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Add your home or business to our map of holiday light displays

Add your home or business to our map of holiday light displays

The Times Colonist Christmas Lights Map features the region's best holiday light displays! We'll update the map through the holidays, so add your home or business.
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Donate to the 2024 Times Colonist Christmas Fund

Donate to the 2024 Times Colonist Christmas Fund

We have raised and distributed millions of dollars through our Christmas Fund over the years — including $1.12 million last year alone — and the success is a direct result of your generosity.
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Who are the Border Patrol chaplains? And why does the agency need more of them now?

Who are the Border Patrol chaplains? And why does the agency need more of them now?

DANIA BEACH, Florida (AP) — Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents.
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Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents

Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents

DANIA BEACH, Florida (AP) — As immigration remains a hotly contested priority for the Trump administration after playing a decisive role in the deeply polarized election , the Border Patrol agents tasked with enforcing many of its laws are wrestling
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Man who died on bus a longtime Munro's bookseller who helped launch Earth Week events

Man who died on bus a longtime Munro's bookseller who helped launch Earth Week events

Doug Koch, 66, had left the bookstore on Government Street Saturday morning, saying he felt unwell.
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Edmunds: The longest-range EVs you can buy for under $50,000

Edmunds: The longest-range EVs you can buy for under $50,000

Electric vehicles are growing in popularity but still make up a small percentage of total car sales. More than two decades of vehicle and infrastructure development have yielded only a 6.8% market share for EVs in the United States.
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Fifteen acres added to Saanich Peninsula's John Dean Park

Fifteen acres added to Saanich Peninsula's John Dean Park

The land, acquired by the B.C. Parks Foundation from a private landowner, includes some of the last old-growth Douglas fir and Garry oak stands on the Peninsula
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Germany's Merkel recalls Putin's 'power games' and contrasting US presidents in her memoirs

Germany's Merkel recalls Putin's 'power games' and contrasting US presidents in her memoirs

BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexi
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Germany's Merkel recalls Putin's 'power games' and contrasting US presidents in her memoirs

Germany's Merkel recalls Putin's 'power games' and contrasting US presidents in her memoirs

BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexi
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Millions will eat cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving. But where do those cranberries come from?

Millions will eat cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving. But where do those cranberries come from?

MIDDLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Weeks before Thanksgiving, some of the cranberries on dinner plates Thursday are floating on the Rocky Meadow bog in southeastern Massachusetts. The cranberries have turned this pond pinkish crimson.
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