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No buts (or butts) about it: Arizona's governor is going after smokers and the overweight. Jan Brewer wants to charge $50 a year to recipients of Medicaid -the state's health-care plan for the poor -who don't follow a weight-loss plan.

A handful of thieves recently released from jail are thought to be responsible for more than doubling the rate of break-ins in Nanaimo, police said. There have been 34 break-ins in the past three weeks, RCMP spokesman Const. Gary O'Brien said.

Negotiations and students in limbo

When Stephen Harper went into his Bubble Boy routine in Saanich last week, most of the media just grumbled and rolled their eyes at the Conservatives' control-freak tactics. Not Deddeda Stemler.

Official community plan forecasts 10,000 new arrivals in downtown, Songhees by 2041

A former pro hockey player who said his NHL career was cut short because of sexual abuse inflicted by a childhood coach has been awarded $605,000 by the B.C. Supreme Court.

The Johnson Street rail bridge, closed to trains last month because of corrosion on key structural supports, should not be reopened to any traffic, including cyclists and pedestrians, city staff say.

Langford is planning to cut its property taxes this year. Councillors gave their blessing Monday to a budget that forecasts taxes going down this year 0.23 per cent -or about $2 for the average homeowner.

University of Victoria law students will hold their own version of Toronto's "Slut Walk" on Tuesday, to protest against sexual violence.

Variety of governments, agencies and organizations have planned for the worst