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The Canadian and American coast guards conducted a joint, two-day oil-spill drill last week to test the emergency response to an accident in the waters between sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ and Washington state.

The Veselka Ukrainian Dancers of Victoria came home with honours in three competition categories at this year’s sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Ukrainian Cultural Festival, held this month in Mission.

This upcoming month is a big one for the Victoria Foundation, and we’re very excited about it. First, it marks the opening of our applications for Community Grants for 2019.

The M’akola Housing Society is working with all 10 First Nations in Greater Victoria to host the Change Makers’ Gathering, an event to launch National Indigenous Peoples Week, June 17 at the Bear Mountain Resort.

A Woman in Between: Searching for Dr. Victoria Chung By John Price with Ningping Yu The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia and The Initiative for Student Research and Teaching in Chinese Canadian Studies, 172 pp., $30.

Bee kind, bee on the lookout for a swarm of bees and join Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary for Bee Day, May 26 at the sanctuary. Swarms of honey bees usually occur during the months of April to August.

In April 1977, Port Alberni was shaken by the abduction and murder of 12-year-old Carolyn Lee as she walked home from dance class. A massive manhunt failed to turn up enough evidence to support an arrest, and the case went cold.

Fundraising is underway to mount winter scientific expeditions in the north Pacific Ocean in 2020 and 2021 to learn more about the lives of millions of salmon, as climate change alters the ecosystem and fisheries managers puzzle over why some stocks

One crew in the upcoming Swiftsure International Yacht Race will be changing diapers between hauling down sails and handling the wheel.

The spectacular fire in downtown Victoria last week destroyed more than the former Plaza Hotel and Monty’s strip club. It destroyed nearly a century of history, memory and exciting times.