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The 鈥淗ey, let鈥檚 put on a show!鈥� atmosphere at the Roxy late one hot, sunny afternoon last week was fabulously fitting when you consider the title of the work-in-progress being tweaked inside.

The 2014 World Cup soccer final is today in Rio. What鈥檚 that got to do with the 20th-anniversary celebrations of the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games, to take place Aug.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 17, 1937. A gloomy fire is burning in my heart this morning, a sullen fire that may never break into flame. It unsettles me.

The town named after him has disappeared, his name on the burial records was misread and his grave site was nearly lost as a result. But the memory of Peter Leech and the formation of Leechtown, near Sooke, will be marked today at Ross Bay Cemetery.

A wealthy West Coast madam known from San Francisco to Victoria at the turn of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was strong, beautiful and a force to be reckoned with.

On Monday, a group of long-distance cyclists from as far away as Japan will pedal 1,200 kilometres 鈥� from Victoria to Port Hardy and back 鈥� in under 90 hours in the VanIsle 1200, a cycling event that tests the limits of physical and mental endurance.

Cowichan Valley Regional District directors voted unanimously to support a petition to be presented in the House of Commons to stop boats from dumping sewage into Saanich Inlet.

Historical images from Greater Victoria and Vancouver Island

A dramatic increase in the number of hip-fracture surgeries done within 48 hours at Royal Jubilee Hospital is decreasing complications, saving money and maybe saving lives.