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Arson burns building, destroys parked car A 24-year-old man was arrested Monday after witnesses say they watched him break the window of a parked van in the 800 block of Fisgard Street, light a piece of paper and throw it inside.

A B.C. Supreme Court trial began yesterday for a Victoria-area man charged with child-pornography offences allegedly linked to an international sting operation.

Kenya's Patrick Konchellah, the 1994 Commonwealth Games champion, has died in Rift Valley where he was recouping.

Renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli says he's developed a strong musical bond with celebrated Canadian producer David Foster.

Victoria's hotels had an average occupancy of 59.6 per cent in October, down from 63.3 per cent the same month last year.

Victoria is a perfect getaway. It is truly one of Canadaa TMs premier travel destinations .

Alex Cuba will play Folk Under the Clock on Saturday. Cuba is a two-time Juno Award winner for best world music and hails originally from Cuba.

Just a few blocks from the well-known tourist attractions of Victoria lies James Bay , the oldest residential district on the west coast of North America.

"Hit the deck," cries Leading Seaman Erik Lindholm as air sirens wail. Pods of soldiers and civilians drop to the dust-caked ground or scoot into concrete bunkers just before 10 a.m. inside this sprawling desert military base of about 22,000 people.

With fewer than 40,000 residents, Victoria has a population roughly the size of Bremerton or Olympia, with tourism as the second-largest industry .

One man is dead and two others are in critical condition in hospital after their boat overturned on a popular waterway near Victoria, B.C. Witnesses called 911 just after 5 p.m. Thursday night after hearing screaming and thrashing in the water on the Gorge Waterway, which runs northwest of Victoria.

Much about Victoria has never changed, will never change. The good gray Coho , now 50 years old, still toots like a teenager as she enters the Inner Harbour, and the great Woolly Mammoth still stands guard in the Royal BC Museum.

Alex Cuba's self-titled third album would be but another impressive step in his steadily rising career were it not for his recent profile-catapulting coup: Cuba co-wrote more than half the songs on Nelly Furtado's new Spanish-language album Mi Plan.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Foster began studying piano at the age of five, and just eight years later enrolled in the University of Washington's music program.

And then there were three. The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation and its 10 member advisory committee today announced the three concept submissions selected to move forward to the next stage of the competition for the new St.

Kids and families flocked to the nighttime Island Farms Santa Claus Light Parade and the Children's Christmas Festival in Centennial Square A November 22, 2009 A A A A The 35th annual Island Farms Santa's Light Parade featured all kinds of great entertainment for the kids including floats here one from Santa's Anonymous in Victoria, B.C. November ...

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Ray Henault decorates Cpl. Stuart Langridge in Afghanistan.

Dr. Salima Shariff, a Surrey cardiologist, feeds the baby that she and her husband, Aziz Nurmohamed, went to Nepal to adopt.

Who is the best cobbler in Victoria BC? I have a pair of Black Spot Unswooshers that I like the look of, but are falling apart prematurely.

Alan Cassells, a researcher at the University of Victoria, says even government ads for immunization can be misleadingly one-sided. "You should get a flu shot based on science." Photograph by: Valentin Flauraud/Reuters, Valentin Flauraud/Reuters The H1N1 virus is spreading rapidly across the country, causing more illness than some doctors have seen ...