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Former Texas Rep. Sam Johnson, a military pilot who spent years at a prisoner of war in Vietnam before serving more than two decades in Congress, died Wednesday at age 89. The conservative Republican,...

NEW YORK - A decade after the "Hunger Games" series had apparently ended, readers were clearly ready for more. Suzanne Collins' "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" sold more 500,000 copies last week,...

MERRITT, B.C. - There is turnover at the top of the Merritt RCMP detachment.Insp. Lorne Wood, who took over the detachment in early 2018, has been commissioned and transferred to Prince George, where ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has entered the longest period in a state of emergency in its history and there's no end in sight, says Premier John Horgan. Horgan extended the emergency period by an...

Jim Benning says his team might take its show on the road - south of the border. The general manager of the Vancouver Canucks hinted on a conference call with reporters Wednesday that if the...

KAMLOOPS - RCMP members rushed to the Lansdowne Village Shopping Centre in downtown Kamloops Wednesday afternoon (May 27) after a gun complaint.In a news release, Staff Sgt. Sascha Fesenko says the ca...

LOS ANGELES - An investigation of Gabrielle Union's complaints of racism on the set of "America's Got Talent" concluded that her allegations were unfounded, according to NBC and the show's producers. ...

KAMLOOPS - Mittz Kitchen has been open throughout the pandemic with takeout and delivery. As restrictions have eased, the restaurant has reopened, though only at 50 per cent capacity. But the owners n...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - SeaWorld and Walt Disney World will reopen in Orlando, Florida, in June and July after months of inactivity because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to plans a city task ...

VICTORIA - The province has registered nine new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.That's according to a news release from the province issued Wednesday (May 27). The provincial total of test po...