Edward Hill

A runner makes her way along the Victoria waterfront.

PART 4: Running for different reasons

Victorians are serious about health and fitness, but road races see a decline as people shift to triathlon, adventure racing

A runner makes her way along the Victoria waterfront.
Camas Books volunteer and collective member Kim Croswell stands amid the store in the process of unpacking in its new location on Quadra Street.

Independent Camas Books thrives outside the mainstream

The mandate is to promote alternative knowledge and books

Camas Books volunteer and collective member Kim Croswell stands amid the store in the process of unpacking in its new location on Quadra Street.
Map collector Henry Wendt, from Friday Harbor, Wash., talks about his favourite map by Abraham Ortelius, printed in 1570. Wendt has loaned 30 of his maps for an exhibition at the Royal B.C. Museum until January 2013.

To the ends of the Earth

Royal BC Museum hosts a display of the world's oldest printed maps

Map collector Henry Wendt, from Friday Harbor, Wash., talks about his favourite map by Abraham Ortelius, printed in 1570. Wendt has loaned 30 of his maps for an exhibition at the Royal B.C. Museum until January 2013.
Camosun mechanical engineering student Victor van Schaik shows off the tip-tilt device his team built for the Plasket telescope to correct for atmospheric distortion.

Building a better mousetrap

Camosun mechanical engineering students present high-tech projects

Camosun mechanical engineering student Victor van Schaik shows off the tip-tilt device his team built for the Plasket telescope to correct for atmospheric distortion.

Year in jail for handyman fraud artist

Judge Robert Higginbotham sentenced Glen John French to 12 months for each of the 10 counts of fraud under $5,000.

Student Jenny Albrecht gives Advanced Education Minister John Yap and Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong a quick lesson in welding at Camosun College on Thursday.

Province funds $30M trades centre for Camosun

After 40 years of hard use, Camosun College’s trades training facilities will get a needed facelift and two new buildings

Student Jenny Albrecht gives Advanced Education Minister John Yap and Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong a quick lesson in welding at Camosun College on Thursday.
Dr. Andrew Weaver, from UVic's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, speaks during a noon hour Rally For Science held outside the federal government building on Government Street to protest cutbacks to scientific programs, institutions and research.

Scientists protest federal cutbacks to environmental monitoring

Noted scientist calls latest Franklin expedition a front for oil and gas exploration

Dr. Andrew Weaver, from UVic's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, speaks during a noon hour Rally For Science held outside the federal government building on Government Street to protest cutbacks to scientific programs, institutions and research.
University of Victoria neuropsychology professors Kimberly Kerns, left, and  Colette Smart demonstrate an EEG cap that measures the brain's electrical activity. The professors hope to develop a therapy to improve cognitive abilities of youth and adults with fetal alcohol disorders.

Undoing the damage of fetal alcohol disorders

UVic researchers suspect therapy for traumatic brain injuries could translate to positive outcomes for people with fetal alcohol disorders

University of Victoria neuropsychology professors Kimberly Kerns, left, and  Colette Smart demonstrate an EEG cap that measures the brain's electrical activity. The professors hope to develop a therapy to improve cognitive abilities of youth and adults with fetal alcohol disorders.

Saanich teenager attacks woman in her home

A young woman was attacked last night in her home by a teen male in what police describe as a random assault.

Victoria men charged with securities crimes

Three Victoria-area men face charges relating to improperly selling securities four years ago

This artist's rendition shows how Broadmead Village plans to modernize its storefronts and reinvigorate its breezeway plaza in a year-long project starting in September.

New look and feel coming to Broadmead Village

The Broadmead shopping centre will undergo a year-long facelift starting this September.

This artist's rendition shows how Broadmead Village plans to modernize its storefronts and reinvigorate its breezeway plaza in a year-long project starting in September.
An arist rendering of the Heights at Mount View, a seven storey, 260-unit residential care facility on Carey Road in Saanich, which starts construction this week.

Construction begins on residential care building in Saanich

Greater Victoria seniors needing round-the-clock care will have a modern facility in two years as construction gets underway this week

An arist rendering of the Heights at Mount View, a seven storey, 260-unit residential care facility on Carey Road in Saanich, which starts construction this week.
German university student in forestry Georg Dischner (right) is interning and volunteering with the Mount Douglas Park Society this summer to get a hands-on look at forest habitat restoration. Here Dischner and society president Darrell Wick stand in a trench dug by water flowing from a stormwater pipe that needs an upgrade.

Fixing the forest

Mount Douglas park society brings on its first student intern as it works to keep the urban forest healthy

German university student in forestry Georg Dischner (right) is interning and volunteering with the Mount Douglas Park Society this summer to get a hands-on look at forest habitat restoration. Here Dischner and society president Darrell Wick stand in a trench dug by water flowing from a stormwater pipe that needs an upgrade.
Nathan Lam, 26, dives for the Frisbee during ultimate practice at the fields of Lansdowne middle school last Thursday. This month, for the first time in 15 years, Victoria is hosting the Canadian ultimate championships. The tournament is expected to draw 72 teams with 1,500 athletes from as far away as Newfoundland.

Victoria hosts ultimate nationals

72 teams, 1,500 athletes to vie for first championship in Capital Region for 15 years

Nathan Lam, 26, dives for the Frisbee during ultimate practice at the fields of Lansdowne middle school last Thursday. This month, for the first time in 15 years, Victoria is hosting the Canadian ultimate championships. The tournament is expected to draw 72 teams with 1,500 athletes from as far away as Newfoundland.
Saanich police Const. Doug Franklin stands watch at a Tattersall Drive home raided on Tuesday for guns.

Update: Police raid Saanich home for guns

They came for the guns, but stayed for the cocaine and ecstacy.

Saanich police Const. Doug Franklin stands watch at a Tattersall Drive home raided on Tuesday for guns.
Up and coming Victoria-based opera singer Sarah Vardy is performing in Don Giovanni at the University of Victoria next week. The busy 33-year-old soprano will be auditioning in Germany, touring China and competing in Italy this year.

Soprano sings opera – minus the horns

The Vivace production of Don Giovanni is July 31, Aug. 1-2, 7 p.m. at the University of Victoria MacLaurin Building

Up and coming Victoria-based opera singer Sarah Vardy is performing in Don Giovanni at the University of Victoria next week. The busy 33-year-old soprano will be auditioning in Germany, touring China and competing in Italy this year.
Lars Grammel and Jamie Starke, PhD students with UVic’s computer human interaction software engineering lab, developed a handy web program that maps apartment rentals across Greater Victoria.

Apartment hunting in Victoria? There’s a web app for that

It’s been a rite of passage for University of Victoria students for decades – the panicked, desperate scramble to find housing

Lars Grammel and Jamie Starke, PhD students with UVic’s computer human interaction software engineering lab, developed a handy web program that maps apartment rentals across Greater Victoria.
Saanich police quartermaster Kevin Nunn pulls a 70 pound weight up the steep Mount Doug road. Nunn is training to pull a BMW Mini around UVic's Ring Road 12 times, about 21 kilometres, in September to raise money for Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock.

Ramping up the crazy, for the kids

A Saanich police employee preps to pull a car 21 kilometres to raise money for pediatric cancer research

Saanich police quartermaster Kevin Nunn pulls a 70 pound weight up the steep Mount Doug road. Nunn is training to pull a BMW Mini around UVic's Ring Road 12 times, about 21 kilometres, in September to raise money for Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock.

Water fountain campaign nearing goal

Water fountains should be cropping up soon on the Galloping Goose and Lochside regional trails, thanks to a former marathon coach.

B.C.-based juggler and comedian Alex Elixir is performing at the Victoria International Buskers Festival, starting this week.

Buskers invade Victoria

Weather won’t dampen spirits at talent festival

B.C.-based juggler and comedian Alex Elixir is performing at the Victoria International Buskers Festival, starting this week.