Today's Print Edition

for Thursday, February 17th

 

Jump To

 
 

News

 

Content Query »

Rodolfo, meet Rodolfo. Luc Robert, left, has fallen ill and is being replaced temporarily by Gerard Powers.

Tenor flies in to substitute for ailing lead

A tenor is flying to Victoria from New York City today to sing the lead role in Pacific Opera Victoria's

 
A new study says there has been a "substantial" increase in the intensity of heavy-precipitation events -- storms that drop more than 100 millimetres of precipitation in 24 hours -- over large parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Here are five examples of those extreme storms in our region since 2003 -- including a heavy April snowstorm in Nanaimo -- that triggered floods and washouts.

UVic sleuths detect human hand in storms

University of Victoria climate sleuths have detected, for the first time, a human hand in the increasing fury of intense storms battering the Northern Hemisphere.

 

timescolonist.com/extras

WEB EXTRA: Border-hopping sage grouse get boost from the south for habitat protection

 

Cimoli the first big-league batter on the West Coast

Gino Cimoli, a Dodger outfielder in Brooklyn and Los Angeles who was the first major league batter on the West Coast when the Dodgers and Giants moved to California in 1958, has died. He was 81.

 
 

Archives

 
 

Jump To

 
 

Capital & Van. Isl.

Back To Top

 
 

Jump To

 
 

Comment

Back To Top

 
 

Jump To

 
 

Letters

Back To Top

 
 

Jump To

 
 

Business

Back To Top

 
 

Jump To

 
 

Life

Back To Top

 
 

Jump To

 
 

Go!

Back To Top

 
 

Jump To

 
 

Sports

Back To Top

 
 

Subscribe To Print Edition

First Name
 
 
E-mail
 
Last Name
 
 
Re-enter E-mail
 
 
Print Subscribe
 
 
 
 

Subscriber Service »

 
 
 
 

Newspaper Flyers & Ads »

 
 
 

Contests »

 
 
Pinpoint your exact traveller personality! »
 
Times Colonist Book Drive dates and details (PDF) »
 
 
  Inside Times Colonist