KAMLOOPS - The CFJC Boogie the Bridge goes Sunday (April 26), beginning from Riverside Park. Organizer Jo Berry says participants are entered in runs and walks of different distances - ranging from five kilometres to 21 kilometres."This year, we've upped the ante in the parking lot party. We have food trucks, Hand...

KAMLOOPS - Luke Verhoeff of Kamloops was honoured last week at the Canadian Autism Leadership Summit in Ottawa. He is the fifth winner of the Jim and Ginette Munson Autism Leadership Award, which is presented to an autistic person in Canada who demonstrates leadership, determination and values that reflect the Munsons...

KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University president Airini has said institutional goals include patenting and monetizing artificial-intelligence creations and becoming one of Canada's leading universities for innovation. Perhaps one of Anthony Aighobahi's students will cash in on the next game-changing invention. "Tha...

KAMLOOPS - The Propolis Cooperative Housing Society is moving ahead with plans for a new four-storey, 27-unit apartment building on St. Paul Street in downtown Kamloops. Located at the intersection of St. Paul Street and 10th Avenue, Propolis expects to begin construction as soon as this year. If all goes well, it also...

British Columbia's Transportation Ministry says a landslide in the northeastern community of Old Fort has shifted the road 62 metres downslope since Sunday. The ministry says the 400-metre-wide slide, which destroyed part of Old Fort Road. The Peace R...

OTTAWA - Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said on Friday that the federal government has approved Enbridge Inc.'s $4-billion Sunrise natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia. Here's a quick rundown of the project and why it's important. What is the...

VANCOUVER - The actions of a former RCMP officer accused of violating security law for the benefit of Chinese authorities were an affront to Canadian sovereignty, a Crown prosecutor told British Columbia Supreme Court on Friday. William Majcher pleaded...

WILLIAMS LAKE - An evacuation alert has been issued in British Columbia's Cariboo region for a handful of properties as a wildfire burns out of control at the start of the province's wildfire season. The Xeni Gwet'in First Nation, the Tsilhqot'in natio...

CALGARY - The federal government has approved a $4-billion plan by Enbridge Inc. to expand an existing natural gas pipeline in British Columbia, a move one executive says demonstrates a greater "sense of purpose" from Ottawa toward bolstering Canada's ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... CRTC chair defends Online Streaming Act work after critics say regulator too slow CRTC chairperson Vicky Eatrides says the regulator would like to move faster to m...

MONTREAL - Quebec's bar association has suspended the law licence of the owner of an Old Montreal building who is facing manslaughter charges in the deaths of seven people who died there in a 2023 fire. The notice on the Barreau du Québec's website say...

OTTAWA - Jason Stanley moved from the United States to Canada last September, leaving behind a high-profile position at Yale to take a job at the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto. The fascism researcher said he made the move for one reason: aca...

OTTAWA - One-hundred-year-old Roy Allen is set to make history next month by becoming the first centenarian to walk 5K for the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. Allen is walking to raise funds for several seniors' organizations, including some that have he...

CALGARY - A federal judge has granted a last-minute reprieve for the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash, temporarily preventing his imminent deportation to India. Lawyers for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu appeared in Federal Court on ...

TORONTO - The Globe and Mail was the top winner at the 2025 National Newspaper Awards on Friday, while The Canadian Press won several awards including project of the year. The awards were handed out at a gala in Toronto. The Globe led with eight wins...

OTTAWA - The only NDP MP from Quebec will be announcing his plan to leave Parliament and run provincially for the Québec solidaire as early as Sunday. Alexandre Boulerice's planned move was confirmed to La Presse Canadienne today by an internal source ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Gunmen attacked several locations in Mali's capital and other cities early Saturday in a possible coordinated assault, residents and authorities said. Mali's army said in a statement that "unidentified armed terroris...

NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) - A volunteer firefighter died battling a wildfire in northern Florida while more than 120 homes have been destroyed in southeast Georgia and thousands more remain threatened by two large blazes, one of which investigators suspect was...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. The move, announced Friday and first reported...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 became an enduring image of the Ci...

The body of a Bangladeshi doctoral student who went missing with his girlfriend from the University of South Florida was found on a bridge over Tampa Bay, and his roommate has been taken into custody, law enforcement authorities said Friday. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order suspending asylum access at the southern border of the U.S., a key pillar of the Republican president's plan to crack down on migration. A three...