KAMLOOPS - Residents clapped and cheered as Pine Grove Seniors Community staff kept them warm in blankets as the rain held off just long enough for the clear passage of sentimentality. "It evokes all kinds of emotion for them to see all these old cars," Pine Grove staff member Paula Popadynetz said. "Emo...

KAMLOOPS - Scott Clark will continue on as head coach of the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack women's basketball team for the 2025-26 Canada West season. Clark took over from Todd Warnick in December after the latter went on a personal leave. Prior to that, Clark had been head coach of the TRU men's basketball...

MERRITT - Much like school districts across the province, the Nicola-Similkameen Board of Education (SD58) has been forced to make some hard decisions, as it needs to subtract $1.5 million from its budget for the upcoming school year. With declining enrollment across the district, the board is also now starting the pro...

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops says the Pacific Way (Exit 367) off-ramp is scheduled to re-open by 12:00 p.m. Friday (May 16), ending a two-month long closure due to construction.Crews began work to add a second left turn lane on March 14 of this year, and they're still expected to complete all of the work by June 30 ...

BURNABY - A coroner's jury in British Columbia has recommended high schools provide resuscitation training and demonstrations of how to use naloxone after ruling that the overdose death of a University of Victoria student last year was accidental. The inquest found 18-year-old Sidney McIntyre-Starko died of brain injur...

VICTORIA - A council made of forestry professionals, educators, union and former industry officials has been brought together to find a balance between healthy forests and a prosperous industry. The B.C. government announced the Provincial Forest Advisory Council on Thursday, appointed under the co-operation agreement ...

VANCOUVER - The winner of what the B.C. Lottery Corp. calls the biggest jackpot ever awarded to a single person in Canada says that winning the $80 million prize is "life-changing." Justin Simporios from Surrey, B.C., fought back tears of joy at a news conference on Thursday, saying he has already resigned fr...

VICTORIA - The BC Prosecution Service says an officer with the Central Saanich Police Service has been charged for driving without due care and attention. The charge against Cpl. Phillip DiBattista is in relation to a crash with a cyclist that happened on May 21, 2024. The prosecution service says B.C.'s police watchdo...

VICTORIA - (UPDATE 5:30 p.m.): First Nations leaders are calling on B.C. Premier David Eby to immediately "kill" two pieces of legislation that would fast-track projects in response to U.S. government tariffs, with one leader saying they could take the government to court if it presses ahead. Robert Phillips ...

BURNABY - Mounties in Burnaby, B.C., have recovered pallets of beer, food and enough toilet paper and paper towels to supply a town in an investigation into the theft of shipping containers. RCMP say in a news release that three containers that held merchandise worth about $125,000 were stolen last August from a busine...

BURNABY - A coroner's jury in British Columbia has recommended high schools provide resuscitation training and demonstrations of how to use naloxone after ruling that the overdose death of a University of Victoria student last year was accidental. The inquest found 18-year-old Sidney McIntyre-Starko died of brain injur...

A representative for Amnesty International Canada says the country isn't doing enough to stop the exploitation of temporary foreign workers brought in on visas that keep them tied to one employer. Ketty Nivyabandi, the group's English section secretary-general, says being at the mercy of one employer allows migrant wor...

Conservative MP Scott Anderson says he's trying to stop the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from killing a flock of hundreds of ostriches on a farm in his riding, after a Federal Court ruling this week that the cull could proceed. Anderson says he visited Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood in southeast B.C. on Wednesda...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog is awaiting word on whether another oversight agency will investigate potential police misconduct in the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun. It has been five years since the provincial government promised an investigation of police actions in the case of Assoun, who spent 17 year...

FERGUS FALLS - U.S. attorneys have filed sentencing submissions for two men convicted after a family froze to death while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba. A Minnesota jury found Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel guilty of human-smuggling charges after the parents and two children from India were...

WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration's latest threat assessment says fentanyl "super laboratories" in Canada are a growing source of concern. U.S. President Donald Trump has used cross-border traffic in the deadly drug to justify hitting imports of Canadian goods with tariffs. The an...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A suspected serial killer once scrutinized for a possible link to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the nation in the 1990s was executed Thursday in Florida for the murder of a woman found dead in a Tampa motel room. Glen Rogers, 62, received a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Military commanders will be told to identify troops in their units who are transgender or have gender dysphoria, then send them to get medical checks in order to force them out of the service, officials said Thursday. A senior defense official laid out what could be a complicated and lengthy new proce...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered at least 36 in-custody police deaths that should have been considered homicides, state officials announced Thursday following a comprehensive review of such cases spurred by widespread concerns about the former state medical examiner's testimony in the ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure Thursday prohibiting local governments from adding fluoride to their water systems, making it the second state in the country after Utah to implement a statewide ban on the mineral. DeSantis signed the bill at a public event in Dade City...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday he will send a team headed by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov to the Turkish city of Istanbul for peace talks with a Russian delegation. Zelenskyy told a news conference in the Turkish capital Ankara that the Russian delegation doesn't include &...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - A Wisconsin judge pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that she helped a man who is in the country illegally evade U.S. immigration authorities looking to arrest him in her courtroom. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan entered the plea during an arraignment in federal court, an early step in...