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Mayor Kevin Murdoch and Couns. Braithwaite, Zhelka and Paterson moved Oak Bay further away from providing secondary housing options. Despite the carefully researched 100-page staff report indicating plenty of empty street parking in Oak Bay and despite the provincial Clean BC plan prioritizing active transportation and transit, the mayor broke the tie, requiring homeowners to either apply for special dispensation or build boarders or tenants a garage. Despite a recommendation from staff to the contrary, these same councilors also voted to prevent homeowners with a tenant from also housing a boarding student. Anyone who thinks Oak Bay has finally begun...

A Latter-day Saint missionary died Friday from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident in Mexico, according to statement by a church spokesman released Saturday evening.Elder Francisco Rene Lamadrid, 22, of Mérida, Mexico, died in Mexico City, where he had been serving since March 21 in the Mexico City East Mission, church spokesman Sam Penrod said.“It is with much sadness that we share that a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints passed away ...” Penrod said.Lamadrid was wearing a helmet when slippery conditions left him unable to negotiate a turn on his bike at the bottom of...

When people go skiing or snowboarding at their favorite ski resort they rarely think about the trash that lays beneath the layer of snow they are carving over en route to the bottom of the mountain. However, when the weather starts to warm up and the ski resorts close for the season the trash that has been hiding during the winter months starts to rise to the surface.  Keystone Ski Resort and Friends of the Dillon Ranger District sought to solve this issue on Friday, June 17. The two entities partnered together to hold a mountain cleanup event in order to...

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The near-completed Phase 1 of the Shelbourne Street Improvement Project has drawn praise for its improvements to pedestrian safety. And while local cyclists and advocates have criticized the lack of protected bike lanes evident on this first section of the massive five-kilometre project through Saanich, plans are in the works for this fall or winter to install pre-cast concrete barriers between Torquay Drive and Garnet Road to separate bikes from vehicle traffic. According to the district, the barrier plan for this stretch of road is included among the “quick build” recommendations from Saanich’s active transportation advisory committee that were approved...