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Increased demand as the B.C. economy re-opens has prompted B.C. Ferries to add sailings to the Southern Gulf Islands.

Times 91Ô­´´ 10K organizers presented this year’s race shirt to provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Premier John Horgan at the premier’s office on Tuesday.

The province of B.C. has bought the 75-room Paul’s Motor Inn on Douglas Street for about $15 million to add to its stock of temporary supportive housing for people without homes in Victoria. It’s the second Victoria hotel B.C.

The University of Victoria will welcome moviegoers back to campus for three nights of drive-in theatre screenings this week, joining a growing list of exhibitors turning to the decades-old format as a viable entertainment option.

91Ô­´´ FC became the first Island team to return to officially practising in groups Monday in perhaps a sign of the turning of the tide for sports following the phased-in lifting of provincial COVID-19 restrictions.

Erin Bremner-Mitchell says her daughter, seven-year-old Claire, was full of excitement Monday as she returned to Grade 2 at Sidney Elementary, while mom was happy to be going back to the office at Cascadia Seaweed after weeks of working from home.

A growing chorus of university and college students on 91Ô­´´ Island is calling for tuition-fee reductions, saying they’re not receiving the same quality of education through online programs.

When 86-year-old Don Malcolm tried to reach through the glass window of his seniors’ home to his wife on the other side, it was almost too painful to bear for her.

Ed Bain and Jeff King are idiots. I mean that in a positive way. When they cheerfully goofball their way through the Upside on CHEK, it’s as though somebody gave Brent and Hank from Corner Gas their own segment on the TV news.