CLEARWATER, B.C. - An early morning collision has halted traffic on the Yellowhead Highway near the District of Clearwater. DriveBC first reported of a vehicle incident on Highway 5 at Cliff Road - around three kilometres east of Clearwater - shortly before 2:00 a.m. Tuesday (April 23). The road is closed in both direc...

KAMLOOPS - A sentencing date has been set for Zale Coty, 55, of Kamloops, a high-ranking member of the Throttle Lockers motorcycle gang and drug dealer. Earlier this month, a Kamloops courtroom heard Coty apologize for the harm his actions have caused and plead guilty to multiple charges of drug trafficking. Coty was o...

KAMLOOPS - Last month, during the supplemental budget process for the City of Kamloops, a new medical response vehicle for Kamloops Fire Rescue was denied.The move to deny by council was not to say the proposed SUV was not needed, but that it felt it wasn't the municipality's - and therefore the Kamloops taxpayers' - r...

KAMLOOPS - It's another dent in the growing need for childcare in Kamloops. Dozens of spaces are opening at School District 73's new Happyvale facility. Monday afternoon (April 22), the district hosted a grand opening of the centre, run by Inquiring Little Minds. The daycare mirrors what currently exists at Ralph Bell ...

Maureen Gordon has weathered hard times before. She and her husband began running ecotourism outfit Maple Leaf Adventures out of Vancouver about a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks devastated international travel in 2001. The rebound was relatively quick. Fallout from COVID-19 has proven much more prolonged. &quo...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government says legislation formally recognizing the Haida Nation's Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii was introduced in the legislature Monday. The province says the "Rising Tide" Haida Title Lands Agreement is the first negotiated deal of its kind in Canada, providing ...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Williams Lake RCMP are requesting the public's help in locating Jackie Ray Siemens, who was last seen on Thursday (April 18) . Siemens, 48, was last seen at the Tim Hortons on Highway 97 in Williams Lake at about midnight on April 17. Family and police are concerned for his well-being. Siemens is ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is raising eyebrows anew over his carbon pricing stance, refusing to say today whether or not he would keep scheduled increases in place if he becomes prime minister. The federal carbon price is set to rise to $170 per tonne of carbon dioxide or equivalent by 2030. Singh says ...

VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op says the city should rethink its approach to 4-20 celebrations and sanction what c...

CARIBOO, B.C. - Evacuation alerts have been issued for properties near two wildfires burning out of control in central B.C., including the small community of Endako, as fears of a long wildfire season in the province start to materialize. The Cariboo Regional District issued an alert on Sunday night covering six parcel...

MONTREAL - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says two former United Nations employees in Montreal have been charged after they allegedly took part in a conspiracy to illegally sell Chinese-made drones and other military equipment to Libya. The RCMP says Fathi Ben Ahmed Mhaouek, who is 61 and lives in the Montreal subur...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Medical Association is asking the federal government to reconsider its proposed changes to capital gains taxation, arguing it will affect doctors' retirement savings. Kathleen Ross, the association's president, says many doctors incorporate their medical practices and invest for retirement inside ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Tourism operators face heavy debt, even as business roars back Canadian tourism operators says the tourism sector hasn't returned to what it was pre-COVID. Many businesses report carrying a heavy deb...

SASKATOON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Saskatoon today. An itinerary released by his office says he will make an announcement this morning to highlight measures focused on youth, education, and health that were contained in last week's budget. Trudeau will be joined at the event by Dan Vandal, minister fo...

Fresh research suggests western Canada's once-dwindling caribou numbers are finally growing. But the same paper concludes the biggest reason for the rebound is the slaughter of hundreds of wolves, a policy that will likely have to go on for decades. "If we don't shoot wolves, given the state of the habitat that ...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government says legislation formally recognizing the Haida Nation's Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii was introduced in the legislature Monday. The province says the "Rising Tide" Haida Title Lands Agreement is the first negotiated deal of its kind in Canada, providing ...

BERLIN (AP) - A man who works for a German lawmaker in the European Parliament was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, German prosecutors said Tuesday. The suspect, identified only as Jian G. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested Monday in Dresden, federal prosecutors said in a statement. They didn't s...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Two Malaysian military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board, the navy said. The helicopters were rehearsing at a naval base in northern Perak state for the navy's 90th anniversary celebration next month when the accident occu...

PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona judge declares a mistrial Monday in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border. George Alan Kelly, 75, was charged with second-degree murder in the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, 48, who lived just south of the...

GENEVA (AP) - The World Anti-Doping Agency said after reviewing various media reports that it stands by its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned heart medication before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. WADA addressed questions at a Monday news conference and acknowledged there would be skeptic...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency known as UNRWA...

NEW YORK (AP) - In opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial, prosecutors alleged Monday that the former president "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt" the 2016 presidential election. The commencement of the proceedings set the stage for weeks of unsavory and salacious testimony ab...