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As a result of combined stormwater and wastewater overflows, residents are advised to avoid entering the waters along the affected shorelines, as the wastewater may pose a health risk. (Keri Coles/News staff)

Heavy rain prompts wastewater warning for more Greater Victoria shorelines

Public advised to avoid entering affected waters

As a result of combined stormwater and wastewater overflows, residents are advised to avoid entering the waters along the affected shorelines, as the wastewater may pose a health risk. (Keri Coles/News staff)
A police incident has shut down two blocks of Quadra Street. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)

UPDATED: Driver fled VicPD, collided with parked car on Quadra Street

One police officer left with non-life-threatening injuries

A police incident has shut down two blocks of Quadra Street. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)
West Shore RCMP release suspect sketch in sexual assault investigation

West Shore RCMP release suspect sketch in sexual assault investigation

Police seek public help to investigate April 14, 2019 assault

West Shore RCMP release suspect sketch in sexual assault investigation
Satellite Studio has created OpenStreetMap Haiku which uses data to create short poems about locations around the world. (Screenshot OpenStreetMap Haiku)

Designers create map that writes haikus about any location in the world

Map uses OpenStreetMap data to write short poems

Satellite Studio has created OpenStreetMap Haiku which uses data to create short poems about locations around the world. (Screenshot OpenStreetMap Haiku)
Royal Canadian Marine Search And Rescue Station 33 Oak Bay, Oak Bay Fire Rescue and BC Ambulance saved a woman from the ocean at Willows Beach on Saturday after a man found her belongings on the beach and called police. (Courtesy of Ivona Korbler)

Emergency crews save woman from ocean at Willows Beach

Emergency crews responded after man found her belongings, called police

Royal Canadian Marine Search And Rescue Station 33 Oak Bay, Oak Bay Fire Rescue and BC Ambulance saved a woman from the ocean at Willows Beach on Saturday after a man found her belongings on the beach and called police. (Courtesy of Ivona Korbler)
Traffic is reduced to a single lane on Sooke Road near Kangaroo Road while crews respond to a two-vehicle crash. (Randi Battersby/Black Press Media)

Traffic reduced to single lane on Sooke Road as crews respond to car crash

Emergency crews responding to two-vehicle crash

Traffic is reduced to a single lane on Sooke Road near Kangaroo Road while crews respond to a two-vehicle crash. (Randi Battersby/Black Press Media)
Sailings from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen filling up Saturday. (Nina Grossman/News Staff)

Ferries filling up Saturday after evening of stormy weather in Victoria

11 a.m. sailing from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen was 100 per cent full

Sailings from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen filling up Saturday. (Nina Grossman/News Staff)
Victoria Police Headquarters (Black Press Media file photo)

VicPD says downtown robbery, kidnapping attempts not connected

Further investigation has reduced the threat to the public

Victoria Police Headquarters (Black Press Media file photo)
Victoria researcher Josh McInnes spotted the very rare Type D killer whale while crossing the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica. (Courtesy of Josh McInnes)

Victoria researcher finds ‘holy grail’ of killer whales

Encounter marks farthest south Type D orcas have been spotted

Victoria researcher Josh McInnes spotted the very rare Type D killer whale while crossing the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica. (Courtesy of Josh McInnes)
VicPD arrested one man after a knife fight in Centennial Square on Thursday afternoon. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)

VicPD arrest man after knife fight in Centennial Square

One man treated for non-life-threatening injuries

VicPD arrested one man after a knife fight in Centennial Square on Thursday afternoon. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)
The View Royal Bike Park officially opened in the fall. It is one of many features at View Royal Park. (Town of View Royal/Twitter)

View Royal wants public say in its park master plan

Online survey can be taken until Jan. 14

The View Royal Bike Park officially opened in the fall. It is one of many features at View Royal Park. (Town of View Royal/Twitter)
As a result of combined stormwater and wastewater overflows, residents are advised to avoid entering the waters along the affected shorelines, as the wastewater may pose a health risk. (Keri Coles/News staff)

Heavy rain leads to wastewater overflow warning from CRD

Public advised to avoid entering affected waters

As a result of combined stormwater and wastewater overflows, residents are advised to avoid entering the waters along the affected shorelines, as the wastewater may pose a health risk. (Keri Coles/News staff)
(Black Press Media file photo)

Significant work on the horizon for SD61 in the new year

Vic High renovations, catchment boundary changes, strategic plan of interest in 2020/21

(Black Press Media file photo)
Shanna Dance, Susanna Adams, Maureen Washington and Maria Manna perform Aretha Franklin’s song Respect at The Bay Centre on Monday. The performance was a preview of the Aretha Franklin Tribute Concert which will be performed January 18 at the Alix Goolden Hall. (Courtesy of Heather Leary)

Bay Centre customers treated to Aretha Franklin flash mob ahead of tribute show

Five women performed Franklin’s well-known song Respect

Shanna Dance, Susanna Adams, Maureen Washington and Maria Manna perform Aretha Franklin’s song Respect at The Bay Centre on Monday. The performance was a preview of the Aretha Franklin Tribute Concert which will be performed January 18 at the Alix Goolden Hall. (Courtesy of Heather Leary)
Our Place Society communications director Grant McKenzie suggests hosts of a party should keep naloxone on hand. (Darryl Dick/The Canadian Press)

Heading to a party tonight? Consider picking up naloxone

Drug safety tips ahead of New Year’s Eve

Our Place Society communications director Grant McKenzie suggests hosts of a party should keep naloxone on hand. (Darryl Dick/The Canadian Press)
Kyla Johnson embraces a friend of 16-year-old Abby Barker. Johnson is Barker’s older sister. Barker, a 16-year-old West Shore girl died earlier this month from what family are saying is a suspected overdose. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)

Year in review: Top issues on the West Shore in 2019

Housing, transportation, cannabis and public safety were top issues this year

Kyla Johnson embraces a friend of 16-year-old Abby Barker. Johnson is Barker’s older sister. Barker, a 16-year-old West Shore girl died earlier this month from what family are saying is a suspected overdose. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)
A new bus stop has been added outside of The Butchart Gardens for the general public to use. (BC Transit)

Bus stop added in front of The Butchart Gardens

Public can now use bus stop outside of popular Peninsula tourist attraction

A new bus stop has been added outside of The Butchart Gardens for the general public to use. (BC Transit)
BC Ferries added 171 sailings over the holidays. (Nina Grossman/News Staff)

UPDATED: BC Ferries sailings still filling up Saturday after Christmas

Saturday morning and afternoon sailings full, with evening filling up

BC Ferries added 171 sailings over the holidays. (Nina Grossman/News Staff)
The deadline to connect to existing sewer lines is Dec. 31. Impacted property owners were mailed a letter from the City of Langford. (Black Press Media file photo)

Deadline to connect to Langford’s sewer system is New Year’s Eve

City says 95 per cent of eligible properties have already connected

The deadline to connect to existing sewer lines is Dec. 31. Impacted property owners were mailed a letter from the City of Langford. (Black Press Media file photo)
(Twitter/Erika Holmes)

Single-vehicle crash snarls traffic on Malahat late Friday morning

Impaired driving investigation underway by West Shore RCMP

(Twitter/Erika Holmes)
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