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Alex Campbell

Alex Campbell honoured for a lifetime of leadership

His rags to riches story is well-known among Thrifty Foods staff past…

Alex Campbell

Registration underway for corporate challenge

Proceeds benefit Power to Be Adventure Therapy

  • Feb 8, 2011

One park promise fulfilled, one to go

From a pile of rubble will soon rise a new park for…

Online resource offers training for entrepreneurs

There's a new resource in Victoria for entrepreneurs looking to launch a…

  • Feb 8, 2011

Victoria: open for business

Year ahead to focus on customer service, prepare for retirements

Josh Mitchell is the inventor of Scufflinks

Victoria man invents ‘bling for your ankles’

There’s no telling when Josh Mitchell and his girlfriend Kailyn Bailey will…

Josh Mitchell is the inventor of Scufflinks
Sopranos Karaoke and Sports Bar.

Sopranos vows to remain in Victoria

Eviction fears follow B.C. Supreme Court ruling

Sopranos Karaoke and Sports Bar.
A container ship prepares to dock at Deltaport.

Ports already feeling pain of possible strike

Cargo diverting as longshoremen threaten to walk

A container ship prepares to dock at Deltaport.

New Hillside mall owners contemplate expansion

The new owners of Hillside Shopping Centre have an extra two years…

Greater Victoria house prices slide

The average price of a house in Greater Victoria in January dropped…

B.C. Ferries' Quadra Queen II is almost finished after seven months of repair work at Point Hope Maritime Shipyard. In under two weeks

Point Hope aims to expand

Shipyard completes biggest project in 15 years

B.C. Ferries' Quadra Queen II is almost finished after seven months of repair work at Point Hope Maritime Shipyard. In under two weeks
Don Denton/News staff West Coast Waffles will be hosting 50 people who regulariy use the Mustard Seed Food Bank to a dinner out at the restaurant on Feb. 6. Restaurant owner Jordan Brown

Restauranteur hopes dinner for poor catches on

West Coast Waffles serves meal to stuggling families

Don Denton/News staff West Coast Waffles will be hosting 50 people who regulariy use the Mustard Seed Food Bank to a dinner out at the restaurant on Feb. 6. Restaurant owner Jordan Brown

Voting opens for child-friendly services

Votes are being collected to decide Greater Victoria's most child-friendly services, businesses,…

  • Jan 25, 2011
Peter Nix pours a bag of coal onto a blanket at the B.C. legislature Tuesday

Coal exports boom, climate worries bloom

With coal exports booming and more mines opening in northeastern B.C., federal…

Peter Nix pours a bag of coal onto a blanket at the B.C. legislature Tuesday
Ryley MacKenzie

Victoria communications start-up targets business phone, Internet

Victoria's healthy high-tech industry added a new player, with a wireless telecom…

Ryley MacKenzie
B.C. Liberal leadership candidates George Abbott and Ed Mayne attend forestry forum at the Truck Loggers' Association convention in Victoria Wednesday.

B.C. Liberals woo coastal loggers

VICTORIA – B.C. Liberal leadership candidates made their pitches to coastal loggers…

B.C. Liberal leadership candidates George Abbott and Ed Mayne attend forestry forum at the Truck Loggers' Association convention in Victoria Wednesday.

Esquimalt closer to approving green building checklist

A green building checklist designed to further Esquimalt’s quest to become more…

Target acquires Zellers chain

Fate of Greater Victoria’s stores yet to be determined

  • Jan 18, 2011
Logging and roadbuilding equipment awaits auction on Vancouver Island in the fall of 2009. Coastal logging has begun to recover since the low point that saw some companies fold or consolidate due to poor market conditions.

Coastal loggers to quiz candidates

VICTORIA – B.C. Liberal candidates have been invited to the Truck Loggers'…

Logging and roadbuilding equipment awaits auction on Vancouver Island in the fall of 2009. Coastal logging has begun to recover since the low point that saw some companies fold or consolidate due to poor market conditions.
Forests Minister Pat Bell and Frank Everitt

Asian forest exports match U.S. sales

VICTORIA – Surging forest products sales to Asia have for the first…

Forests Minister Pat Bell and Frank Everitt