KAMLOOPS - The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) is reporting a new start west of Kamloops Wednesday evening (June 4).BCWS says the fire broke out earlier in the day near Tobiano, 800 metres east of Cherry Bluff.The fire is suspected to have been caused by human activity. As of about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, it measured 0.4 hecta...

KAMLOOPS - Riley Brinnen felt lost and uninspired. He was appreciative of the opportunity to coach the TRU WolfPack men's volleyball team last season, but it was not always easy to watch from the sidelines. Boredom was setting in. The coaching and rehab routine was becoming banal. He lacked confidence. He could sense c...

KAMLOOPS - After the latest round of $10-a-day provincial funding subsidies were announced, no new childcare centres in the City of Kamloops secured $10-a-day status. Meanwhile regionally, three childcare centres in Vernon, Sorrento and Williams Lake were able to secure the subsidized rate. As of this spring, the Minis...

KAMLOOPS - The murder trial of Michael Wayne Palmer extended into day three of the scheduled five-week proceeding on Wednesday (June 4), with the Crown calling a pair of Kamloops RCMP officers to the stand. Palmer has been charged with one count of second-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder in relation t...

VANCOUVER - Maritime employers in British Columbia and the union representing port supervisors say they have ratified a new four-year collective agreement, after a dispute that saw workers locked out of container terminals last year. More coming. The Canadian Press

The British Columbia Wildfire Service is warning that incoming winds are expected to drive an out-of-control wildfire towards the community of Kelly Lake, about 80 kilometres south of Dawson Creek in the province's northeast. Karley Desrosiers, an information officer with the service, told a briefing hosted by the Peac...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Interior Health has opted to extend an overdose alert put in place last month for Williams Lake.The alert was distributed on May 23, with health officials saying an increase in drug overdose events and overdose deaths had been recorded.IH initially intended to remove the alert after one week. Wedn...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says he's surprised by criticism of plans for a large memorial event this month to honour victims of the Lapu Lapu festival attack, which a Filipino advocacy group says was arranged without proper consultation. Filipino BC says it wasn't told in advance about a vote approving the eve...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's power utility wants to boost the province's baseload electricity generation capacity in a bid to meet the province's growing demand from residents and industries. Baseload capacity refers to constant and stable power sources, with Energy Minister Adrian Dix announcing BC Hydro's request f...

MONTREAL - A Quebec law is coming into force, giving people new tools to obtain a court order to remove intimate images posted online. Under the Criminal Code, publishing, texting or sharing intimate images of someone without their consent is a crime. But for most victims, this does not always mean unlawfully shared im...

VANCOUVER - Maritime employers in British Columbia and the union representing port supervisors say they have ratified a new four-year collective agreement, after a dispute that saw workers locked out of container terminals last year. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Health Canada says a pharmaceutical company has recalled two lots of Seasonale birth control because the packages contain too many placebo pills. The agency says Teva Canada Ltd. received a complaint that the packages had an extra row of placebos in place of the active pills. The packages of Seasonale are sup...

OTTAWA - Former astronaut and minister Marc Garneau has died at 76 years old. MPs rose for a moment of silence in the House of Commons tonight at the request of government whip Mark Gerretsen. More coming. The Canadian Press

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she has invited Prime Minister Mark Carney to watch an Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup Final game. Smith says she's waiting to see if Carney will join her for Game 5, which could take place next weekend ahead of the G7 conference in Kananaskis, Alberta. Carney, who grew up in ...

WASHINGTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says there's been a "breakthrough" in conversations with American lawmakers and Trump's administration on Canada's role in the United States' quest for energy dominance. Smith says it's important that Americans also understand Canada's contributions to other U.S. in...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court says a lawsuit by prison inmates alleging ill treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic can move forward as a class action against the federal government. Inmates claim they were "subject to inhumane rights restrictions" during the pandemic, including being confined...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body. In an executive order signed Wednesday, Trump ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered his administration to investigate former President Joe Biden's use of an autopen to sign pardons and other documents, increasing the pressure on his predecessor as House Republicans also requested interviews with members of Biden's inner circle. An autopen i...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is resurrecting the travel ban policy from his first term, signing a proclamation Wednesday night preventing people from a dozen countries from entering the United States. The countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, I...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration must give migrants sent to an El Salvador prison a chance to challenge their removals. U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg said that people who were sent to the prison in March under an 18th-century wartime law haven't been able to for...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A federal judge issued an order Wednesday to prevent the deportation of the wife and five children of an Egyptian man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted a request from the family of Mohamed Sabry Soliman to halt deportation proce...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Wednesday demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it's not linked to the release of hostages. The resolution also does not condemn Hamas' deadly attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, or say the militant group m...