On Vancouver Island's west coast, the competition to find treasures on the beach is as fierce as the weather that drives them ashore.

A Langford man and his parents are being sued by the city over a spree of graffiti, in what may be the first time in Canada a municipality has sued to recover graffiti damages.

Before the writ had dropped signalling the start of the 40th federal general election today, Vancouver Island candidates had their campaign signs, speeches and ads ready to roll.

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Yesterday afternoon Right Hon. Winston Churchill, former Chancellor of the Exchequer in Great Britain, left with his party by the 4:30 o'clock boat for Seattle.

Father and Son Separated at Sea Reunited at Rescue

16th Annual Beerfest Completely Sold Out

Parents of murdered Saanich Teen Shocked and Disappointed with Decision

Student Events Cancelled and Services Cut Off

Property Owners Say They Face Ruin Because of a By-Law Passed in Haste

The allegations that prompted the suspension and investigation of former Victoria police chief Paul Battershill came from "senior police officers against their Chief Constable," B.C. Police Complaints Commissioner Dirk Ryneveld revealed Thursday.

Langford is suing an 18-year-old Langford man and his parents for almost $30,000 in damages from a two-year graffiti tagging spree around the city.

Victoria’s Andrew Crow scored 10 tries at the under-18 national rugby tournament in Ottawa. Three of his tallies came in the championship final Aug. 24, as B.C. defeated Ontario 45-0 for the gold.

Len Barrie’s Tampa Bay Lightning are one of eight NHL teams participating in the annual Traverse City prospect tournament. The tourney is held in its namesake town in Michigan from Sept. 12 - 17, and this is the sixth consecutive year the Lightning are in it.

Residents of the Clearbrook area might have been flabbergasted to see a man totally engulfed in flames burst out of a room at the Alpine Motor Inn and fall to the ground before a police officer douses him with an extinguisher.

Opposition politicians and media commentators share a common trait. We're both free to demand action on problems without having to find the money to pay for it.

Four days have now passed since the official beginning of the 2008-09 year in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district.

LANGLEY, B.C. - Family members gathered to kneel and pray at a Langley, B.C., mushroom farm Friday night where three workers died and three others were seriously injured after inhaling toxic gas.

Stephen Harper's Conservatives have a long way to go to win a majority in the coming election, according to an extensive new poll that shows the Tories' support is concentrated in rural regions of western Canada with few seats.

As the Vancouver Island Raiders and Victoria Rebels prepare for a big-time battle on the gridiron today, the Raiders know they'll have their big-time performer back in their lineup, at a position he's most familiar with.

Officers under investigation for excessive use of force should be reassigned or suspended, the inquest jury into the death of Kyle Tait recommended Friday.

The digital age has brought little relief for post-secondary students who are dropping hundreds of dollars this month for expensive hard- and soft-cover textbooks.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has ordered a fourth trial for Kelly Ellard, convicted of murder in the infamous 1997 teen-swarming death of 14-year-old Reena Virk.

Vancouver's Robin Blaser joined some of the planet's most renowned poets two months ago on stage at a gala literary event in Toronto, where he read some of his verse.

Kids won't be allowed to race in Sunday's soapbox races in Kitsilano, thanks to an adults-only regulation set out by the event's corporate sponsor, energy-drink maker Red Bull.

The government will spend more than $76 million to upgrade military facilities and equipment on the East and West coasts, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Saturday.

The head of the umbrella labour organization in British Columbia is calling for an investigation into the deaths of three farm workers on Friday.

Some of British Columbia's best journalists have been named as finalists for the 2008 Jack Webster Awards.

Mandatory stress and anger management workshops for police officers are among the eight recommendations of a Burnaby, B.C., coroner's jury probing the case of a teenager whom police shot to death in a stolen vehicle.

The weapon used in the 2007 killing of a Kelowna teen could not have discharged accidentally, an RCMP forensics expert told a murder trial yesterday.

As expected, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called a federal election for October 14. Harper made the announcement this morning from Ottawa.

Man released months after bizarre incident Campbell River Mirror • Sep-05-2008 Charles Drake has been given another chance to fulfill his conditional sentence order.

A Supreme Court judge has dismissed a petition from Dean Park residents that sought to have a building permit for the Panorama Recreation Centre set aside.

Cathy McLeod is introduced Saturday as the Conservative party's appointed candidate in the federal election. At right is constituency association president Dennis Piva

Cory Frostad is one of a dozen people who have been told they will become homeless on Wednesday, when the City of Abbotsford closes down three “boarding house” properties being operated by a single landlord.

If you knew the identity of a killer, would you keep your mouth shut? What if the killer was your own son, or your brother? Hard though it may be to believe, police strongly suspect someone out there may know who killed Bobby Atwal, but are protecting the killer with their silence.

She wants to do it as a thank you to the city who backed her all the way to a reality TV show final and for a charity that supports her cancer-stricken mom.

If you think you saw something large and shiny crawling along the Canada Line in Richmond this last week, you'd be right. The operators of the new line, InTransitBC, have started testing Canada Line trains.

A perfect storm of rising sea levels and sudden heavy rainfall puts Richmond, which was built on a flood plain, at significant risk of flooding.

The Surrey man accused of stabbing a co-worker to death at a Richmond cabinet-making shop appears to have been ostracized by his co-workers in the weeks leading up the stabbing.