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With 23 in Tokyo, Canada has its highest medal tally in non-boycotted Summer Games
TOKYO - The hot and muggy weather in Tokyo that wreaked havoc on athletes throughout the Games could not slow down or cool off Canada on the final full day of competition. But the inadvertent dip into...
Aug 07, 2021
Nanaimo Airport records first rainfall in over 50 days
NANAIMO - The streak is over.After a bone dry stretch of 52 days without measurable precipitation at Nanaimo Airport's monitoring station, showers moving across the region on Friday, Aug. 6 finally st...
Aug 07, 2021
Feds reach tentative deal with striking border guards days before restrictions ease
WASHINGTON - Canada's border agents reached a new tentative agreement with the federal government late Friday after a daylong work-to-rule campaign left long lines of semi-trailers and passenger vehic...
Aug 07, 2021
Male southern resident killer whale possibly dead from cancer, says expert
VANCOUVER - The endangered southern resident killer whale population may have suffered more loss with one of the orcas presumed dead, says an expert. The orca, K-21, was seen in the last week of July ...
Aug 07, 2021
Male southern resident killer whale possibly dead from cancer, says expert
VANCOUVER - The endangered southern resident killer whale population may have suffered more loss with one of the orcas presumed dead, says an expert. The orca, K-21, was seen in the last week of July ...
Aug 07, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: If you were told to leave everything behind, would you?
IF A MASSIVE WILDFIRE was roaring towards your home, and you were told to evacuate, would you? A surprising number wouldn't.As crews fought - unsuccessfully, in large part - to save Monte Lake from th...
Aug 07, 2021
Durant and US men extend dominance in Olympic basketball
TOKYO (AP) - The American reign over Olympic men's basketball lives on, even though the Tokyo Games took some work to win. Kevin Durant scored 29 points and joined Carmelo Anthony as the only three-ti...
Aug 07, 2021
Saskatchewan Roughriders deliver hard-fought victory before sold-out stadium
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders delivered a 33-29 victory against the BC Lions in their first game in over 600 days, a hard-fought triumph for Saskatchewan's beloved football team. Hours before ...
Aug 07, 2021
Man runs from British Columbia to Ontario to raise funds for young cancer patients
Rick Fall spent every day of the last three and a half months running roughly the equivalent of a full marathon as he trekked from British Columbia to Ontario. The 61-year-old has been making the grue...
Aug 07, 2021
Evacuation Order issued because of threatening Lytton Creek wildfire
KAMLOOPS - The Lytton Creek Wildfire is threatening some properties along the eastern edge of the Fraser River, northeast of Lytton. It has prompted the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) to iss...
Aug 06, 2021
