LILLOOET, B.C. - Residents in the Lillooet area are navigating yet another spell without emergency room access, the fifth in the last week and a half.Interior Health says the ER at the Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre will be closed for 25 hours starting at 7:00 a.m. Saturday (May 3). The ER is scheduled to reopen a...

Kamloops BMX Club members often feel like their haven is hidden, the facility tucked away behind Ord Road and shielded by the hills of Bachelor Heights. They don't want to conceal news of an addition to the club - a track for younger riders - and they want riders to know the 2025 season is underway. "The quality o...

KAMLOOPS - The last day of proceedings in Kamloops before the trial moves to Vancouver saw another witness testify to the distraught state the victim was in while trying to get his money back. What has been heard so far:Rogelio 'Butch' Bagabuyo, a former lawyer in the city, is charged with first-degree murder in relati...

KAMLOOPS - It's been one year since a fire ripped through St. Andrew's on the Square, leaving the historic building in need of extensive restoration.The oldest public building in Kamloops, St. Andrew's on the Square is well on its way back to its former glory, with the restoration phase of the project now complete. Whe...

Looking for that special something to make your yard stand out in the neighbourhood? Shawn Ulmer from Art Knapp Garden Centre and Florist in Kamloops has a number of unique and attractive trees of the weeping variety to provide that very element!

They come in to the store every spring and this year is no exception! Ivy Hik from Art Knapp's in Kamloops takes time to showcase some of the new tropicals that are now in stock for you to check out!

Magnolias are only meant to be grown in the lower mainland...right? Wrong says Maury HIk from Art Knapp's in Kamloops! There are lots of locations in town you can find success with this fantastic flowering tree!

Residents in parts of Mission, B.C., have been told to shelter in place with their windows closed after a derelict ferry caught fire. A statement from the city says its emergency operations centre has been activated in response to a fire aboard the Queen of Sidney ferry currently moored in the Fraser River. It says res...

VANCOUVER - Rev. Francis Galvan was supposed to attend the Lapu Lapu Day street festival last Saturday, but he was grieving the death of Pope Francis and wasn't in the mood for celebrating.Galvan, the pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Delta, B.C., said he received a text later that evening - "something terrible had...

VANCOUVER - In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the circus' Kooza show. Four days later, his brother responded. "Brother, we will get to see this together sometime," wrote Adam Kai-Ji Lo. But he knew it wasn't to be. Alexande...

Kamloops BMX Club members often feel like their haven is hidden, the facility tucked away behind Ord Road and shielded by the hills of Bachelor Heights. They don't want to conceal news of an addition to the club - a track for younger riders - and they want riders to know the 2025 season is underway. "The quality o...

KAMLOOPS -- Indigenous strength, excellence and unity will be celebrated at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships, which are scheduled to get underway on Monday (May 5) at McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre. Hosted by the City of Kamloops and Tkemlúps te Secwépemc, the under-18 tournament will ...

KAMLOOPS - A pair of former Kamloops Blazers will be part of Team Canada's coaching staff at the 2025 IIHF World Championships, which will be held in Sweden and Denmark this month.Dean Evason, the former Kamloops Blazers head coach - and Junior Oilers centre - has been named Team Canada head coach, while former Blazers...

WINKLER - Public health officials in Manitoba are warning of new measles exposure sites in two communities south of Winnipeg, including a medical centre and an elementary school. Officials say people may have been exposed to the virus at the C. W. Wiebe Medical Centre and the Dynacare blood and medical test lab in Wink...

OTTAWA - The New Democratic Party ran a leader-focused election campaign and lost touch with core supporters who ended up backing the Conservatives, says a former member of Parliament. Charlie Angus, who did not run in the last election after representing the northern Ontario riding of Timmins - James Bay for more than...

OTTAWA - More than three quarters of Canadians believe misinformation had an impact on the outcome of the federal election, a new poll suggests. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from April 29 to May 1, suggests that 19 per cent of people think false information or misinformation had a major...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Early vote counting in Australia's general election Saturday suggested the government was likely to be returned for a second term. The Australian Electoral Commission's early projections gave the ruling center-left Labor Party 70 seats and the conservative opposition coalition 24 seats in th...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan test-fired Saturday a ballistic missile as tensions with India spiked over last week's deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region. The surface-to-surface missile has a range of 450 kilometres (about 280 miles), the Pakistani military said. The launch of the Abdali Weapon System w...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo has won the presidential nomination of South Korea's main conservative party, facing an uphill battle against liberal front-runner Lee Jae-myung for the June 3 election. Observers say Han will likely try to align with other conservative forces, such as former...