NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2009

Erik Christensen scored in the fourth round of the shootout and Daniel Sedin missed on his chance as the last place Atlanta Thrashers beat the visiting Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Friday night.

Three skiers and a snowboarder were rescued Friday afternoon on Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver, after ducking past a clearly marked boundary rope and ignoring instructions to return to the inbound area

Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies.

The pirates in three speedboats and armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades twice tried to board the Greek-flagged Kriti Episkopi but were scared off when the crew turned fire hoses on them and EU aircraft scrambled from a nearby EU naval flotilla t

Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan's Shah Wali Kot district on Thursday shot and killed a suspected suicide bomber who was believed to be planning a "spectacular attack," officials reported Friday.

The Vancouver Canucks will try to avoid falling through in the proverbial "trap game" Friday night against the cellar dwellers of the NHL in Atlanta.

Welcome to Vancouver, Jason LaBarbera.

A Canadian soldier has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a presumed Taliban fighter in Helmand province.

Fears that another snowboarder may be wandering in the snowbound mountains north of Vancouver have been laid to rest.

Welcome to Vancouver, Jason LaBarbera.

Two men are dead after three avalanches in the past 24 hours at British Columbia's popular Whistler Blackcomb resort.

"The alarm bells have gone off for the City of Toronto. If this pipe collapses, we would have a catastrophic event on our hands. Because you have more water going through that sewer pipe than is in the Don River."

Three people are dead after an apparent shooting at a south end restaurant this afternoon. Emergency crews were called to MacLeod Plaza at 180 94 Ave. S.E. just before 4 p.m.

Israel took aim at Gaza's rulers for the first time in the six-day-old military campaign Thursday, killing a senior member of Hamas in an air strike on his home.

Flights were cancelled and travellers were urged to stay off Nova Scotia's roads as a major blizzard roared through the province on New Year's Day.

Snowplows were pulled off the roads around 6 a.m. because of near-zero visibility and blowing snow. Transportation officials say they may not be able to get the plows back on the roads until Friday morning.

CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian official says that Somali pirates have seized an Egyptian cargo ship with 28 crew members on board.

From a pregnant man to cyber divorce, 2008 was a year of firsts in the realms of relationships and sex.

TORONTO -- A Mexican newspaper is reporting two Canadian tourists have been injured in a shooting at a nightclub in the tourist destination of Cabo San Lucas.

It might not be the debut Vancouver Canucks fans are hoping for, but it could be crucial to the squad all the same.

Snow, strong winds and bitterly cold temperatures are giving Canadians a good reason to spend New Year's Day indoors.

A Ugandan woman is the proud mother of a baby after giving birth on a flight from Amsterdam to Boston.

Israel yesterday launched its largest raid on Gaza with two waves of air attacks that killed at least 225 people and injured more than 700, according to Palestinian doctors

PARIS -- For many around the world watching the new year arrive, 2008 had not been pretty -- slumping stocks, disappearing jobs.

A young snowboarder who was found three days after going missing on Mount Seymour in North Vancouver told rescuers he saw other tracks on the mountain.