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How do you know how well your community is doing? Do you look out your car window as you drive home? Do you talk to your neighbours? Read the newspaper and watch the local news? The notion of measuring the well-being of a community is not a new conce

Women who have survived violence with a plan for a future without fear now have access to the SAFE (Self-sufficiency and Assets through Financial Education) program, an educational program provided by the Victoria Women’s Transition House that aims t

Gardeners in Victoria can help alleviate hunger and promote healthy eating in the community simply by planting an extra row (or two) of veggies this spring and sharing the harvest in the fall with those in need.

Everybody is a winner at the upcoming Fort Street Cycle Beginner Tri for MS, a non-competitive and fun version of a triathlon. This is the second year of the event, which takes place next Sunday.

Victoria was deeply embroiled in one of the most controversial development debates in its history when Steve Barber arrived from Winnipeg to take on the job as the city’s first full-time heritage planner just over 27 years ago.

Douglas Street, c. 1925 — Bill Bouchard Every year my grandmother, Rosabel Annie Latham, took the ferry from her home in Vancouver for a week in Victoria because it reminded her of her old home in England.

With the sun playing tag with the clouds and the intoxicating fragrance of cherry blossoms on the harbour, the setting seemed tailor-made for last Tuesday’s Tourism Turbo Drive event.

We asked for some of your stories about running in past Times Colonist 10K races. Here's what you told us

Penticton author and licence-plate collector Chris Garrish spent 12 years compiling Tales from the Back Bumper: A Century of B.C. Licence Plates, an account of B.C. history told from the perspective of the province’s licence plates.

In recent weeks, we asked readers to send in old postcards and photos with images of Greater Victoria and the Island from years past — and you delivered, in spades. We received so many the backlog may continue for several weeks, so this week we offer an expanded “Postcards” feature. Enjoy!