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The severe weekend storm that wreaked havoc in southwestern sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ and Washington state, knocking out power for about a million people, is a sharp reminder that emergency preparedness isn’t about some remote possibility in the distant future.

A desperately sad campaign kicked off this month in Saanich. A group of mothers called for national action, after their children died taking the painkiller fentanyl.

A proposal to build a floating liquefied natural gas plant in Saanich Inlet has taken the surrounding communities by surprise. No word of the project was heard until the Malahat First Nation and Steelhead LNG Corp.

Victoria’s contribution to an affordable-housing project in Saanich could be an argument in favour of amalgamation — problems and issues aren’t confined by municipal boundaries, so let’s do away with those boundaries.

Although forests are still ablaze in many parts of the province, the 2015 fire season is apparently over for the Hawaii Mars water bomber. The 30-day contract between the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ government and the company that owns the giant aircraft has ended.

The first sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Transit buses equipped with automated announcing systems have hit the streets.

Does it take too long for a business to get approvals and permits from the District of Saanich? Does the approval process balance expediency with the need to ensure proper standards are followed? Those are the issues members of Saanich council should

Kudos to those wise and compassionate volunteers who are working to remove the feral rabbits from the median at the Helmcken/Trans-sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ interchange.

Don’t be a sucker. Few people are caught up in bank robberies, but sooner or later, almost everyone with a computer or a telephone is targeted by fraud artists.

You can’t make something better by making it worse, but that is what has happened with the Fair Elections Act, passed by the federal Conservatives last year.