Sooke News

Preparations are underway for the Tall Tree Festival taking place June 28-30 at Brown's Mountain in Port Renfrew.

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When Astrid Koenig received an unsolicited call offering to significantly reduce the interest on her credit card, an alert Koenig patiently sat through and listened.

The bottle return lock-up had been broken into. Video surveillance shows a dark or black car with a make similar to a Chevrolet Cavalier leaving the lot, heading towards Sooke.

Getting ready to start building the new JdFEA services building off Otter Point Road are, left to right, Doran Musgrove, CRD architect; Chard Bryden, contractor for Verity Developments Ltd., CRD Regional Director Mike Hicks, with shovel; and Robert Gutierrez, CRD Chief Building Inspector and project manager.

Apple has unveiled its biggest update since the iPhone's launch in 2007, demonstrating the new software at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday.

While the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to ensure that the stories of the thousands of young children forced to attend Indian Residential Schools are not lost to history, one artist is on a mission to ensure that the inanimate remnants of the sad legacy live on as well.

"Where Chefs Eat" reveals the favourite eateries of the world's top chefs when they hang up their hats and are out of the kitchen.

When Saskatoon tourists thought they saw a white "spirit bear" on a trail in East Sooke Park, the couple reasoned that bears must just be white out west.

Three Prince Rupert cancer survivors will once again push themselves to their limits this summer, participating in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, a two-day cycling event that has individuals ride from Surrey to Seattle.

Navi Bhatti grew up in the northern BC town of Houston, a close-knit community where the teachers, students and their families all learned, worked and played together.

Honouring and paying respect to the loggers who helped build this province is one of the aims of the musical revue, Good Timber.

It's been two years since there's been a bluegrass festival in Sooke and there are many fans who have missed the yearly event usually held mid-June.

Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs on Friday, killing a mother and baby and crumbling cars and tractor-trailers along a major interstate... Province sports editor Jonathan McDonald takes a crack at some alternatives to the standard names being bandied about as the NHL looks at realignment of its six ... (more)

On May 17, on the 7000 block of Maple Park Terrace, Sooke RCMP supported by the Island District Emergency Response Team executed a search warrant.

For our final concert of the season, the Sooke Folk Music Society is presenting Tower of Song, a creative tribute to the music of Leonard Cohen, this Saturday, June 1, at Holy Trinity Anglican Church.

If the Sooke Official Community Plan survey results say anything, it is that Sooke is a good place to live.

Candice Suchocki Weir uses bees wax from Tugwell Creek Honey Farm & Meadery in her soapmaking.

Horgan said he is pleased to have been successful and even with a Liberal majority he will continue to do his best.

When the group's president, Mandy Truman, looks out across the field behind the park's tired old jungle gym she sees a space that will have modern play equipment and paved paths to make it wheelchair accessible and up to current safety standards.