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  VICTORIA -- After a lengthy closure amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre in downtown Victoria will reopen to the public starting Feb. 1. Anyone looking to use the facility’s pool or fitness facility must register online or by phone before arriving due to COVID-19. Registration for classes, leisure swims, lane swimming and fitness programs will open on Jan. 28 at 9 a.m. The City of Victoria says that registration will help staff at the recreation centre manag...

Eby could not elaborate on any specific hotels or buildings being considered. An estimated 190 people are sheltering in Victoria parks but the province is preparing to house “significantly” more than that to ensure no one is left behind, Eby said. B.C. Housing is working with the City of Victoria to identify appropriate supportive housing sites. Eby said any new supportive housing facilities should not be in the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood, which is already home to several such faciliti...

The provincial government is looking to buy or lease another hotel or vacant residential building in Greater Victoria to house hundreds of people without homes before the end of March, says B.C.’s . . .

Mossy rocks at Riwaka Resurgence. This is where the Riuwaka River emerges from its slow, pitch-dark passage through Tākaka Hill, a process that removes all impurities from the water. The deep pool where the water rises into the light is not only crystal clear, but glows a beautiful blue in the dappled sunlight that shafts through the surrounding fern-filled beech forest. The river-smoothed boulders surrounding the pools of emerald water are draped in lime-green moss that makes the kind of sh...

Ricky Burkett Ricky Alan Burkett, age 63, of River Falls WI, died on December 25, 2020 of pancreatic cancer at the River Falls Area Hospital, while also under the care of Allina Hospice. Born September 20, 1957 to Gene and Roberta aka ‘Bert’ (Crisp) Burkett. United in marriage to Denise Ann Paul on July 15, 1978 by a justice of the peace in the backyard of Denise’s cousin in Ceres, California. Ricky will be remembered by many for his stories of his California upbringing, spending week...

Darrin Murphy, who has been living in a tent in the park with his partner since July, said every­thing inside their tent is wet and covered in mould. “I don’t know what warmth is anymore,” he said. Murphy said in low-lying areas of the park, closer to Crystal Pool, three to four inches of water seeped into his neighbours’ tents. On Wednesday morning, he was preparing to move to the parking lot and into a dry tent. “It will be nice to get out of this wet, mouldy tent.” People living...

Australian Traveller The best swimming spots on Norfolk Island 23 December 2020 . BY Eliza Sholly We uncover the best swimming spots along the 32-kilometre coastline of Norfolk Island. Norfolk Island remains one of Australia’s lesser-known island gems. Having quietly dodged the march of mass tourism, the island still boasts an array of uncrowded, pristine swimming spots and a mild sub-tropical climate to enjoy them in.   Here, our picks of the best places for a cooling dip on Norfolk Isl...

But when it came to a big, fat juicy overrun scandal that cried out for attention, they just never quite got around to it. The Auditor General for Local Government on Friday suspended what would have been its biggest and potentially most exciting project ever — the audit of the Johnson Street Bridge. It was due to an unavoidable combination of circumstances. The office itself was targeted by the NDP government for shutdown just weeks after it took on the project, back in February. It was c...