Harvest moon I wandered through the ...

I recently witnessed what I could only describe as an exercise in futility and waste of taxpayer money.

Nobody is measuring the true costs created by dedicated bike lanes. If our goal is to get more people out of their cars, some common sense is needed: a robust transport network for the majority needs ...

Shari Green was awarded the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People at a gala event in Toronto on Oct. 27 for her novel, Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams. “Green’s gripping novel ...

Kevin Kerr’s award-winning play, Unity (1918), coming to the Langham Court Theatre on Nov. 19 explores the ways in which one small community deals with the fear, mistrust and paranoia that resulted ...

A CPKC freight train derailed near Kamloops late in the evening of Saturday, Nov. 1. The derailment occurred approximately one kilometre east of Cherry Creek Station Road, west of Kamloops near the ...

Seeing belugas so close is one thing but hearing them brings us even greater intimacy. When our driver stops the boat and lowers a hydrophone over the side, it’s like we’re eavesdropping at a beluga ...

Shawn Wolf, another Victoria artist, has created his own take on the throne from Game of Thrones. In that story, warriors beat their swords into a throne for the new ruler. In Wolf’s work, swords have ...

Artist Sarah Leo in her Ladysmith studio, a creative haven where she paints, writes poetry and fills the room with music. When Ladysmith artist Sarah Leo began fainting without warning, she didn’t ...