KAMLOOPS - The 2024 edition of Wildlights will get take over the BC Wildlife Park in Kamloops in just over four weeks time, on Dec. 13.BC Wildlife Park General Manager Glenn Grant says there will also be several new additions during the 27th edition of the annual holiday lights display, which features well over one mil...

KAMLOOPS - The world's largest ridesharing company will start its engines in Kamloops and throughout B.C. in the new year.As of this week, Uber is recruiting drivers across the province. Once it reaches the right threshold - expected to be some time in early 2025 - it plans to open its popular app to riders."The n...

KAMLOOPS - An action film shot in Kamloops, Logan Lake and Cache Creek will be released in limited theatres across Canada next week. IndustryWorks Studios says the film Get Fast stars Lou Diamond Phillips of Young Guns and Stand and Deliver fame, along with Lee Majdoub, Fei Ren and James C. Clayton. Get Fast is about a...

KAMLOOPS - Social media and the internet have led to an increase in the spread of misinformation."Misinformation tends to play a lot on our emotions and our biases. And when those two things are in play, it's almost like our critical thinking brain switches off and we are unable to critically review the headline o...

TORONTO - People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu - or highly pathogenic avian influenza - since a B.C. teen became the first human to get the virus in Canada and is in hospital. It's not yet known how the teen got infected, but Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, said on Wednesday that ge...

VANCOUVER - One person was taken into custody over what Vancouver Police say is part of a hate-crime investigation. A statement from the department says officers from its Major Crime Section and Emergency Response Team executed a search warrant on a home in the 1800 block of East 1st Avenue on Thursday. Police say that...

British Columbia's chief veterinarian has told clinics that treat wild birds that they must establish protocols to prevent the spread of avian flu, warning of the risk of human exposure to the illness. Dr. Theresa Burns says in a letter to vets last week that reporting of sick and dead wild birds across the province ha...

WHITEHORSE - Yukon says its Communicable Disease Control and the territory's chief medical officer have confirmed a case of whooping cough on a flight from Whitehorse to Vancouver earlier this month. The territory says it is advising any passengers who took the Air North flight that left at 11:45 a.m. on Nov. 6 to moni...

VANCOUVER - The federal government is providing more than $574 million in financing to help build about 950 rental homes in Vancouver. The government says in a news release that a project on 42nd Avenue is one of four locations receiving funds through the Apartment Loan Construction Program, which offers repayable low-...

SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia's independent police watchdog has cleared officers of wrongdoing in a crash where three people were killed south of Kamloops in July of last year. A report from the Independent Investigations Office says a man was driving recklessly at a high rate of speed and was in the wrong lane on Hi...

Canada Post workers are on strike after failing to reach a negotiated agreement with their employer. Canadian Union of Postal Workers says approximately 55,000 workers are striking, claiming little progress has been made in the bargaining process. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers issued a 72-hour strike notice earl...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada Post workers go on strike Friday Canada Post workers are on strike after failing to reach a negotiated agreement with their employer. Canadian Union of Postal Workers says approximately 55-thousand workers are striking, cla...

OTTAWA - A stolen portrait of Winston Churchill that was swapped with a dodgy forgery during the pandemic returns to its rightful place today, after two Ottawa police detectives travelled to Rome to retrieve it. The original artwork will be returned to its spot on the reading-room wall in the posh Fairmont Châtea...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Peru, kicking off five days of meetings with leaders from around the globe as the world braces for the looming return of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. The meetings come as emerging powers like China vie for influence in South America, and as Canada clings to global trad...

Canada Post workers are on strike after failing to reach a negotiated agreement with their employer. More coming. Canadian Press Staff, The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - One person was taken into custody over what Vancouver Police say is part of a hate-crime investigation. A statement from the department says officers from its Major Crime Section and Emergency Response Team executed a search warrant on a home in the 1800 block of East 1st Avenue on Thursday. Police say that...

MADRID (AP) - At least 10 people died in a blaze at a nursing home in Zaragoza, Spain, before firefighters managed to extinguish it , local authorities reported on Friday. Authorities were alerted of the blaze early Friday morning in Villa Franca de Ebro, about 30 minutes from the northeastern city. The cause of the fi...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during a presidential campaign. If it stands, the ruling could significantly ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during a presidential campaign. If it stands, the ruling could significantly ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The party of Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake took a large lead Friday in early results from the parliamentary elections, in an apparent solid mandate for his program for economic revival. Dissanayake's National People's Power Party won 15 of the 22 electoral ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The party of Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake took a large lead Friday in early results from the parliamentary elections, in an apparent solid mandate for his program for economic revival. Dissanayake's National People's Power Party won 15 of the 22 electoral ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The world's tallest teenager might have to wait a year to become the world's tallest college basketball player. Florida coach Todd Golden said Thursday that Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 freshman who owns a spot in the Guinness record book, is planning to redshirt. Had the popular Canadian played i...