Police are warning people to lock their doors after an elderly woman was assaulted in her Qualicum Beach home early Friday.

British Columbia has legislated its striking paramedics back to work. After an all-night session at the provincial legislature, Bill 21 was passed, officially ending a strike that began in April.

Apart from the fact the boss and the board are paid too much, the boss shouldn't be on the board, the board is too big, the regulator doesn't have enough oversight power and there's little accountability, B.C. Ferries is working just fine.

Faced with the loss of hundreds of photos from the last months of his wife's life, a Nanaimo man is begging the person who stole his camera to return it.

The B.C. legislature sat last night and debate could continue into the weekend on back-to-work legislation for striking ambulance paramedics. The Opposition NDP has called the legislation draconian, but Liberals have said it's necessary given the H1N1 pandemic and the approaching holiday season.

Went to my niece's convocation at Royal Roads University yesterday. (Congratulations Cathy!)

The 2008 civic election brought a recognizable change to Nanaimo's city council as voters gave an overwhelmingly strong mandate to a new mayor and put their faith in three new politicians.

Mounties are asking for the public's help tracking down a man who is the prime suspect in sexual assaults in two B.C. communities.

West Shore RCMP want to talk to anybody who may have witnessed an accident early Friday morning on Lindholm Road. At about 8 a.m., officers received information that a cyclist had been forced off the road by a passing motorist. The cyclist went over a cement barrier and rolled down a rocky hillside.

RCMP officers are at the scene of a serious two-car accident on Highway 1 north at Lantzville Road. The highway was closed and no information was available, said an RCMP dispatcher.

NEW YORK - Wanted: outgoing and enthusiastic applicants to work as restroom ambassadors in central New York location. Good pay.

For a few years, it seemed that Prince Charles was making Victoria his second home. He was here three times in less than five years. On his first visit, back in 1979, the heir to the throne set our hearts a-flutter.

VICTORIA - TransLink is plagued by "significant operational issues" and has not done enough to manage its finances, B.C. comptroller-general Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland wrote in a report released Friday.

A pedestrian was struck by a car and killed Thursday evening as the person crossed a dark stretch of Mount Newton Cross Road in the pounding rain.

B.C.’s comptroller general also says in a new report that it’s too easy for officials to earn bonuses.

VANCOUVER - The owners of the Sleep Country chain of stores should sleep easier after a B.C. Supreme Court judge dismissed allegations that the company conspired with a mattress supplier to put a competitor out of business.

- They land in Victoria mid-afternoon -- - 4 p.m.: Welcoming ceremony at legislature

Mayor Christopher Causton triggered the first dynamite blast yesterday on the largest construction project in Oak Bay history.

OTTAWA - Canada unexpectedly lost 43,200 jobs in October, Statistics Canada said Friday, as the economy struggled to exit the first recession since the early 1990s.

A 38-year-old Ucluelet woman died yesterday after her SUV was struck head-on by a tractor-trailer that slid from the northbound to the southbound lane on the highway between Tofino and Ucluelet.