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Artist submissions for the Sooke Fine Arts Show is June 1. Three jurors are expected to judge more than 300 art pieces from portraits to woodworks. (File - Sooke News Mirror)

Deadline approaching for Sooke Fine Arts Show

Artists must submit work by June 1

Artist submissions for the Sooke Fine Arts Show is June 1. Three jurors are expected to judge more than 300 art pieces from portraits to woodworks. (File - Sooke News Mirror)
Brennan Smith won the Westcoast Sooke 10K on Sunday crossing the finish line at 32:17 minutes. Jennifer Erickson was the top woman with a time of 37:23. (Contributed photo)

Speedfarm Running Club dominates Westcoast Sooke 10K

Oak Bay runners take first in men and women divisions

Brennan Smith won the Westcoast Sooke 10K on Sunday crossing the finish line at 32:17 minutes. Jennifer Erickson was the top woman with a time of 37:23. (Contributed photo)
Drew Dell started an online fundraiser for the family of a Sooke teen Nevaeh Wittneben died in a Feb. 26 car crash in Cobble Hill. (GoFundMe)

Vancouver Island teen killed in crash ‘was loved by everyone she met’

Sooke’s Nevaeh Wittneben, 16, died in a Trans-Canada Highway crash Sunday in Cobble Hill

Drew Dell started an online fundraiser for the family of a Sooke teen Nevaeh Wittneben died in a Feb. 26 car crash in Cobble Hill. (GoFundMe)
Rogers Communications says cellphone service between Sooke and Port Renfrew will be up and running by April 1. (Shutterstock.com)

Vancouver Island’s south coast cell phone gap should be filled by April

Sooke to Port Renfrew ‘dead zone’ along a 70-kilometre section of Highway 14 to be eliminated

Rogers Communications says cellphone service between Sooke and Port Renfrew will be up and running by April 1. (Shutterstock.com)
A seal kiss from mom to pup on Discovery Island. (File photo by Nick Wemyss)

Pair of Vancouver Island provincial parks on the table during treaty negotiations

Sooke Mountain, Discovery Island provincial parks now being considered for inclusion

A seal kiss from mom to pup on Discovery Island. (File photo by Nick Wemyss)
McDevitt was spotted headed to the trails near Sooke Potholes via CCTV footage which police found on Dec. 11. (Courtesy of Sooke RCMP)

Sooke RCMP taking over search for missing woman who never made Victoria flight

CCTV footage shows McDevitt heading to the trails at Sooke Potholes

McDevitt was spotted headed to the trails near Sooke Potholes via CCTV footage which police found on Dec. 11. (Courtesy of Sooke RCMP)
This orca-themed Sooke listing is making a splash on social media. (Realtor.ca)

A whale of a good time: Orca-themed home hits the market in Greater Victoria

Whale-themed listing making a splash on social media

This orca-themed Sooke listing is making a splash on social media. (Realtor.ca)
Habs and Leafs fans are facing off online thanks to two particular items on the menu at 17 Mile House Pub. (@Angeline19781 - Twitter)

Battle for the soul of Canada’s game playing out on B.C. pub’s poutine menu

Habs fans faceoff against Leafs Nation after jab on Vancouver Island menu ignites hockey Twitter

Habs and Leafs fans are facing off online thanks to two particular items on the menu at 17 Mile House Pub. (@Angeline19781 - Twitter)
A Mystic Beach sunset. The beach was named one of the top 50 beaches in the world by an international travel website. (Black Press Media file photo)

B.C. beach named one of the best in the world

Mystic Beach named on top 50 list by bigseventravel.com

A Mystic Beach sunset. The beach was named one of the top 50 beaches in the world by an international travel website. (Black Press Media file photo)
Sooke RCMP ask anyone with information about a youth stabbed April 14 to call them. (Black Press Media file photo)

Witnesses give first aid to youth significantly hurt in Vancouver Island trail stabbing

Sooke RCMP take second youth into custody, say no further risk to the public

Sooke RCMP ask anyone with information about a youth stabbed April 14 to call them. (Black Press Media file photo)
Crews responded to a fire in East Sooke Wednesday morning, around 7:30 a.m. (Kevin Laird - Sooke News Mirror)

One person dead after workshop fire on south Vancouver Island

Crews responded to the fire in East Sooke early Wednesday morning

Crews responded to a fire in East Sooke Wednesday morning, around 7:30 a.m. (Kevin Laird - Sooke News Mirror)
The Sooke Fine Art Show in 2020. The last in-person show in 2019 attracted more than 9,000 people, while online shows in the last two years saw more than 10,000 tune-in. (Courtesy Sooke Fine Art Show)

Island artists urged to apply for a place in the return of Sooke Fine Arts Show

Applications will be judged for a place in July art show

The Sooke Fine Art Show in 2020. The last in-person show in 2019 attracted more than 9,000 people, while online shows in the last two years saw more than 10,000 tune-in. (Courtesy Sooke Fine Art Show)
The new Sooke branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library was set to have a grand opening celebration this Saturday (March 26), but strike actions by librarians around the system have postponed the event. (Facebook/VI Regional Library Sooke)

Grand opening of new Sooke library postponed as rotating strikes impact VIRL system

Unionized librarians demanding higher wages, better working conditions

The new Sooke branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library was set to have a grand opening celebration this Saturday (March 26), but strike actions by librarians around the system have postponed the event. (Facebook/VI Regional Library Sooke)
Crab fishing is a popular activity on the Sooke waterfront. (File - Sooke News Mirror)

Woman, 81, drowns while crabbing near Sooke

Woman unresponsive when pulled from water

Crab fishing is a popular activity on the Sooke waterfront. (File - Sooke News Mirror)
A structure on Otter Point Road in Sooke is engulfed in flames early Wednesday morning. (Brenda Jordison/Facebook)

Firefighter injured as suspicious fire erupts in Sooke building set for demolition

Fire broke out Oct. 13 in old Mulligan’s Bar and Grill building

A structure on Otter Point Road in Sooke is engulfed in flames early Wednesday morning. (Brenda Jordison/Facebook)
A serious car crash closed a section of Sooke Road at Woodlands Road early Tuesday morning. (Black Press Media file photo)

UPDATE: 7-year-old killed in Sept. 7 Sooke crash that hospitalized 4 others

Car collided with a tree near intersection of Sooke and Woodlands roads early Tuesday morning

A serious car crash closed a section of Sooke Road at Woodlands Road early Tuesday morning. (Black Press Media file photo)
A Sooke man died Tuesday afternoon after his car left the roadway in 7500-block of West Coast Road around 1:30 p.m. and hit a tree. (Black Press Media file photo)

Sooke man dies when car slams into tree

The man’s SUV left the roadway and struck a tree

A Sooke man died Tuesday afternoon after his car left the roadway in 7500-block of West Coast Road around 1:30 p.m. and hit a tree. (Black Press Media file photo)
A vehicle was driven into a T’Souke businesses early Wednesday morning. (Sooke News Mirror photo)

UPDATED: One in custody after truck intentionally driven into Island PetroCan

Early morning Sooke crash in attempt to steal ATM also affected adjoining Timmy’s

A vehicle was driven into a T’Souke businesses early Wednesday morning. (Sooke News Mirror photo)
John Horgan has been re-elected the MLA for Langford-Juan de Fuca. (File-Black Press)

Horgan trounces challengers to be re-elected in his Vancouver Island riding

MLA has represented constituency of Langford-Juan de Fuca and its predecessors since 2005

John Horgan has been re-elected the MLA for Langford-Juan de Fuca. (File-Black Press)
Owner Paul Pudwell caught a sight of Tl’uk, the rare white killer whale off Sooke waters in the Juan de Fuca Strait on Tuesday, Aug. 26. (Facebook/Sooke Coastal Explorations)

Rare white orca spotted off Vancouver Island two weeks after hunting in Alaska

Tl’uk, whose Coast Salish name means Moon, is back in B.C. waters

Owner Paul Pudwell caught a sight of Tl’uk, the rare white killer whale off Sooke waters in the Juan de Fuca Strait on Tuesday, Aug. 26. (Facebook/Sooke Coastal Explorations)