Joy Gallant was pleasantly surprised by the waves of emotion that swept through her at the sudden appearance of a tall yellow flame cutting through the pounding music of the Olympic torch relay event in Charlottetown Saturday night.

The owner of a Vancouver tattoo parlour suspects a bid to clean up the city for the Olympic Games is behind a visit he received from city inspectors about a sign outside his shop that features a bare-breasted woman.

Two women were hospitalized in separate attacks in Metro Vancouver overnight.

A man’s body was found in a ditch in Abbotsford Saturday afternoon, but police are unsure whether the death is suspicious.

Residents in Duncan returned to their homes Saturday morning to survey the damage and begin cleaning up after floodwaters forced hundreds to flee.

A resident of a Calgary apartment complex risked serious injury — and possibly death — Saturday morning when he picked up and tossed away two explosives that had been placed outside his suite only moments before they blew up.

A drunk driving teen hit and seriously hurt a woman walking down Sooke Road last night, say West Shore RCMP.

Police in Maple Ridge were investigating an unusual death Friday night.

Police are puzzled by the unexplained disappearance of a young Williams Lake man nearly two weeks ago.

From the merely unpleasant to the borderline criminal, ugly buildings somehow manage to pop up even in the prettiest cities. VirtualTourist.com has released its second annual list of the "World's Top 10 Ugly Buildings," as decided by its members and editors.

Emergency crews ran pumps through the night and into the early morning Saturday in an effort to combat massive flooding that had prompted the communities of North Cowichan and Duncan on Vancouver Island to declare a state of emergency.

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.

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.

Heavy flooding caused by relentless rain and high tides have forced hundreds of people to flee their homes in the Cowichan Valley. Early Friday a state of emergency was declared for North Cowichan, Duncan and Cowichan Tribes land after residents awoke to rapidly rising waters.

Heavy flooding hit the Cowichan Valley this morning, leading to evacuation notices affecting hundreds of residents and the declaration of a state of emergency by the municipalities of Duncan and North Cowichan and the Cowichan Tribes.

West Shore RCMP are trying to figure out how a man in Langford ended up with his face slashed on Wednesday night.

Olympic torchbearer Lena Masters couldn’t help but have a teary moment while running the flame through Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley Friday afternoon, but a far simpler and more dramatic sentiment was running through her mind.

Police have released composite drawings of two men believed to be involved in a bear-spray incident in Chilliwack earlier this month.

A Surrey RCMP officer has been charged with assault in connection with an on-duty incident.

An autopsy has been completed on 25-year-old Tempest Grace Gale of Hornby Island and police say they are treating her death as a homicide. Police say foul play is suspected but details on the cause of death will not be released at this time.