Victoria city staff are recommending council declining a rezoning application tied to a proposed 35-storey residential high-rise in the downtown core.

About 31,000 square feet of commercial space is planned on the outer parts of downtown Victoria, following the approval of a new development at the Monday City Council meeting. Headwaters Development ...

The Victoria City Council voted in favor of one of the city’s larger developments in recent memory at its Monday meeting. The development, known in planning documents as Victoria South, will bring 278 ...

The Victoria City Council will meet Tuesday evening for its regularly scheduled meeting, beginning with a public hearing on the proposed creation of a stormwater drainage utility and drainage utility ...

There’s a phrase you’re guaranteed to hear repeatedly if you ask residents about the kind of people who live here: Everyone is either “newly wed or nearly dead.” People say it with a chuckle, or ...

Victoria City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to move forward on an ordinance prohibiting the feeding of feral animals on public property, following its second reading. City Attorney Allison Lacey ...

The city of Victoria has hired Dana Hardie as city manager. “I am very happy with the dedication and efforts of all those involved in the process of selecting Dana as our next city manager. I am ...

Victoria’s new city hall will stay downtown. It will fill the empty lot between the Post Office and the Johnson residence on Victoria Drive. Unlike the other options offered, it will maintain the city ...

The City of Victoria will celebrate the appointment of the city’s newest poets laureate with a reading by the two local poets at a city council meeting at Victoria City Hall on Thursday. Selected by a ...

Victoria’s mayor is challenging the city’s neighbouring municipalities to “start doing your part” to shelter the region’s homeless. On Thursday, Victoria city council heard from staff that some other ...

Victoria has a new pair of literary ambassadors: Kyeren Regehr and Shauntelle Dick-Charleson have been named the City of Victoria’s new poet laureate and youth poet laureate, respectively. Regehr, an ...