Rental apartments and modern commercial space will replace the aging Caption Building and its adjacent surface parking lot.

Aragon Properties has unveiled plans to develop over 130 townhomes and single-family residences north of Sooke's town centre on Church Road at Wadams Way.

The provincial government will soon allow strata councils to increase fines for operators of unlicensed short-term vacation rentals to $1,000 per day from $200 per week.