SALMON ARM, B.C. - Salmon Arm RCMP are reminding residents to be extra cautious when using online marketplace platforms after a man and a woman in the Shuswap were scammed out of hundreds of dollars worth of items last month. In each incident, reported to Salmon Arm RCMP on Feb. 9 and 23, 2025, the seller from Facebook...

LYTTON, B.C. - A suspect was arrested, and multiple guns and ammunition were seized following a search warrant near the Village of Lytton. Lillooet-Lytton RCMP say officers from its detachment and the South East District Emergency Response Team executed a search warrant in a community near Lytton without incident Sunda...

MERRITT - There will be another emergency room closure at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt Sunday (March 2) night - the sixth closure of 2025.Interior Health says the facility will be unavailable from 6:00 p.m. Sunday, March 2 until 7:00 a.m. Monday, March 3. The ER was closed for the same 13-hour period Saturday ...

VANCOUVER - The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of BC (CFSEU-BC) says one man is facing drugs and weapons charges connected to an alleged drug trafficking network in the Lower Mainland and the Interior, including Kamloops.In a news release dated Feb. 28, CFSEU-BC - the RCMP's anti-gang unit - says a series of ...

An earthquake has shaken awake some B.C. residents, the latest in a series of tremors for the province. Earthquakes Canada says the 4.1 magnitude earthquake was detected at 5:02 a.m. PST roughly 44 kilometres northeast of Victoria, B.C., and 75 kilometres southeast of Vancouver but it isn't believed to have caused any ...

Two Vancouver visual effects supervisors, Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe, are part of a team that has won an Oscar for Denis Villeneuve's "Dune: Part Two." More to come. Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press

SURREY, B.C. - Six people have been displaced and one cat has been rescued in Surrey, B.C., on Sunday morning after a home was destroyed by fire. Surrey Fire Service assistant chief Mike McNamara says they received a call about a house fire early in the morning on the corner of Fraser Highway and 168 Street in the city...

Bo Hedges' parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near their log home.It sounds peaceful - but Hedges said earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry operations are "stre...

NANAIMO, B.C. - "Team Rustad" has prevailed at the B.C. Conservatives' first annual general meeting since storming into the province's mainstream political scene in last year's election and becoming the official Opposition.Saturday's meeting came amid divisions within the party that Leader John Rustad depicte...

NANAIMO - The fledgling B.C. Conservative Party will hold its annual general meeting this weekend as members try to find their feet, one week into the provincial legislative session, a senior politician and Conservative member said. Peter Milobar, the Conservative MLA for Kamloops, said in an interview that the party a...

OTTAWA - The federal government is extending a tax break for those investing in critical mineral exploration. Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson made the announcement today at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto. The 15 per cent tax cut is being extended for two more ye...

OTTAWA - Next-generation 911 service - which would allow Canadians to send texts or video to summon help - won't be implemented for another two years. The CRTC had set Tuesday as the deadline for transitioning to next-generation 911. But the telecom regulator now says it has moved that deadline to March 2027. It says t...

OTTAWA - Former Prince Edward Island premier Dennis King has been appointed Canada's new ambassador to Ireland. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office announced the appointment today. King abruptly resigned as premier and Progressive Conservative leader last month, saying the decision was in the best interests of his f...

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper is taking shots at Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney's economic record. Harper accuses Carney of taking unearned credit for steering the Canadian economy out of the global financial crisis more than 15 years ago. While Harper appointed Carney to run the Bank of Can...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trudeau set to visit King Charles before trip home Prime Minister Justin Trudeau planned to meet with King Charles today before leaving London for Ottawa. Trudeau was in London for a weekend security summit, making Canada the only...

LONDON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau planned to meet with King Charles today before leaving London for Ottawa. Trudeau was in London for a weekend security summit, making Canada the only non-European nation represented in talks on how to ensure a possible Ukraine ceasefire actually holds. Analysts say Trudeau's visit...

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis suffered two new episodes of acute respiratory crises Monday and was put back on noninvasive mechanical ventilation, the Vatican said. Francis had inhaled "copious" amounts of mucus in another setback in what has become a more than two-week battle to overcome a complex respiratory inf...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday for suggesting that end of Russia's war against Ukraine is still likely "very, very far away." "This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for mu...

WAUKEGAN, Ill (AP) - The man accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens more at a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb pleaded guilty Monday to murder and attempted murder, just moments before opening arguments in his trial. Appearing in a Lake County circuit courtroom, Robert E. Crimo III, 23, wit...

MANNHEIM, Germany (AP) - Police in the western German city of Mannheim have asked the public to stay away from the downtown area and keep inside their homes. Mannheim is a city of about 300,000 people located south of Frankfurt. Police would not disclose what prompted the large law enforcement presence in the city cent...

VIENNA (AP) - Christian Stocker was sworn in as Austrian chancellor on Monday as a new government, a three-party coalition, took office after a five-month wait following elections in September. The new government will have to deal with rising unemployment, a recession and a creaking budget. Its coalition agreement, pre...

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis remained in stable condition and didn't need any mechanical ventilation on Sunday, the Vatican said. It was a sign that his respiratory function was improving as he continues his recovery from double pneumonia and a respiratory crisis. The 88-year-old pope did continue to receive high flow supp...