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A B.C.-based home recycling company offers up this cozy Oak Bay house for $125,000 delivered and installed. (Courtesy Nickel Bros.)

Oak Bay ‘Doll House’ up for grabs for $125,000 – delivery included

Nickel Bros. routinely recycles homes, moving them around the Pacific northwest

 

The In-den-tation fox den sculpture by Scott Gillies is the fan favourite in the Oak Bay Arts Alive sculpture walk this year. (Scott_gilz/Instagram)

Fox den captures people’s choice vote in Oak Bay Arts Alive sculpture walk

District seeks artists for 2024/2025 display on the theme Beyond the Surface

 

The Oak Bay Marina and Marina Dockside Eatery are pictured on a sunny day. (Photo by ER Kilpatrick)

Oak Bay 2nd on list of best places to live in Canada despite housing costs

The list was determined by safety, affordability, and quality of life

 

Hundreds filled Willows Park on Dec. 30, 2017 to remember Aubrey and Chloe Berry. (Black Press Media file photo) Dec. 30 memorial Aubrey and Chloe Berry Oak Bay children murdered by their father on Christmas Day 2017. (Keri Coles/News Staff)

Oak Bay remembers murdered sisters with flowers, balloons and snacks

Chloe, 4, and Aubrey, 6, were murdered by their father on Christmas Day 2017

Hundreds filled Willows Park on Dec. 30, 2017 to remember Aubrey and Chloe Berry. (Black Press Media file photo) Dec. 30 memorial Aubrey and Chloe Berry Oak Bay children murdered by their father on Christmas Day 2017. (Keri Coles/News Staff)
R.J. Forbes of Old Farm Market, left, and Geoff Martin of Slaters Meats hand off a full dinner to Sheana Jackson who plans to share it with friends. (Photo by Glen Butcher)

‘I cried’: Anonymous gift sets table for Saanich single mom to host dinner

Oak Bay contest winner means Christmas feast for several families

R.J. Forbes of Old Farm Market, left, and Geoff Martin of Slaters Meats hand off a full dinner to Sheana Jackson who plans to share it with friends. (Photo by Glen Butcher)
Soie Liao-Briere, who turns 17 on Dec. 30, is trained in assembly to help change lives through the Victoria Hand Project. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

Victoria Hand Project inspires teen to improve 15 more lives in Ukraine

Hand project provides prosthetic arms to amputees in need worldwide

Soie Liao-Briere, who turns 17 on Dec. 30, is trained in assembly to help change lives through the Victoria Hand Project. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
Left: Diane Buchanan Holland collects new and often handmade toques to hand out to those facing housing or other challenges in winter. Right: The tree one mom had planted on the shores of Bowker Creek in honour of her late son Brennan. (Diane Buchanan Holland/Facebook)

Mom brings new toques to Greater Victoria streets to honour her late son

Street nurse, shelters hand out gifted headware to local residents

Left: Diane Buchanan Holland collects new and often handmade toques to hand out to those facing housing or other challenges in winter. Right: The tree one mom had planted on the shores of Bowker Creek in honour of her late son Brennan. (Diane Buchanan Holland/Facebook)
While coho aren’t on the agenda yet, elementary students from the Oak Bay area release chum fry into Bowker Creek each spring. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

Volunteer stewards tracking tire toxins in Vancouver Island waterways

Volunteers part of Island-wide study of chemical presence and impacts

While coho aren’t on the agenda yet, elementary students from the Oak Bay area release chum fry into Bowker Creek each spring. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
FILE PHOTO, Kent Reporter

Oak Bay police bust driver travelling 100 km/hr in a 40 km zone

The vehicle was impounded and the driver was issued a fine

FILE PHOTO, Kent Reporter
Oak Bay police department electric EV car officer OBPD (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

Police nab same man twice for breaking into cars in Oak Bay

The 24-year-old was arrested both times and released with charges

Oak Bay police department electric EV car officer OBPD (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
Oak Bay is among the first 10 communities subject to the province’s Housing Supply Act, tasked with delivering 664 units in the next five years. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

‘Tough to do’: Oak Bay facing pressure to kickstart housing options

Infill housing strategy on hold as district embarks on provincial requirements

Oak Bay is among the first 10 communities subject to the province’s Housing Supply Act, tasked with delivering 664 units in the next five years. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
Lighted boats cruise by Willows Beach during the 2016 Sea of Lights. This year’s sailpast is Friday, Dec. 1. (Black Press Media file photo)

Total of 26 decked-out boats set to sail past Saanich, Oak Bay beaches

Royal Victoria Yacht Club lighted sail past starts Dec. 1 at 6:30 p.m.

Lighted boats cruise by Willows Beach during the 2016 Sea of Lights. This year’s sailpast is Friday, Dec. 1. (Black Press Media file photo)
A remarkably low chum salmon return at Goldstream River this year means no fertilized eggs for creek restoration programs across the south Island usually supported by the Goldstream Hatchery. (Black Press Media file photo)

Low Goldstream chum return a ‘disaster’ for hatchery programs, ecosystem

No babies for Oak Bay’s Bowker Creek salmon restoration project this year

A remarkably low chum salmon return at Goldstream River this year means no fertilized eggs for creek restoration programs across the south Island usually supported by the Goldstream Hatchery. (Black Press Media file photo)
Engel & Völkers Vancouver Island celebrates the win as 2022 Realtor Food Bank Challenge Champion. The friendly competition raised $10,749 and just under 2,000 pounds of food for the region’s food banks.(Oak Bay Village/Facebook)

Epic food fight for the greater good returns to Oak Bay Village

Realtors go head-to-head to raise funds, food alongside Rainbow Kitchen

Engel & Völkers Vancouver Island celebrates the win as 2022 Realtor Food Bank Challenge Champion. The friendly competition raised $10,749 and just under 2,000 pounds of food for the region’s food banks.(Oak Bay Village/Facebook)
Liam Pope-Lau, 14, outside legendary Carnegie Hall in New York where he took the stage to perform an act from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. (Photo by Naomi Pope)

‘So amazing’: Oak Bay teen takes on Shakespeare at prestigious Carnegie Hall

St. Michaels University School student earns international opportunity with spoken word competition

Liam Pope-Lau, 14, outside legendary Carnegie Hall in New York where he took the stage to perform an act from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. (Photo by Naomi Pope)
Eileen Greaves (right) with her daughter Stephanie at the Oak Bay cafe she’s run for the last 30 years. (Gerry Bell photo)

‘Heartbreaking’: Iconic Oak Bay cafe closing after 30 years as rent skyrockets

Owner knows most customers by their first name

Eileen Greaves (right) with her daughter Stephanie at the Oak Bay cafe she’s run for the last 30 years. (Gerry Bell photo)
Renowned Indigenous art historian and curator Dr. Heather Igloliorte is the inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria. (Courtesy UVic)

Feds fund $8M for first UVic chair of decolonial Indigenous art practices

Globally renowned Indigenous art historian and curator Heather Igloliorte serves inagural role

Renowned Indigenous art historian and curator Dr. Heather Igloliorte is the inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria. (Courtesy UVic)
Oak Bay worm farmer Sandra Birrell shows off a handful of the 10,000 worms that call Gilligan home. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

VIDEO: Oak Bay worm farmer gathers gourds to feed her brood all winter

Roughly 170 donated pumpkins put to good use making compost

Oak Bay worm farmer Sandra Birrell shows off a handful of the 10,000 worms that call Gilligan home. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
The sale price for the property at 305 Denison Rd. is $7.8 million. The house is 11,000 square feet on .82 acres with seven bedrooms and six bathrooms. (Photo from District of Oak Bay website)

‘Kingsmount’: 113-year-old Oak Bay mansion on sale for first time for $7.8M

Listing comes at same time as steep sales drop in Greater Victoria

The sale price for the property at 305 Denison Rd. is $7.8 million. The house is 11,000 square feet on .82 acres with seven bedrooms and six bathrooms. (Photo from District of Oak Bay website)
Oak Bay Mayor Kevin Murdoch and Oak Bay High principal Shawn Boulding are working together to support two high schools facing regular power outages due to the ongoing Russian invasion. (Courtesy District of Oak Bay)

Oak Bay leaders pitch campaign to keep Ukraine schools running

Duo targets $20,000 to buy generators for 2 high schools in Ukraine

Oak Bay Mayor Kevin Murdoch and Oak Bay High principal Shawn Boulding are working together to support two high schools facing regular power outages due to the ongoing Russian invasion. (Courtesy District of Oak Bay)