The B.C. government is asking people to shell out more cash for park trips this summer — but patrons can expect to get less. New park user fees took effect April 1 for ...

Two years after Victoria’s Cormorant Street needle exchange closed, there is still no primary location for people who inject drugs to replace used needles. In 2008, ...

A group of gardeners is growing a thriving crop of controversy on campus, one plot at a time. At noon on Wednesday, March 24, organizers from the Food Not Lawns ...

March 20 wasn’t just a Friday. It was also the day that UVic celebrated the UN-declared International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Organized by ...

Get ready to visit the world of Avatar — for real. On Sunday, March 28, the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) is taking volunteers, community members, media and ...

Get ready to have your sustainability memory challenged. From March 19 to 20, the Environmental Studies Students’ Association (ESSA) will be hosting ...

Need a phone call to lean on? As of April 1, Vancouver Island’s six crisis lines will be shutting down after budget cuts by the Vancouver Island Health Authority ...

The UVic Sustainability Project (UVSP) is giving UVic students and community members a place to recycle things they might otherwise toss in the trash. Starting on ...

UVic’s community garden has been growing in the same place for close to 15 years. But as an agreement with the university for use of the space comes to an end, ...

March 10, 1959: Tibetans rise up against the oppression of Chinese military occupancy. His Holiness the Dalai Lama fled. He continues to lead his people in exile. ...

About 30 citizens and members of the Victoria Coalition Against Poverty greeted the Tuesday, March 2, provincial budget with a “death march” from Centennial Square to ...

The region’s newsprint collected for recycling will now have to travel a bit farther thanks to the closure of one of B.C.’s last paper recycling plants. Catalyst Paper ...

Potterheads, Canlit hounds and Orwellian-dystopia fans all have something in common — each has held a banned or challenged book in his or her hands. This week, ...

Propaganda, protest and appropriation took the forefront at “The Olympic Torch: Symbolism and Politics.” Presented by UVic Social Justice Studies, the panel began with ...