KAMLOOPS - Special Olympics B.C. (SOBC) hosted its Regional Basketball Tournament last weekend in Kamloops. A total of five teams - two from Kamloops, two from Kelowna and one from Prince George - worked to qualify for the next level of the competition. However, it was not all about winning."We have lots of sports...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP responded to approximately 334 calls for service from midnight Friday (April 12) to 9:00 a.m. on Monday (April 15).Below are some highlights from the reports. Aberdeen assault arrest A Kamloops man has a court date and conditions following an assault this past weekend in Aberdeen.On Saturday at...

KAMLOOPS - More than 14,000 British Columbians have died in the eight years since the province declared a public health emergency due to the toxic supply of illicit drugs. Since the crisis was declared on April 14, 2016, the number of deaths in the province has steadily increased in every year except for 2019. Since 20...

KAMLOOPS - This weekend will mark the 13th year of the Chris Rose Walk for Autism. The Kamloops event has grown steadily since it was first held in 2011 and the non-profit organization it raises money for has also become a vital part of the neurodiverse community. The Chris Rose Therapy Centre for Autism works with peo...

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia officials are celebrating the planting of 10 billion seedlings since reforestation efforts began nearly a century ago. A statement from the Forests Ministry says two billion of those seedlings have been planted in the last seven years. It says the 10-billionth seedling was among 305 mill...

LUMBY, B.C. - An RCMP investigation into the alleged abduction of a woman from Lumby, B.C., has turned into a probe of a suspicious death. Mounties say in a statement that officers with the North Okanagan detachment found the woman's body in a rural area on Sunday, and a man believed to have been involved was arrested ...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A Vancouver Aquarium expert who's been involved in attempts to rescue an orphaned orca says the calf may be feeding on fish in the B.C. lagoon where she's been trapped for more than three weeks. Veterinarian Martin Haulena says he got a good look at the calf during Friday's failed attempt to corral the...

KELOWNA, B.C. - British Columbia is planning to add 240 new units to its complex-care housing program, providing homes for people with mental-health and addictions challenges that overlap with other serious conditions. The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions says in a statement 200 of the units will be located in ...

DELTA, B.C. - Pro-Palestinian protesters have blocked access to a major container port terminal in Metro Vancouver. Terminal operator GCT Canada says "illegal protesters' actions are causing an unsafe situation" as truckers that try to access the Deltaport facility are being held on the Roberts Bank causeway....

VANCOUVER - Home sales in British Columbia fell by almost 10 per cent in March compared with the same period last year, in a slowdown an analyst says could be buyers waiting for lower interest rates. The B.C. Real Estate Association says the province saw 6,460 residential unit sales in the Multiple Listing Service syst...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A Vancouver Aquarium expert who's been involved in attempts to rescue an orphaned orca says the calf may be feeding on fish in the B.C. lagoon where she's been trapped for more than three weeks. Veterinarian Martin Haulena says he got a good look at the calf during Friday's failed attempt to corral the...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is set to present the federal budget on Tuesday after a countrywide tour that teased many of the housing and affordability measures to be included in the document. Here's what the federal Liberals have already promised. Housing plan On Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an...

OTTAWA - The federal leader of the New Democrats is insisting his party's position on carbon pricing remains unchanged. But Jagmeet Singh is refusing to say explicitly whether he supports Canadians having to pay it on consumer items like gasoline. Singh met with reporters today for the first time since a speech last w...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal says people can be barred from Canada under espionage-related provisions of the immigration law only when their activities have a clear link to Canadian security. The finding comes today in a pair of rulings involving men from Ethiopia who were found inadmissible to Canada for bein...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she's urging Israel to de-escalate rising conflicts in the Middle East and not bomb Iran in retaliation for Sunday's thwarted airstrikes. Joly says she told Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz to "take the win" of having stopped Iranian airstrikes a...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Dental Hygienists Association is calling out the Liberal government for what it says is a double standard in the payment of services under a new federal plan. Last week, Health Canada released the reimbursement guide for the new federal dental-care plan, which is expected to provide oral health c...

SYDNEY (AP) - Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person was an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy Tuesday after the stabbing at Christ the Good Shepherd Church that injured Bishop Mar M...

NEW YORK (AP) - Caitlin Clark was selected with the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever on Monday night. The former Iowa star became a household name among basketball fans during her record-breaking college career, and she will now try and help revive the Indiana franchise along with last season's No. 1 p...

The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus. The boy's family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do. The child's father, 36-year-old dentist ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The justices' order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provi...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's military chief said Monday that Israel will respond to Iran's weekend missile strike, but did not immediately elaborate on when and how. Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said that Israel is still considering its steps, but he said that the Iranian strike of missiles and attack drones "will be met wi...

DENVER (AP) - The couple who owned a Colorado funeral home - where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last year - have been indicted on federal charges for fraudulently obtaining nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government, according to court documents unsealed Monday. The new federal charges aga...