KAMLOOPS - Kaeden Tate of Huntington Beach, Calif., is 6-foot-4 and entering his 17-year-old season with lofty goals. "Yeah, coming for that starting position, coming for Eddy's spot," Tate said with a smile. Competition in the crease is a storyline for the Kamloops Blazers, whose on-ice training camp sessio...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - From 120 metres above, the scale of Kamloops' newest school comes into view. For the first time since 2001, a new school on a fresh site is ready to open in the Kamloops Thompson district as school season begins to roll out. "In terms of a brand new elementary school in a new location, Snine Eleme...

KAMLOOPS - Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement ahead of a storm that could bring heavy localized rainfall and thunderstorms to the Fraser Canyon, South Thompson and Nicola regions Friday evening (Aug. 28).The forecaster said this comes as an upper level low will across the South Coast and southwes...

CLINTON, B.C. - Llenllenéy'ten (High Bar First Nation) has partially lifted its evacuation orders and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) has downgraded an evacuation order to an alert as the massive Pear Lake wildfire dies down. The TNRD said an evacuation order on about 69 properties has been downgrad...

British Columbia legislator and Indigenous leader Joan Phillip has died, with Premier David Eby honouring her as an "epic fighter." The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs said in a statement on Friday that the NDP MLA died peacefully Friday aftern...

NELSON - A third grizzly bear from the same family group has been killed after it was relocated away from Nelson, B.C., but then turned up with its sister at a recreational area and showed a "high degree of comfort" around people. Conservation officers...

VANCOUVER - One of the men found guilty in the so-called "Surrey Six" killings in 2007 has lost his bid for a stay of proceedings, meaning his convictions for first-degree murder still stand. Cody Haevischer alleged he suffered an abuse of process, but...

VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A new water-restriction order has been placed on the Bessette Creek area in the southern Interior of British Columbia, after the province deemed chinook salmon at risk from drought conditions. The B.C. Ministry of Land, Wat...

A Edmonton-born man who lived most of his life in the United States is back in Canada, after losing a legal fight to remain south of the border to be with his two young sons. Curtis Wright, 40, said he endured terrible conditions at different U.S. Immi...

The B.C. Conservatives came within three ridings of victory in the 2024 provincial election, winning 44 seats. But since then, the party's caucus has been thinned by more than a quarter, amid differences over its ideology, and questions about its direc...

British Columbia legislator and Indigenous leader Joan Phillip has died, with Premier David Eby honouring her as an "epic fighter." The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs said in a statement on Friday that the NDP MLA died peacefully Friday aftern...

OTTAWA - Canada's privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog's recommendations. Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne's office said a year ago t...

VANCOUVER - One of the men found guilty in the so-called "Surrey Six" killings in 2007 has lost his bid for a stay of proceedings, meaning his convictions for first-degree murder still stand. Cody Haevischer alleged he suffered an abuse of process, but...

OTTAWA - Indigenous leaders and advocates are outraged after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America on Thursday. The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari:io, which means "...

OTTAWA - CBC/Radio-Canada is changing its language policy to state that direct attribution will no longer be required when describing 9/11 as an act of "terrorism." The decision comes after CBC came under fire over its long-standing policy of not label...

OTTAWA - Premiers are sharply divided over whether to use Canada's natural resources as leverage in the trade war with the U.S., and potash has emerged as a key point of contention. Canada is a major global supplier of potash, a key ingredient in ferti...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Poor weather hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal on Saturday as the search for hundreds of missing people in areas devastated by catastrophic flash floods along the border with China entered its fourth day. ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno was sentenced Friday to 5 years in prison after a court found him guilty of accepting bribes from a Chinese company in exchange for helping it secure a contract to build a hydroelectric pla...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Tampa Bay Rays got county approval Friday on a financing plan that will allow them to build a new stadium, a day after city officials approved their part for the $2.3 billion ballpark project that will replace the domed Tropicana...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, acco...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A new National Park Service report backs President Donald Trump's proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects to the sightline between a host of iconic landmarks in Washington, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln...

U.S. Immigration officials arrested controversial British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday in New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Immigration officials announced on Friday that Yiannopoulos w...