With news that the death of local singer, poet, and artist Tempest Grace Gale has been ruled a homicide some Hornby Island residents now believe the “live-and-let-live” culture of Hornby Island may have changed forever.

Times Colonist photographer Debra Brash and Kevin Rothbauer of the Cowichan Valley Citizen capture the flooding in photos

Residents of Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island who were forced out of their homes early Friday by flooding were allowed to return Saturday, but it will likely be weeks before they can hope to get any money to cover the damage.

A mix of the week's best news features that you may not have noticed.

Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford and North Vancouver's Bryn Parry will have to put their PGA Tour dreams on hold for another year.

It was a frantic, unplanned home delivery but thanks to the help of a family friend Maple Ridge newborn Nathan Boey rushed into the world like a silent whisper.

The ex-girlfriend of a Colwood man allegedly murdered by a former Highlands councillor and his two sons screamed hysterically as she begged someone to help him, a key Crown witness testified yesterday in B.C. Supreme Court.

The B.C. government is investigating a major security breach after police discovered the personal records of 1,400 income-assistance clients in the home of a government employee, the Times Colonist has learned.

No one has claimed the property of 48-year-old Jeff Hughes, who was shot and killed by police outside his Selby Street apartment in Nanaimo on Oct. 23.

Tyler Walton went missing Nov. 9 and RCMP have no leads

A 15 year-old girl was sexually assaulted near the Port Coquitlam bus loop at about 1 a.m. Saturday morning, according to RCMP.

Sun Digital Life reporter Gillian Shaw is live-blogging from the TEDx event at Electronic Arts in Burnaby.

The City of Vancouver has approved a new tree-protection bylaw that sets fines of $500 to $10,000 for the unlawful removal of trees, allows for replacement fruit and nut trees, and improves enforcement capabilities.

When the New Democrats went looking for the reasons behind the B.C. Liberal decision to axe Tourism BC, they did not know what they would find.

Given the amount of time teenagers spend texting on their cell-phones, e-mailing, Twittering, Facebooking -- not to mention actually talking -- the prospect of giving it all up for 24 hours must be daunting.

B.C. has more high-risk gang members awaiting trial than high-security court rooms in which to prosecute them.

Whenever someone frets about the erosion of personal freedoms in our modern society, such as in the steady proliferation of surveillance cameras in public places, the stock answer, which is one I read all too often in my e-mail, is:

A push by TransLink to beef up security around public transit stations has led to a drop in the number of "fare-dodgers" and a rise in arrests of criminals in possession of drugs or weapons.

Walk into Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond's office in Victoria and, after the Barack Obama poster on the door, the first thing you'll see is a small wooden conference table proudly decorated with all the artifacts of parenthood.

Heavy flooding caused by relentless rain and high tides forced hundreds of people Friday to flee their homes in the Cowichan Valley.