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'Grazie mille': Downtown Victoria deli sold after 4 decade run
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (256+ words) Published 7:40 am Monday, July 27, 2026 A beloved downtown lunchtime staple is changing hands. Owners Maurizio and Massimo Segato took to social media over the weekend to announce the sale of Italian Food Imports on Blanshard Street. “Our family started the Italian…...
Bear killed, two people injured after chain-reaction crash in Sooke
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (182+ words) Published 11:00 am Thursday, July 23, 2026 A bear was killed and two people suffered minor injuries after a chain-reaction crash on Sooke Road earlier this week. Sooke RCMP responded to the 5600 block of Sooke Road on July 21 after receiving a report that…...
Nominations open for 2nd annual Greater Victoria little library awards
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (265+ words) Published 4:30 am Thursday, July 23, 2026 With more than 1,000 little free libraries dotting the South Island landscape, residents may be hard-pressed to pick a favourite, but the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network hopes readers, knitters, gardeners and more will do just that in…...
Saanich backs 8-townhouse project on Shelbourne Street
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (354+ words) Published 2:30 pm Wednesday, July 22, 2026 Saanich council has approved a rezoning and development permit application that will allow an eight-unit townhouse complex at 4104 Shelbourne St. at the July 20 meeting. The approved proposal seeks to rezone the 2,877-square-metre property from Single Family…...
Free event invites residents to explore Island View Beach in Central Saanich
1+ week, 3+ day ago (289+ words) Published 11:30 am Thursday, July 16, 2026 By Peninsula News Review Staff Celebrate life on Island View Beach at the July 29 drop-in event with CRD Regional Parks naturalists, Indigenous cultural programmer and special guest organizations. (CRD/Facebook) Celebrate life on the beach with…...
Langford artist stirs memories of Japanese Canadian life during B.C. exile
1+ week, 5+ day ago (713+ words) Published 5:45 am Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Marlene Howell at the Goldfinch Arts Centre in Colwood, with some of the collection on display as part of her ‘To See Is To Remember’ exhibition. (Ben Fenlon/Goldstream Gazette) Marlene Howell with her painting ‘From…...
LETTER: Esquimalt development swaps ancient ecosystem for asphalt
2+ week, 1+ day ago (226+ words) Saanich News LETTER: Esquimalt development swaps ancient ecosystem for asphalt Published 6:30 am Sunday, July 12, 2026 The townhouse proposal for 903 Admirals Rd. poses an unacceptable environmental and cultural loss to our community. The current site layout requires clear-cutting 33 protected, mature Garry oak…...
Free-B Film Festival returns to Victoria park with moon men and monsters
2+ week, 1+ day ago (304+ words) Published 5:30 am Sunday, July 12, 2026 An invasion of sorts begins this August as Victoria’s Free-B Film Festival returns to Beacon Hill Park with six free nights of cult classics, fantasy adventures and B-movie treasures. The festival takes place Friday and Saturday…...
Sooke serial killer sea otter joins Victoria marmot on missing critter list
2+ week, 4+ day ago (631+ words) Published 5:30 am Thursday, July 9, 2026 Yellow-bellied marmot Roger has yet to been seen this year at his home in the grounds of Fairmont Empress Hotel. (Courtesy of Alex Buck) For fans of famous Greater Victoria critters, 2026 is not shaping up to…...
B.C. man among 37 charged in major U.S. crackdown on Indian crime syndicates
2+ week, 5+ day ago (443+ words) Published 3:00 pm Tuesday, July 7, 2026 First assistant attorney for the Central District of California speaking to the media at a press conference on July 7, 2026, in Los Angeles, where the charges were announced. (@USAO_LosAngeles/ x.com) 80 kilograms of a “substance containing a detectable amount…...