On August 2, 1980,
The Daily Colonist newspaper front page proclaimed "Merger pains lead to birth of new daily". Victoria Press Ltd., which produced both the
Daily Colonist and the
Victoria Times, could no longer sustain both competing newspapers without making significant financial cuts, Vice-President Colin McCullough wrote in a statement. In 1983, the newspaper stopped printing both a morning and afternoon edition and moved to daily morning publication. The Victoria Press Building remained the headquarters of the
Times Colonist after the 1980 merger and up until the building's sale in 2017. The Victoria Heritage Society has deemed the building architecturally notable for its "characteristics of the Late Modern style including its pre-cast concrete panels, exposed aggregate stucco cladding [...] and its full-height central entryway with rounded pre-cast concrete walls." On October 18, 2011, the
Postmedia Network announced it would sell the
Times Colonist,
Nanaimo Daily News and
Alberni Valley Times, as well as 20 weekly and bi-weekly community papers, to
Glacier Media for $86.5 million. In 2017, the Victoria Press Building was sold to Merchant House Capital. Since October 1, 2018, the newspaper has been printed by
Black Press in
Ladysmith. The newspaper offices were moved in 2020 to Upper Harbour Place, a mixed-used residential and office building on Tyee Road in
Victoria West. In June 2019, it was announced the first 122 years of the
British Colonist (later, the
Daily Colonist) would be available online, with free access, through the efforts of the
Times Colonist, the
University of Victoria and other funding partners. The digitized newspaper collection is reported to be one of the most popular database on the university's website. The newspaper will not be returning to the building as a tenant when it reopens. == Circulation ==