KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Search and Rescue says two hikers were safely rescued from the Cinnamon Ridge Trail near Mount Mara after they got stuck Saturday (March 8) afternoon. Search Manager Alan Hobler told CFJC Today that KSAR crews were called out by the RCMP around 3:00 p.m. Saturday. "It turned out the hikers were...

KAMLOOPS - While the City of Kamloops and area has been experiencing a warmer than usual spell of springlike weather, its still very much winter on mountain highways.Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the Hope to Merritt section of the Coquihalla, with between 15 and 20 cm of snow expected to fall bet...

MERRITT - Make it nine emergency room closures at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt this year, and the second of this weekend. Interior Health says the emergency department in Merritt will once again be closed overnight, from 6:00 p.m. Saturday (March 8) until 7:00 a.m. Sunday. Unlike previous instances this year, ...

KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is on the lookout for a new Provost and a new President. This as Dr. Gillian Balfour, TRU's Provost and Vice-President Academic is moving to a similar job at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., on July 1. A Provost is a senior administrator at a university or college wh...

The 'Namgis First Nation on Vancouver Island says it wants a "thorough investigation" into a shipping accident involving a vessel owned by a fish farming company that required help from the Canadian Coast Guard. The First Nation says the vessel known as the Ronja Islander, owned by fish farming company Grieg ...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. government is providing details about its publicly-funded in vitro fertilization program, which was first announced last year.However, fertility specialists say some questions remain unanswered.Fertility coach Laura Spencer told Global News that major details still need to be finalized, including w...

70 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - RCMP say a 64-year-old Vancouver man is facing a second-degree murder charge in connection with the 2021 death of a man in 70 Mile House. In a news release Saturday (March 8), the Southeast District Major Crime Unit says Chinh Duc Vu was arrested on Friday and charged with the death of 52-year-old...

Uncertainty and the threat of looming tariffs against Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump is putting Canadian jobs at risk, and the federal government should shelve its Temporary Foreign Worker program in favour of investing in Canadian skilled workers, a B.C. construction union says. Ironworkers Local 97 business ma...

The B.C. Conservatives have lost three caucus members in a disastrous day for the Opposition, with the prospect of more to come when one of the rebels tries to form a new party next week.Opposition social development critic Tara Armstrong is the latest to quit, saying on social media that leader John Rustad has "a...

VANCOUVER - The federal Crown-Indigenous relations minister and the chief of the Musqueam Indian Band have initialled an agreement they say brings the band one step closer to self-governance. Minister Gary Anandasangaree told a ceremony on Friday afternoon that initialling the Musqueam self-government agreement is a &q...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Mark Carney succeeds Trudeau as Liberal leader Federal Liberals elected Mark Carney to lead their party into the next election in a resounding first-ballot victory on Sunday, putting him on track to soon become the next prime mini...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's interest rate announcement arrives on Wednesday in a cloud of uncertainty thanks to a shifting trade war with the United States. Most economists expect the central bank will deliver another quarter-point rate cut while it waits to see how long the dispute with Canada's largest trading part...

TORONTO - There had been warning signs for months. There were the reports of dangerous flu-like symptoms in Asia. News of the lockdown that kept tens of millions of people inside their homes in China. Here at home, the growing ubiquity of blue surgical masks. The advice to sing "Happy Birthday" while washing ...

OTTAWA - Liberal MPs are gathering on Parliament Hill this afternoon to huddle after the party selected its new leader, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney. Carney is heading into a day full of briefings and in the coming days will need to be sworn in as prime minister, tap his cabinet and sort out his party's b...

OTTAWA - Moments before the new Liberal leader was announced on Sunday, former prime minister Jean Chrétien took to the stage to reprimand U.S. President Donald Trump over tariffs and threats to Canada's sovereignty. Chrétien warned a crowd of Liberals gathered in Ottawa that Canada's "long and fruit...

OTTAWA - Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, who raised millions of dollars more than his opponents, has been elected the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Carney beat former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, former Government House Leader Karina Gould and Montreal businessman and former MP Frank Bay...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's military says North Korea has fired several ballistic missiles off the North's west coast. The South's military said the launches were detected on Monday but gave no further details about them. The launches came hours after the South Korean and U.S. militaries began their annual ...

A single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames Saturday in the parking lot of a retirement community near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania, and everyone on board survived, officials and witnesses said. The fiery crash happened around 3 p.m. just south of Lancaster Airport in Manheim...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romania's electoral body on Sunday rejected Calin Georgescu's candidacy in the presidential election rerun, after the far-right populist won the first round of last year's race before a top court annulled the election. The 62-year-old Georgescu filed his candidacy on Friday in the capital, Buc...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects of that are not immediately clear, but the territory's desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water. Sunday's announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the territory to over 2 ...

EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) - The cries of Liliana Olivero watching from Venezuela through a cellphone pierced through the somber Christian music and gusts of wind as her son's casket was lowered into the ground. Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Olivares died at 24, drowning in the Rio Grande not far from where he was buried Thursday...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Barcelona's home game against Osasuna has been postponed after the death of a member of Barcelona's medical staff, the Spanish club said. Fans were informed of the decision minutes before the game was scheduled to kick off Saturday night in Barcelona at Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium. Bar...