VANCOUVER, B.C. - Olympic organizers are allowing a Winnipeg-based tour company to continue selling tickets for the 2010 Winter Games as part of a legal settlement that ends a lawsuit between the two sides.

A court spokesman says a laser eye surgeon in the U.S. has pleaded not guilty to an alleged murder-for-hire targeting two colleagues with Canadian roots.

A 48-year-old woman was hospitalized after family members violently tried to rouse her from her drunkenness, said police yesterday.

Winds of up to 90 km/h battered southwestern B.C. last night, leaving about 17,000 homes without electricity and cancelling ferry sailings between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay.

A man assassinated outside a local halfway house was in the wrong place at the wrong time, Vancouver police said yesterday.

WASHINGTON - The National Archives is bringing together investigators to search for scribbled secrets from the early days of the Watergate scandal as the chain of events began that destroyed Richard Nixon's presidency.

WASHINGTON - Palin-Beck 2012?

CALGARY - If Theo Fleury decides to pursue criminal charges against former junior hockey coach Graham James, Sheldon Kennedy will be in his former teammate's corner.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban kept to the shadows of Haji Baba on Wednesday as Canadian soldiers trying to seize control of the insurgent stronghold continued to pick up apart its defences.

A pair of animal rights groups are planning on protesting the seal hunt during the Olympic torch run over the next few months.