MERRITT, B.C. - Merritt RCMP are asking for the public's help in finding a 61-year-old man who was last seen last week. In a news release issued Tuesday (April 30) morning, RCMP say Dale Revell was last seen on April 24 at around 6:30 p.m. near the 7-Eleven convenience store in Merritt. Revell is described as a white m...

KAMLOOPS - They've taken the idea of a 'group project' to new heights. Propolis and its community funded investment strategy have raised enough money to buy a property along Tranquille Road for a redevelopment project. The Propolis Cooperative Housing Society has been raising money through community bonds to purchase 4...

KAMLOOPS -- Michelle Peters is confident she can lead the cash-strapped Kamloops Broncos to financial safety. That's why she took over the junior football club's presidency in February. "Because I wanted there to be a junior football team," said Peters, noting the team came perilously close to folding last ye...

MERRITT B.C. - As the province of B.C. enters a new wildfire season with 110 active fires currently burning, the BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) is gearing up to supplement their ranks with 250 new recruits. Over the past month the new recruits have been put through boot camp both in Merritt and Prince George to prepare for...

VANCOUVER - London Drugs is investigating whether personal data was compromised in a cybersecurity incident that prompted the company to close all of its stores across Western Canada until further notice. A statement from the retailer and pharmacy chain says it will notify "affected individuals" if the probe ...

TORONTO - Airline caterer Gate Gourmet says its employees have voted in favour of a tentative deal with management, putting them back on the job as soon as today. About 800 food service workers at Toronto's Pearson airport went on strike on April 16, leaving thousands of passengers without meals. The employees cook, pa...

WHITE ROCK, B.C. - British Columbia homicide investigators say they have arrested a 28-year-old man in relation to a deadly stabbing near the White Rock pier last week. A statement from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the man from Surrey, B.C., was arrested Monday over the killing of 26-year-old Kulwind...

OTTAWA - The federal minister for addictions and mental health says it's too early to draw conclusions about drug decriminalization, after British Columbia asked Ottawa to scale back its pilot to help curb concerns over public drug use. Ya'ara Saks noted Monday that the province is only a year into its three-year pilot...

VANCOUVER - A B.C. government lawyer says court documents in a policing dispute with the City of Surrey contain significant allegations of harassment and bullying by the RCMP that should be kept from public view because they could cause "undue public concern." Trevor Bant was speaking at the start of a hearin...

LANGLEY, B.C. - British Columbia has secured eight new sites for its BC Builds program, in which land owned by the province, non-profits or community groups is pre-zoned to build middle-income rental housing. The new sites include three in the Township of Langley, one each in Kelowna and Kamloops, as well as properties...

OTTAWA - Canada's justice minister says the notwithstanding clause should only be used as a measure of last resort after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre suggested he wouldn't hesitate to wield it to enact tougher criminal laws. Poilievre told the Canadian Police Association in a speech on Monday that he would enac...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says all options to eliminate plastic waste are still on the table in negotiations for a global plastic treaty including putting legislated caps on how much plastic the world produces in the first place. But he says he can't predict where nations will land when they final...

OTTAWA - A new watchdog report says Canada's electronic spy agency needs to clearly spell out how its cyberoperations comply with international law. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency report delves into the Communications Security Establishment's defensive and active cyberoperations. Defensive cyberop...

VANCOUVER - London Drugs is investigating whether personal data was compromised in a cybersecurity incident that prompted the company to close all of its stores across Western Canada until further notice. A statement from the retailer and pharmacy chain says it will notify "affected individuals" if the probe ...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland intends to ask Parliament to approve proposed changes to capital gains tax rates in a stand-alone bill. The most controversial measure from her recent federal budget is not included in the motion she tabled today to introduce the federal budget in the House of Commons. It in...

OTTAWA - Canada's environment commissioner says Ottawa is failing to remediate contaminated sites in the North, leaving Indigenous peoples at risk and raising the government's own financial liability for the polluted areas. Commissioner Jerry DeMarco says in a new audit published today that the government's liability f...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's newly installed transitional presidential council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as the country's prime minister Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence. Belizaire replaces Michel Patric...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. Prosecutors had alleged 10 violations, but New York Judge Juan M. Merc...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's hush money trial resumes Tuesday with testimony from the third prosecution witness, Gary Farro, a banker who helped Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen open accounts. Cohen used one to buy the silence of porn performer Stormy Daniels. She alleged a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, whic...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The president of the top United Nations court opened a hearing Tuesday to deliver judges' decision on a request by Nicaragua to order a halt to German military and other aid to Israel amid the devastating Gaza conflict. Nicaragua, a longstanding ally of the Palestinians, alleges that Germa...

LONDON (AP) - A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a east London suburb, killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring four others, authorities said Tuesday. A 36-year-old man was arrested at the scene, police said, adding that the incident is not being treated as terror-related or a &q...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war, as cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam. Neta...