Lochside Drive News Today

Time to complete spring projects that help to smooth the passage to summer in the garden

Saanich council moved forward 73 units of new housing Monday night, including a 50-unit rental building on Glasgow Avenue.

A proposed development would bring 49 apartment and 48 townhouse units on the site of what’s currently the Cedarwood Inn and Suites in Sidney.

A disused wastewater plant at West Lakes will become a housing precinct with four-storey buildings and hundreds of new homes, after the state government approved a developer’s rezoning bid.

Some of Saanich’s busier residential streets could have 30 km/h speed limits by the spring, after council voted to expand its speed-reduction program.

The bounty from Royal Roads University’s food garden this year was more than double the output from 2022.

Sidney/North Saanich RCMP are requesting the public’s help in locating a stolen fishing boat.

Mounties are asking the public to be on the lookout for a fishing boat that was reported stolen from North Saanich. The Sidney/North Saanich RCMP say the five-and-a-half-metre vessel was taken from a mooring pin near the 8600-block of Lochside Drive on Saturday.

Be prepared for traffic delays Aug. 19 as 2,450 cyclists take part in Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria, the city’s largest one-day cycling event.

Panama Flats visitor a first for longtime Oak Bay birder and educator