KAMLOOPS - Workers at the A&W restaurant in Valleyview have ratified their inaugural contract, making them the first in Canada to unionize, according to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). In a statement, IBEW says 20 employees at the restaurant located on the East Trans Canada Highway voted...

The Kamloops Blazers picked Teagen Bouchard with the 14th overall pick in the WHL Prospects Draft on Wednesday (May 7). He racked up 21 goals and 61 points in 30 games with Northern Alberta Xtreme last season in the under-15 Canadian Sport School Hockey League ranks. Bouchard, a five-foot-seven 155-pound right shot fro...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers have completed the WHL Prospects Draft and U.S. Priority Draft. All told, the Blazers picked 12 players - six forwards, four defencemen and two goaltenders - across the two drafts Wednesday and Thursday, May 7 and 8. There were four players each from Alberta and Saskatchewan and two each...

KAMLOOPS -- B.C. Lions' mini-camp kicked off on Wednesday (May 8) in Kamloops.After a first-round exit from the playoffs last season, the CFL club shook things up, dispatching head coach Rick Campbell and bringing in a familiar face as his replacement. Former Lions' quarterback Buck Pierce took over as head coach in De...

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!

VANCOUVER - The Supreme Court in British Columbia has ordered a pause of operations at a wastewater storage facility at the Mount Polley mine as an addition to the dam is challenged by a local First Nation. The court's decision issued Thursday orders the Mount Polley Mining Corp. not deposit mine tailings into a storag...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say a two-year investigation in partnership with the province's homicide investigation team has led to the arrest of a suspect in two unsolved murders. They say an 18-year-old was found dead at Hazelnut Meadows Park in Surrey on May 26, 2022, and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Tea...

TORONTO - Just days after U.S. President Donald Trump started making threats to impose 100 per cent tariffs on foreign-made films, the head of Canada's biggest cinema chain surprisingly had some pep in his voice. Cineplex Inc. CEO Ellis Jacob attributed his instantly obvious excitement to the packed, upcoming spring an...

The Kamloops Blazers picked Teagen Bouchard with the 14th overall pick in the WHL Prospects Draft on Wednesday (May 7). He racked up 21 goals and 61 points in 30 games with Northern Alberta Xtreme last season in the under-15 Canadian Sport School Hockey League ranks. Bouchard, a five-foot-seven 155-pound right shot fro...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers have completed the WHL Prospects Draft and U.S. Priority Draft. All told, the Blazers picked 12 players - six forwards, four defencemen and two goaltenders - across the two drafts Wednesday and Thursday, May 7 and 8. There were four players each from Alberta and Saskatchewan and two each...

KAMLOOPS -- B.C. Lions' mini-camp kicked off on Wednesday (May 8) in Kamloops.After a first-round exit from the playoffs last season, the CFL club shook things up, dispatching head coach Rick Campbell and bringing in a familiar face as his replacement. Former Lions' quarterback Buck Pierce took over as head coach in De...

TORONTO - Standing in an MRI control room packed with fellow ALS researchers, Dr. Lorne Zinman excitedly points to the brain scan on his phone. There's a white spot on the image, right where Bill Traynor's motor cortex is. The 70-year-old patient is lying on the MRI bed with his head inside a dome that sends focused ul...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to unveil his new cabinet at a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall at 10:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday. After winning the Liberal leadership in March, Carney swiftly named 23 MPs to his cabinet, not including himself. His first cabinet was smaller than former prime minister Justin Tru...

OTTAWA - Interim NDP leader Don Davies says his party is in "very early" discussions with the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney about being granted official party status in the House of Commons. The NDP was reduced to seven seats in the election, below the 12-seat threshold for official party status in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21, according to a memo issued to the force on Friday. It is the broadest and most detailed directive so far on Defense Secretary Pete He...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - The Pakistan Cricket Board postponed its Pakistan Super League on Friday following rising military tensions between India and Pakistan. "Cricket, while being a unifying force and a source of joy, must take a respectful pause," the PCB said in a statement. The PCB said it acted on advice from ...

A federal judge in Vermont on Friday released on bail a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb. U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington released Rumeysa Ozturk pending a final decis...