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News In Victoria: Latest Stories

COVID-19

Visualizing BC's "hidden" COVID-19 victims

By Snejana Vorona
September 21, 2020

Beyond its confirmed COVID-19 fatalities, since lockdowns began BC has seen several hundred more deaths than would be typical

Wildlife

How a roadside zoo unleashed a lizard invasion on Victoria 

By Omar Washington
September 20, 2020

Known as Rudy’s Pet Park, the 60s-era attraction was singularly responsible for the now-ubiquitous common wall lizards swarming the Capital Region

Wildfires

Tired of the smoke? Blame bad forestry policy

By Harley Gordon
September 18, 2020

Years of disrupting the forests' natural burn cycle has predictably yielded the apocalyptic firestorm now choking the West Coast with haze

Wildlife

Can you really just have a python live in your backpack?

By Tori Marlan
September 17, 2020

Following up on the ball python who died in Victoria after repeatedly escaping from the bag of its apparently homeless owner.

Wildfires

Haunting photos of Victoria under the smoke

By James MacDonald
September 16, 2020

This has not been a good year for Vancouver Islanders who like to breathe freely

Politics

What happened when the BC government started selling cannabis

By Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin
September 11, 2020

Licensing delays, layoffs, shuttered businesses, raids.

Homelessness

PHOTOS: Inside the tenting community at Beacon Hill Park

By Anna J. James
September 8, 2020

We recently spent time in the park and spoke to campers.

Addiction

Meet the Rig Diggers: Current and former addicts who collect used needles in Victoria

By Anna J. James
September 2, 2020

They usually find eight per shift. Last week they broke a record.

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