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Space invaders: These plants are bad news for your garden — and for the environment

There are many invasive plant species on Vancouver Island, but a few stand out as the worst culprits when it comes to affecting local plants and habitats.

Oct 14, 2024 5:15 AM Read more >

Our Community: Sooke mural celebrates Indigenous culture; a Halloween waterway cleanup

A new mural inspired by T’Sou-ke Nation culture has been unveiled at Sooke’s “Heritage Row,” replacing a mural installed in the 1990s depicting the area’s logging history.

Oct 13, 2024 4:30 AM Read more >

David Sovka: Gravity, maple syrup and other things I'm thankful for

The thankfulness sharing tradition requires some quick thinking when the good stuff — family, health, avoiding jail time after that little incident at Costco — is already taken

Oct 13, 2024 4:00 AM Read more >

Trevor Hancock: We need a government that cares about the well-being of the planet

Somehow we have to get the next provincial government to take a long-term and less-partisan view, for the good of the whole province and for future generations.

Oct 13, 2024 3:45 AM Read more >

B.C. drone company building 'Google Streetview in the sky'

Vancouver-based company claims to have built the largest drone imaging network on Earth.

Oct 7, 2024 7:00 AM Read more >

Our Community: Chinatown museum to be permanent; Quadra centre marks 50th

The main emphasis of the Fan Tan Alley museum will be on Chinese people who came to Canada through Victoria

Oct 6, 2024 4:15 AM Read more >

Monique Keiran: Our salmon Ninja Warriors aren't faring well

The latest State of Salmon report by the non-profit Pacific Salmon Foundation shows declines in Pacific salmon abundance are widespread across both B.C. and the Yukon

Oct 6, 2024 4:00 AM Read more >

Trevor Hancock: Environmental costs of growing food aren’t reflected in the price we pay

A 2021 paper prepared for the UN Food Systems Summit estimated that the true cost of food, globally, should be about three times what it is

Oct 6, 2024 3:45 AM Read more >

Our Community: Colquitz Park restoration, cleaning up Clayoquot Sound

Learn more about plans for the Colquitz Park shoreline at an open house and the expansion of the marine-debris drop zone program for Clayoquot Sound.

Sep 30, 2024 4:15 AM Read more >

Saving the Mill Farm: The story of how Salt Spring Island Conservancy got its start

An excerpt from a new book on local nature conservancies digs into the early days of the Salt Spring group, and how a surprising turn in court helped it save a 160-acre farm

Sep 29, 2024 4:45 AM Read more >