News In Victoria: Latest Stories

Homelessness

Inside Victoria’s newest tent city

By Anna J. James
October 1, 2020

With 112 tents and counting, park behind Crystal Pool becomes latest stop on merry-go-round of Victoria tent encampments

COVID-19

“I called 75 times”: Severe backups at testing call centre hinder Island’s COVID-19 response

By Tori Marlan
September 29, 2020

While rapid testing was key to BC’s early success in fighting COVID-19, this has now given way to some of the longest wait times in the country

COVID-19

COVID-19 cases are spiking again. Here’s why it's different this time.

By Harley Gordon
September 28, 2020

The second wave of COVID-19 is shaping up to be way less deadly than the first

Disaster

The one thing that could save Tofino

By Daren Zomerman
September 26, 2020

The Big One will kill 1,850 if it hits Tofino at the height of summer. The only thing that can stop it is getting ignored. 

BC Election 2020

How to hold an election in the middle of a pandemic

By Capital Daily Staff
September 24, 2020

For starters, you'll have to bring your own pencil

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