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Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026

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The Big One · Sport & city hall

Langford is using hotel-tax revenue to land the BCHL All-Star Weekend

The two-day event comes to the Q Centre in January. The city says the investment should bring visitors; its announcement does not say what it is paying.

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An ice hockey puck on the ice. Photo: Santeri Viinamäki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and converted to WebP.

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Getting around

View Royal's new speed limits are more specific than '30 everywhere'

Residential-classed roads generally move to 30 km/h. Part of Island Highway and collector roads around Eagle View Elementary move to 40.

2 min
Metchosin

Metchosin won $7M for its fire hall. Its own estimate puts the project near $21.4M

The grant is substantial. The district's early estimate still leaves a gap of roughly $14.4 million, before the design, approvals and financing are settled.

2 min
Langford council

Langford adopted two transportation blueprints. The price tags are now on paper

Council removed a contested Hoffman Avenue road link. The adopted plans also map more than $60 million in road work and more than $74 million in active-transportation projects.

3 min
Langford

Langford's Glen Lake build is the first move in a 122-space childcare shuffle

The $10.6-million arts and childcare centre is meant to free the Carlow Road site for 73 more childcare spaces and Foundry West Shore.

2 min
Trail guide

Before you ride the Goose: choose the distance, then check the detours

The trail runs 55 kilometres from Victoria to Sooke. A good ride starts with a turnaround point and ends with a plan for getting home.

2 min
Civic guide

How to follow a council decision in Langford or Colwood

Start with the agenda, not the livestream. Name the item when you write, meet the speaking deadline, and return for the motion that actually passed.

3 min
Service guide

Witty's Lagoon, Tower Point or East Sooke? Pick the outing before the parking lot

One route ends at a beach after a moderate forest trail. One is flat and short. One opens into a rugged coastal park where the return is part of the hike.

2 min
Civic brief

Why the Province rejected three commercial-use applications beside East Sooke park

The applications dated to 2022 and crossed two official trails. The August decision ends this proposal, not every future land-use question around the park.

2 min
Indigenous land talks

What the Te'mexw treaty talks could mean for Hatley Park and the West Shore

Five Nations are negotiating five separate modern treaties. Here is what is proposed, what is not, and what still has to happen.

4 min

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