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Legally blind Langford man creates app to listen to online news stories hands-free

Greater Victoria Black Press news stories can now be listened to on Alexa smart speakers

Mar 15, 2023 7:30 PM Read more >

B.C.’s ‘cowboy cop’ investigating horse herd killed near Kamloops in ‘cruel act’

The herd may have roamed the area for hundreds of years after travelling to Canada from Russia

Mar 15, 2023 4:50 PM Read more >

B.C. exhibit honours Indigenous and Black lives lost to police violence

March 15 marks the International Day Against Police Brutality

Mar 15, 2023 4:30 PM Read more >

‘This marriage is not working’: Esquimalt wants to cut number of Victoria police in township

Council voted to reduce janitorial and building funds, defer body cam pilot and axe new positions

Mar 15, 2023 4:30 PM Read more >

Victoria and Esquimalt in favour of reducing proposed $6M police budget hike

Councils say new positions should wait a year as taxpayers face inflation pressures

Mar 15, 2023 4:20 PM Read more >

‘Cozy’ or just tiny? 350-square-foot Victoria microsuite priced at $1,900 as city rents jump 15%

Victoria named fourth most expensive rental market in Canada

Mar 15, 2023 4:00 PM Read more >

4 B.C. agri-businesses awarded $1.6M in federal funding for clean-technology projects

Projects designed to reduce runoff, get farms further off the grid and reduce fuel consumption

Mar 15, 2023 3:35 PM Read more >

Senior military officer acquitted of sexual assault sues government, PM for $6M

Suit alleges Dany Fortin suffered damages due to defamation and misfeasance in public office

Mar 15, 2023 3:30 PM Read more >

‘Sad statement’: community advocates speak out after businessman shot in Nanaimo

One man in hospital with gunshot wound after trying to recover stolen items from homeless camp

Mar 15, 2023 2:30 PM Read more >

BREAKING: Security guard stabbed south of Nanaimo

Victim rushed to hospital following altercation over alleged illegal fire

Mar 15, 2023 2:15 PM Read more >