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Monique Keiran: Why monitoring faraway mountain reservoirs is important

Freshwater storehouses refresh rivers with cool, plentiful water in months when air temperatures are high and water levels tend to be at their lowest

Jun 16, 2024 12:58 AM Read more >

CRD park rangers, police to patrol regional trails on bikes this summer

Basic trail etiquette includes keeping to the right except to pass, controlling speed (especially on e-bikes), yielding to pedestrians, horse riders and farm equipment, and alerting other users when passing.

Jun 9, 2024 5:24 AM Read more >

Patricia Coppard: Not prepared to share the trail? Feel free to take your chances on the road

Virtually every reader who wrote in agreed something needs to be done about the Wild West that鈥檚 developed as fast-moving powered vehicles have proliferated on regional trails.

Jun 9, 2024 2:40 AM Read more >

Crash near Selkirk trestle illustrates need for a traffic circle

Another cyclist came off Tyee Road onto the Goose, accelerating to make it over the trestle bridge, just as I was coming down the hill out of Banfield Park.

Jun 9, 2024 2:32 AM Read more >

Some cyclists treat other trail users as badly as the worst drivers treat cyclists

I slow down when I am around other people on the trails, for their sake and my own.

Jun 9, 2024 2:31 AM Read more >

Inattentive cyclist crashed into mom, daughter and friends walking on Goose

The cyclist came up from behind and hit me in the shoulder and my friend in the elbow. The bike landed on top of my daughter, who lay motionless, face down on the trail.

Jun 9, 2024 2:29 AM Read more >

E-bike trail etiquette: Speed is intoxicating, but shouldn't trump courtesy

Bike lanes and paths and dedicated signage and lights have been a carrot for cyclists, but it鈥檚 time for a little stick

Jun 9, 2024 2:25 AM Read more >

Our Community: Cook Street block party, Run for the Cure

There will be two stages at Sunday鈥檚 event 鈥� one for music and one for magic 鈥� and more than 150 artisans, food vendors and businesses are expected to participate

Jun 9, 2024 12:53 AM Read more >

Our Community: Victoria Hospital Foundation raises record $1M; new dock for Elk Lake

CRD shows off accessibility features in regional parks; Victoria Hospitals Foundation gala raises a record-breaking $1 million for its Imaging is Power campaign

Jun 3, 2024 2:14 AM Read more >

'We had to race like crazy': Remembering Islanders' D-Day role 80 years on

91原创 Island sacrificed disproportionately on June 6, 1944 鈥� soldiers of the Victoria-based 91原创 Scottish Regiment were among the first ashore in Normandy on D-Day

Jun 2, 2024 5:18 AM Read more >