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Hey, know what Thursday is? It's the day the Olympic countdown begins in earnest, exactly one year from the opening of the 2010 Winter Games. I can't wait. Can't wait to show B.C. to the world. Can't wait for the pageantry.

Fans attending GottaCon event are a little obsessive about their hobby

Traffic fatalities on Vancouver Island dropped last year, say police. The number of deaths on Island roads fell from 54 in 2007 to 46 in 2008, said Cpl. Darren Lagan, spokesman for Island District RCMP in Victoria.

Historic downtown tobacconist runs afoul of B.C. signage laws

A late-night break-in at a Colwood business yielded a $170,000 piece of skin-treatment equipment.

Police say a large amount of stolen property, including laptops and replica handguns, was recovered in a search at a Fernwood apartment on Thursday.

Greater Victoria is still third best in country after Regina, Edmonton

A proposal by St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church to build a nine-storey office tower on church hall property at Courtney and Douglas streets was turned down by Victoria councillors this week as too big and tall.

An expanded neonatal unit at Victoria General Hospital will save mothers facing difficult births one of medicine’s most stressful interventions — a plane trip.

A documentary about one of the most brutal episodes of gang violence in Victoria makes its world premiere at the Victoria Film Festival tonight.