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The entrance to Country Club Way is now closed, with people looking to access the trails behind either having to sign a waiver if they live in Bear Mountain or pay a $45 access fee. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
The entrance to Country Club Way is now closed, with people looking to access the trails behind either having to sign a waiver if they live in Bear Mountain or pay a $45 access fee. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Jessica Tuomela with her golden retriever Lucy, who she has been training to work as a discriminant scent-trailing canine. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Saanich Paralympian finds missing person with the help of her dog

Lucy, a discriminant scent-trailing canine, found a missing person around Elk Lake

Jessica Tuomela with her golden retriever Lucy, who she has been training to work as a discriminant scent-trailing canine. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
A housing development under construction on Peatt Road in Langford on May 19. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Langford sees busiest start to the year ever for housing starts

570 homes were started during the first four months of this year

A housing development under construction on Peatt Road in Langford on May 19. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Players from Reynolds Secondary School run to celebrate winning the penalty shootout which secured victory in the senior girls’ soccer AAA Island championship final against Stelly’s Stingers on Tuesday (May 16) at Goudy Field in Langford. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

PHOTOS: Saanich’s Reynolds Secondary wins girls Island soccer championship

Nail-biting penalty shootout secures Reynolds’ spot at provincials

Players from Reynolds Secondary School run to celebrate winning the penalty shootout which secured victory in the senior girls’ soccer AAA Island championship final against Stelly’s Stingers on Tuesday (May 16) at Goudy Field in Langford. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Te Jessie (left) and Kieran Poissant are both set to take part in the BC Lions training camp starting May 10. (Westshore Rebels/Facebook)

Two Westshore Rebels headed to BC Lions training camp

Te Jessie and Kieran Poissant training with the CFL team

Te Jessie (left) and Kieran Poissant are both set to take part in the BC Lions training camp starting May 10. (Westshore Rebels/Facebook)
OakTree Naturals owner Aman Jiwani packs up shop before moving to a space on Hillside Avenue. (Black Press Media file photo)

Former Langford business owner calls for rent cap on commercial rate increases

‘The cost of doing business in B.C. continues to rise,’ says West Shore chamber executive director

OakTree Naturals owner Aman Jiwani packs up shop before moving to a space on Hillside Avenue. (Black Press Media file photo)
A marine conservation area around the Gulf Islands is not currently on the horizon, according to Parks Canada. (Black Press Media file photo)

Gulf Island marine conservation area not on Parks Canada’s radar

First pitched in 2011, proposal could create area off limits to shipping

A marine conservation area around the Gulf Islands is not currently on the horizon, according to Parks Canada. (Black Press Media file photo)
Students from three Langford schools marched along Goldstrem Avenue for Red Dress Day. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

PHOTOS: Red Dress Day honoured by Langford schools with march down Goldstream

Students march from Ruth King to Savory to raise awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Students from three Langford schools marched along Goldstrem Avenue for Red Dress Day. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Crime was down 5.3% overall on the West Shore in 2022. (Black Press Media file photo)

West Shore RCMP aims to start mental health team to tackle rise in violent crime, shoplifting

Langford sees crimes against people jump to 673 in 2022, up from 580

Crime was down 5.3% overall on the West Shore in 2022. (Black Press Media file photo)
Sasha and Melissa Perron ahead of their run on May 4. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Indigenous runners commemorating Port Alberni Residential School victims

11-kilometre Esquimalt loop being run six times plus one final kilometre to commemorate 67 missing children

Sasha and Melissa Perron ahead of their run on May 4. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
A photo of Lance Caven from the early days of his firefighting career. (Courtesy City of Langford)

Assistant Fire Chief Lance Caven honoured in Langford

Procession sees hundreds of firefighters march to Belmont school

A photo of Lance Caven from the early days of his firefighting career. (Courtesy City of Langford)
A sign warns pedestrians outside RidgeView Place. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

‘It’s a big mess”: Displaced Langford residents struggling, insurance claims rejected

There’s support from the community, but some people are struggling without insurance payouts

A sign warns pedestrians outside RidgeView Place. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Langford Mayor Scott Goodmanson announces the province would be providing temporary accomodations for displaced RidgeView Place residents. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

‘Heated discussions’: Province to house evacuated Langford tenants as mayor says owners ‘absent’

‘They have been absent the last day and a half, and we put pressure on them,’ mayor says of building’s owner

Langford Mayor Scott Goodmanson announces the province would be providing temporary accomodations for displaced RidgeView Place residents. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
A judge dismisses Centurion’s claims that it was owed a duty of care by the engineers involved in constructing what is now called RidgeView Place. (Black Press Media file photo)

Owners of evacuated Langford building fail in lawsuit against city, engineers

Case is currently up on appeal, but the judge said risk had been managed in the signed contract

A judge dismisses Centurion’s claims that it was owed a duty of care by the engineers involved in constructing what is now called RidgeView Place. (Black Press Media file photo)
Morrell Andrews speaking at a press event announcing Bill S-12 in Ottawa on Wednesday (April 26). (Livestream)

Bill introduced in Senate to change publication ban rules on sexual assault cases

Several B.C. and Vancouver Island advocates have spent years campaigning for change

Morrell Andrews speaking at a press event announcing Bill S-12 in Ottawa on Wednesday (April 26). (Livestream)
Cots were set up in the hall at Gordon United Church on Goldstream Avenue Tuesday (April 25) night. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Cots set up in church to help evacuated Langford apartment building tenants

Emergency program springs into action in wake of latest RidgeView Place troubles

Cots were set up in the hall at Gordon United Church on Goldstream Avenue Tuesday (April 25) night. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Hans Frederiksen and Lynn Osborn said it's bittersweet seeing John Horgan's constituency office on Jacklin Road packed up. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Constituency assistants look back as Horgan’s Langford MLA office closes down

Hans Frederiksen has been working in the office for 18 years and says closing down is bittersweet

Hans Frederiksen and Lynn Osborn said it's bittersweet seeing John Horgan's constituency office on Jacklin Road packed up. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
RidgeView Place, then known as Danbrook One, under construction in February 2018. (Black Press Media file)

As evacuated Langford tenants scramble to find housing, who’s to blame for this?

Twice in a little more than three years the city has had to revoke the troubled high rise’s occupancy permit, but why?

RidgeView Place, then known as Danbrook One, under construction in February 2018. (Black Press Media file)
J-C Roberge is one of the residents in the building who has been left scrambling after they were told to evacuate their homes at 2770 Claude Rd. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Residents told to leave again after troubled Langford high rise deemed ‘unsafe’

RidgeView Place (formerly Danbrook One) has seen its occupancy permit revoked for the second time

J-C Roberge is one of the residents in the building who has been left scrambling after they were told to evacuate their homes at 2770 Claude Rd. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
The view from atop PKOLS (formerly Mt. Douglas Park). (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)

‘Toponymic revolution’: Indigenizing place names in Greater Victoria

University of Victoria historian John Lutz said he expects the recent momentum will continue

The view from atop PKOLS (formerly Mt. Douglas Park). (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)