KAMLOOPS - The Fulton Cup is the only basketball tournament of the year that allows Kamloops-and-area high schools of all sizes to play against each other. This year, St. Ann's, South Kamloops, Brocklehurst, Barriere, Sa-Hali, NorKam, Westsyde, Valleyview and Merritt will be represented, with city championship bragging...

KAMLOOPS - The BC Conservatives are funneling comment regarding the collapse of OneBC toward interim leader Trevor Halford, with MLAs staying focused on their own leadership contest. But with one right-of-centre party in turmoil, it will be important for the BC Conservatives and whoever becomes their next leader to att...

KAMLOOPS - Delayne Dixon's home studio may be small, but the designs coming out of it have been on red carpets, in magazines, and now on Season 3 of Project Runway Canada. The latest season began airing several weeks ago and Dixon says she's heard from plenty of friends, family and even strangers who have been followin...

LYTTON, B.C. - The atmospheric weather system that is bringing heavy rain to B.C.'s south coast has triggered a new wave of high-temperature records across the province.According to preliminary numbers from Environment Canada, nine communities either broke or tied temperature records for Dec. 14, including Lytton, whic...

VANCOUVER - Young customers and families filter in and out of Foglifter, a bustling café in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, ordering croissants and lattes. Barista Nicholas Schorn says many, especially millennials, are open about their ritual...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says a man has been fined $50,000 for illegally hunting and killing wildlife in multiple incidents across British Columbia. It says in a post to social media that Daniel Gazzola from Maple Ridge, B.C.,...

ABBOTSFORD - Homicide investigators say a 35-year-old man has been arrested following a fatal stabbing in Abbotsford, B.C., over the weekend, but no charges have been laid. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says investigators are still determ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia legislator Dallas Brodie, whose OneBC party has removed her as leader, said the split happened after colleagues tried to stop her from firing a caucus staffer whose views on Jewish people were "disgusting" and antisemitic. B...

VICTORIA - A former grocery executive known for offering weekly deals says he is taking out a flyer on becoming the next leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. Darrell Jones, former president of the Pattison Food Group and known for the Darrell's Dea...

TORONTO - A new study says the COVID-19 vaccine protects pregnant women from getting severely ill or giving birth prematurely. Researchers with the Canadian Surveillance of COVID-19 in Pregnancy (CANCOVID-Preg) program, led by the University of British...

Canada Post says the millions of Canadians who write to Santa Claus with their wish lists will get a response this year. A month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers last year meant Old Saint Nick couldn't respond to letters, but kids were as...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... McGuinty 'confident' Canada will hit NATO spending targets Defence Minister David McGuinty says he's confident the federal government will hit its NATO defence spe...

OTTAWA - Canada is injecting tens of billions of dollars into defence as it looks to ramp up spending to levels not seen since the Cold War - both to meet its NATO commitments and to juice the domestic economy. But it remains to be seen whether Nationa...

Four months, 50 applications, two interviews, no job. The story of 21-year-old political studies graduate Lauren Hood might sound familiar to others in her generation. "In my mind, after completing the four years and getting my degree, I didn't think i...

VANCOUVER - Young customers and families filter in and out of Foglifter, a bustling café in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, ordering croissants and lattes. Barista Nicholas Schorn says many, especially millennials, are open about their ritual...

The Canadian Press has been speaking with young people about the financial challenges facing their generation - a tough job market, unaffordable housing and goals that seem out of reach. 'WAITING FOR EVERYTHING TO WORK OUT' A few hours into a night out...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach was "a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State," Australia's federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett s...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people. The military said in a statement on social media that t...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A small plane crashed in central Mexico while trying to make an emergency landing Monday, killing at least seven people, Mexico State Civil Protection Coordinator Adrián Hernández said. The accident took ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Authorities knocked on doors and scoured yards Monday in search of any video or other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage captured before ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration said Monday in a court filing that the president's White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security. The filing came in response to a lawsui...

TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) - Crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle on Monday after a small section of it failed following a week of heavy rains, prompting an evacuation order covering parts of three suburbs, an offic...