KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Legacy Wheelchair Tennis Tournament is underway at the Kamloops Tennis Centre, located at 758 Front St.Beginning Friday (July 5), 24 players from Canada and around the globe are competing for the $3,000 prize and the top spot at Kamloops' annual tournament. Michelle McDonell, executive director ...

MERRITT, B.C. - A family in Merritt is trying to keep their daughter's name out there, as she's now been missing for five months. According to RCMP, 27-year-old Tara Moran was last seen in Merritt on January 31 and was reported missing in February this year. Her parents, Deb and Patrick Moran, say it's been a painful s...

KAMLOOPS - A heat warning has been expanded to include the majority of the southern Interior of B.C., including Kamloops, Merritt and the Shuswap.Environment Canada says the elevated temperatures expected in these areas through next week could present a moderate risk to public health.Once the calendar flips to Sunday (...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - For a second time this week, the emergency room at Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake will be closed overnight. Interior Health says emergency services will be temporarily unavailable as of 5:30 p.m. Friday (July 5) until 7:30 a.m. on Saturday (July 6). However, inpatient services at Carib...

VANCOUVER - A union representing ship and dock foremen in British Columbia has issued 72-hour strike notice against their employer. The BC Maritime Employers Association says ILWU Local 514 has served a notice of intended strike action against DP World Canada that will begin on Monday at 4:30 p.m. The association says ...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - For a second time this week, the emergency room at Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake will be closed overnight. Interior Health says emergency services will be temporarily unavailable as of 5:30 p.m. Friday (July 5) until 7:30 a.m. on Saturday (July 6). However, inpatient services at Carib...

VANCOUVER - A housing project in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is being expanded from one city lot to four and will include community health and social services. B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says the proposed development at the 300-block of East Hastings Street at the former site of a Buddhist temple will be expan...

VANCOUVER - Pro-Palestinian protesters occupying university sites in British Columbia say they'll continue to act on campuses after a court injunction that led to the clearing out of a similar encampment in Toronto this week. But the number of tents and protesters at the University of British Columbia camp, which had b...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's power provider is planning to spend more than $3 billion on capital projects to upgrade and expand the electricity grid on Vancouver Island. Energy Minister Josie Osborne says the BC Hydro projects will create thousands of jobs over the next decade and ensure the region has enough clean, a...

A heat wave is settling over parts of British Columbia with Environment Canada warning of very high temperatures stretching into next week. The agency has expanded a series of heat warnings to include the Sunshine Coast and Howe Sound, where daytime highs are forecasted to reach 32 C. The hottest temperatures are expec...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - One of the jurors hearing evidence in the murder-conspiracy trial surrounding the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., has been dismissed for falling asleep in the courtroom. Court of King's Bench Justice David Labrenz told jurors Friday he became aware the female juror was nodding off during testimony...

VANCOUVER - Pro-Palestinian protesters occupying university sites in British Columbia say they'll continue to act on campuses after a court injunction that led to the clearing out of a similar encampment in Toronto this week. But the number of tents and protesters at the University of British Columbia camp, which had b...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Roman Catholic Church has been ordered to pay settlements totalling $104 million to 292 survivors of historical abuse in Newfoundland and Labrador, including those at the now infamous Mount Cashel orphanage in St. John's. An insolvency monitor's report published today says individual claim entitl...

QUEBEC CITY, Que. - The Quebec government is calling for a Supreme Court of Canada judge to recuse himself as the court deliberates whether to hear an appeal involving the province's secularism law, known as Bill 21. The province says Justice Mahmud Jamal doesn't have the "required impartiality" to hear the c...

Global streaming services such as Netflix and Disney Plus are challenging a regulatory directive under the Online Streaming Act to contribute money to Canada's broadcast sector, including for local news. Motion Picture Association-Canada, which also represents platforms HAYU, Sony's Crunchyroll, Paramount Plus and Plut...

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are vowing a future Pierre Poilievre-led government would remove the man the Liberals just appointed to lead the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Birju Dattani is to take over as the chief commissioner next month for a five-year term but Melissa Lantsman, one the party's deputy le...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian's lead against hard-liner Saeed Jalili widened early Saturday to over 2 million votes as counting continued in Iran's presidential runoff election. Mohsen Eslami, an election spokesperson, said Pezeshkian had 11.1 million votes, leading Jalili's 9...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban on Friday said they submitted enough signatures to get the measure on the November ballot. Arkansans for Limited Government submitted petitions with at least the 90,704 signatures from registered voters needed to qualify. Election off...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort Friday, defiantly declared that "I'm staying in the race" during a campaign rally in a critical battleground state as he prepares to sit down for a network television interview where his every answer sure to be scrutin...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Two people were killed and three others injured in an attack that broke out during a neighborhood Fourth of July gathering in a Southern California beach city, police said Friday. The county coroner removed two bodies Friday morning from the crime scene, which encompassed a grassy median...

LONDON (AP) - Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz came back to eliminate Frances Tiafoe 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 to reach Wimbledon's fourth round on Friday in an entertaining match between two pals that was filled with moments of brilliance and a series of momentum swings. The third-seeded Alcaraz was outplayed for s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas' highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers and banning a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access. The Kansas Supreme Court's rulings in two ...