Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds from SE to SSE at 11 mph (17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 43 °F (6.1 °C). Cloudy with a high of 48 °F (8.9 °C) and a 73% chance ...

Farming subsidies have been halted by the Government in a fresh blow to rural communities. The main replacement to the EU-era subsidies scheme was paused to new applications without warning on ...

Proposal for two, four-storey buildings in Central Saanich. On Monday night, Central Saanich council voted in favour of giving third reading to a zoning amendment, at the site of a proposed ...

Protecting Saanich's Garry oak ecosystem is a primary concern for the district's biodiversity strategy.Jake Romphf/Saanich News Preserving existing trees is one of the simplest, cheapest, and most ...

A Saanich police officer died Wednesday, March 5 after suffering a medical emergency while on duty. "It's with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of one of our officers," Saanich PD Chief Dean ...

Its owners say they would lose sunlight, privacy and the rural ... map from neighbourhood residential to multi-unit residential. Many spoke against the project, including residents of North ...

It’s got no sidewalks, no streetlights, but somehow the spotlight has found the east end of Hovey Road in Central Saanich. “This is…a rural dead end road,” says Sharon Glynn. Glynn is part ...

The 2021 Rural Urban Classification (RUC) is a statistical classification which provides a consistent and standardised method for categorising geographies as either rural or urban, based on: address ...

Robert Thorpe is a Newsweek reporter based in Massachusetts. His focus is reporting on personal finance topics, including banking, Social Security, investing and more. Robert joined Newsweek in ...

“If all these are constructed the shire will host approximately 700 turbines generating around three gigawatts of electricity (and) will cover approximately 12 per cent of Moyne Shire’s rural ...