KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has opened applications for its new FireSmart rebate program. From Wednesday (March 18) until Nov. 15, 2026, owners of single-family homes or duplexes in Kamloops can apply for a rebate to cover 50 per cent of eligible improvements, up to a maximum of $1,000 per household per year, to ma...

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers fell to the Prince George Cougars 3-2 in a shootout Tuesday (March 17) in a potential playoff preview. The Blazers opened the scoring in the first period in Prince George. Harrison Brunicke set up Nathan Behm in the slot to make it 1-0 Blazers early in the first period in Prince George. ...

KAMLOOPS - The Pathways shelter has been in the spotlight over the past few weeks, with some members from the North Shore business community calling for the facility to be shut down. Lana Fine, the artistic director of the Same Sky Collective Society, says recent polling done by the North Shore BIA does not represent t...

LYTTON, B.C. - Four-and-a-half years after a wildfire tore through Lytton, British Columbians are finally getting a look into the challenges that plagued the village's rebuild as the Auditor General has released her report. The village was lost to fire on June 30, 2021. The fire razed 90 per cent of the buildings in th...

RICHMOND - Investigators say a fatal crash last April of a small plane on a training flight near Abbotsford, B.C., was likely caused by the pilot not following "best practices" for mountain flying. The Transportation Safety Board report was issued Wedn...

Lululemon Athletica Inc.'s founder says Tuesday's announcement that a longtime board member won't stand for re-election is "a step in the right direction," but his replacement is "underwhelming." Chip Wilson is pleased David Mussafer will step away fro...

VANCOUVER - The drenching for parts of British Columbia from an atmospheric river event is forecast to continue, adding to more than 200 millimetres of rain for coastal areas since it began earlier this week. Environment Canada says that by 5 p.m. Tues...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is asking his counterparts in Quebec and British Columbia to drop their electric-vehicle sales targets, saying they are making the country less competitive. In the fall, both provinces scaled back or dropped their pr...

Thousands of people attended the the Nowruz Fire Festival Tuesday in West Vancouver, B.C., marking the Persian New Year. Festivalgoers jumped over open fire pits at the event, hosted by the Iranian Canadian Congress of B.C., in a tradition that symboli...

A report from the office of British Columbia's auditor general says the province expected the small Village of Lytton to lead its own recovery from the wildfire that destroyed most of the community and killed two people in June 2021. But it says offici...

OTTAWA - Most Canadians want the government to ban or regulate the use of algorithms to set prices, a new poll suggests. Abacus Data polled 1,931 Canadians about algorithmic pricing, which it defined as prices adjusted in real time based on such factor...

Police say a 14-year-old in Manitoba and a 15-year-old in Nova Scotia are facing charges after allegedly plotting simultaneous attacks at their rural schools. They say officers received information Friday from Interpol and the FBI that two teens had be...

A Canadian computer scientist is one of this year's recipients of a prestigious award nicknamed the Nobel Prize of computing. Université de Montréal professor Gilles Brassard has won the A.M. Turing Prize with IBM Research scientist Charles H. Bennett....

SWIFT CURRENT - The leader of a cult that bedevilled residents of a Saskatchewan village for two years is no longer facing charges. Romana Didulo, head of the so-called Kingdom of Canada, had been charged with two offences but a court official in Swift...

TORONTO - Health Canada has announced a recall of Tim Hortons ceramic mugs because they may crack or break when filled with hot liquid. The affected mugs are white on the outside and pink on the inside, with a pink handle and a chocolate dip donut des...

WASHINGTON - Trade talks with Canada ahead of the mandatory review of the continental trade pact are lagging behind those with Mexico, United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday. Greer told Fox Business that talks are moving ah...

Labor rights leader Dolores Huerta says she was sexually abused by César Chavez amid reported allegations of abuse by others during his tenure as president of The United Farm Workers union. In a statement released Wednesday, Huerta said s...

Labor rights leader Dolores Huerta says she was sexually abused by César Chavez amid reported allegations of abuse by others during his tenure as president of The United Farm Workers union. On Wednesday, an investigation by the New York T...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday declared a temporary pause in escalating fighting, two days after Kabul blamed Islamabad for a deadly airstrike in the Afghan capital that it said killed hundreds of people at a drug rehab...

The World Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday put off a decision about barring government officials from major sporting events if their countries voluntarily withhold dues, pushing a potential conflict with President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials unt...

CAIRO (AP) - The latest heavy fighting between warring parties along Sudan 's border with Chad has killed 17 people and left many seriously wounded, a medical group said. Health authorities received 123 wounded people at a newly built hos...

MIAMI (AP) - Eugenio Suárez and his Venezuelan teammates stood on the stage behind second base with shiny medals draped over their proud chests, belting out their national anthem accompanied by tens of thousands of fans who remained in the ballpark a h...