1+ day, 21+ min ago   (418+ words) A new Netflix series filmed around Greater Victoria is putting a number of Vancouver Island businesses, landmarks and familiar landscapes in the international spotlight. Crew Girl, a series centered around competitive rowing, was released on Netflix this week after filming…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (124+ words) The two waterslides at the Oak Bay Recreation Centre are closed indefinitely after a recent inspection. The waterslides, which were commissioned in 1985 and 1998, are closed until further notice for more assessment and inspection to take place. “Following the additional inspection…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (316+ words) The Town of Ladysmith paid tribute to the community’s longest-serving elected official, Coun. Duck Paterson, at a council meeting Tuesday. Paterson has served as a councillor for 38 years, and attended his last in-person council meeting on Tuesday. “His decades of…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (519+ words) University of Victoria students are welcomed back to campus with UVic’s first pop-up drug checking service. Doctors for Safer Drug Policy is hosting the pop-up booth Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m. and Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to educate new and…...

5+ day, 21+ min ago   (264+ words) As daylight hours shorten, the BC SPCA urges drivers to slow down and watch for owls and other wildlife near roads. The organization says the transition into autumn typically brings an increase in owl patients at its Wild Animal Rehabilitation…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (273+ words) A new 150-seat building was finished in time to welcome students back to school at Chase River Elementary in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District. The addition at the school is one of 23 projects the provincial government was celebrating being complete in…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (528+ words) The Island Crisis Care Society says it needs to close its community kitchen in Nanaimo to focus on its mandate of helping the less fortunate. The society says it’s been renting its commercial kitchen on Bowen Road to 14 tenants, but…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (810+ words) On a remote BC island, a community-owned dock could give people who live on their boats a place to tie up for the winter as housing pressures grow. Many of the residents have lived near Cortes Island, off BC’s central…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (333+ words) The smoke and smell of barbecue will soon be wafting over Esquimalt once again as the community’s annual Ribfest returns next weekend. Esquimalt Ribfest will take over Bullen Park for three days, Sept. 11-13, bringing together barbecue, food trucks, live music…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (435+ words) More than 50 unique and historic vessels are moored in Victoria’s Inner Harbour for the 47th annual Victoria Classic Boat Festival. The Maritime Museum of B.C. took over the festival in 2017 and maintains a fleet of vessels, including the 130-year-old Dorothy Skiff,…...