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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
The historic Tam Kung temple in Chinatown finished second — earning a much-needed $10,000 for renovations — in an online contest designed to spruce up significant heritage sites in Canada. The oldest operating Chinese temple in the country was among 12 sites in the running for the National Trust’s annual Canada’s Next Save competition.
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1 week ago | 
squamishchief.com | Darron Kloster
Flight delays at Vancouver International Airport due to a shortage of air traffic controllers and other resources at Nav Canada were having a knock-on effect in Victoria on Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
Flight delays at Vancouver International Airport due to a shortage of air traffic controllers and other resources at Nav Canada were having a knock-on effect in Victoria on Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
Oak Bay council got an early look this week at plans to build a 423-bed student-housing building at Camosun’s Lansdowne campus, part of which could count toward the municipality’s provincially imposed housing targets. The $154.7-million project was announced last July and is expected to provide students with much-needed housing in a six-storey building.
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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
The B.C. Supreme Court has upheld the jail sentence and fine for a Tofino man who killed a black bear sow and her cub with a crossbow after finding them in a tree outside his home. “We’re pleased to see the courts dismissed the appeal and agreed with the Crown’s sentencing recommendations,” Sgt. Dan Eichstadter of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service said in a statement on Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
Buckle up — it could be a long bumpy ride ahead for the local economyThat’s what businesses attending a Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce panel event on U.S. relations were told on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s daily gyrations on social and economic policy — not to mention a Canadian federal election on April 28 — have brought uncertainty around everything from trade and travel to investments, according to leaders in banking, building, economic development and tourism.
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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
Culinary and baking students at Nanaimo’s Vancouver Island University are going all out to claim a world record they feel rightfully belongs to the city. The students want make the world’s biggest Nanaimo bar — that rich and chocolatey, no-bake, three-layer sweet delicacy that its namesake city has embraced as its own for decades. The world record belongs to the Gorham family from Levack, Ont., who, in 2020, made a 530-pound Nanaimo bar slab, eight feet long, 44 inches wide and three inches thick.
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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
The Diocese of Victoria has started construction on an early learning centre at St. Joseph’s Elementary School that will bring an extra 58 child care spaces. The $6.5-million project at the school on Burnside Road West will replace aging portable classrooms with a two-storey, 6,880-square-foot facility, designed to enhance early childhood education and create a pathway into early grades.
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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
The oldest church in Victoria is whole again. The ornate spire on the Church of Our Lord — removed two years ago over safety concerns — is back on its belfry and reaching to the heavens again after a massive crane nimbly placed a new replica on Friday. It is hoped a 200-pound cast-iron bell, which was also nestled back into place, will be ringing again by Easter Sunday — or sooner, said Rev. Rob Szo, rector of the 160-year-old church on Blanshard Street.
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1 week ago | 
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
B.C.’s civilian police watchdog is investigating after two pedestrians were struck by a vehicle driven by an off-duty police officer in North Cowichan on Thursday. Both pedestrians involved in the collision with the SUV were taken to the hospital with injuries and both are in serious but stable condition. The collision happened just before 6 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway between York Road and Beverley Street, near University Way.
