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Cancer fraud suspect caught in Victoria

A man wanted in connection with a suspected fraudulent cancer fundraiser in Calgary has been arrested in Victoria. Victoria police brought a man into custody Tuesday on Yates Street, near Central Middle School.

Jack Knox: An Island witness to Libya's uneasy transition

When we last left Ali Ezletni, he was still shaken from the phone call, the one in which his brother's desperate pleas were all but drowned out by gunfire.

Man and woman who used bear spray to rob Rogers store arrested

Victoria police arrested a man and a woman in connection with the robbery of a Rogers video store last week. The Quadra Street store was robbed Sept. 2 by a man who used bear spray to threaten staff.

Church plans to use chair windfall to help others

He didn't even say thank heaven. At least, not in an interview with the Times Colonist. Rev.

West Nile case count jumps 36 per cent in Ontario

New West Nile virus counts for Ontario show the province has already had the worst year for the illness since 2002.

Arrests made in Rogers video store robbery

Victoria police arrested a man and a woman in connection with the robbery of a Rogers video store last week. The Quadra Street store was robbed Sept. 2 by a man who used bear spray to threaten staff.
Fire evacuees back but still on alert

Fire evacuees back but still on alert

The last of the evacuees from the forest fire in Peachland are being allowed to return home, though all 1,550 people who were forced from their homes remain on alert to leave at a moment's notice.

Minister denies pre-election slant to bridge-toll cut

Commuters in the Lower Mainland are getting a break on a controversial bridge toll, but the Liberal minister in charge denies the deep discount is a pre-election goodie to win votes in NDP ridings.

Ahousaht unite to save chief's son in cougar attack

He heard the animal whistling and knew he was in the fight of his life

William wants an heir and a spare

Britain's Prince William revealed for the first time Wednesday that he wants to have two children with his wife, Kate, as crowds turned out in Singapore on the second day of the couple's visit to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee.