KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has begun to look for and evaluate locations where new misting stations will be set up to help people cool off in the hot summer months.Emergency Preparedness Manager Ty Helgason says the City is expected to install around three to four misting stations this year, if council approves the...

KAMLOOPS - New Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged to eliminate the consumer carbon, with British Columbia Premier David Eby stating he will now scrap the April 1 increase and remove the provincially implemented tax. The difference should be quickly noticeable for Canadians, according to Joel Wood, an Environment Ec...

KAMLOOPS - One man was arrested after Kamloops Mounties were called out to a weapons threats report Monday morning (March 17). In an email to CFJC Today, Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Crystal Evelyn says officers were called to the 800-block of Evergreen Place around 7:00 a.m. Monday for the weapons report, but didn'...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire and Rescue (KFR) says smoke rising from the Juniper Ridge area Monday (March 17) is from a controlled burn that is taking place above Galore Crescent.pic.twitter.com/3qdjDuUblm— Kamloops Fire Rescue (@KamFire) March 17, 2025 There have been a number of controlled burns either announced or...

VANCOUVER - Immigration lawyers say the case of a Vancouver woman detained in the United States over a denied visa is a warning to other Canadians that it's no longer business as usual when crossing the border for work. Jasmine Mooney returned to Vancouver this weekend after she was detained for about 12 days when she ...

VANCOUVER - An 83-year-old British Columbia man has returned a book to the University of B.C. Library 64 years late, but he had a good excuse. Librarian Susan Parker received a package from Robert Murray in the mail with the book, a $100 cheque for late fees and an explanation. Murray's letter says the book, a 1931 edi...

Empty shelves and idle escalators greeted shoppers Monday as they poked through Hudson's Bay stores looking for bargains and perhaps a piece of history. In Edmonton, some racks at two Bay locations were picked clean as a mere handful of older men and women took advantage of 40, 50, 60 and even 70 per cent discounts. Th...

Fraser Health says a case of lead poisoning in Surrey, B.C., has been connected to unauthorized Ayurvedic alternative medicine, prompting a warning about the products being sold at a grocery store in the city. The health authority says the products that were sold at the All in One Wholesale Cash and Carry on 85th Ave. ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is setting annual rate increases for electricity for the next two years in response to rising demand for power along with economic uncertainty stemming from actions south of the border, Energy Minister Adrian Dix said. Dix announced Monday that the New Democrat government is submitting a &q...

POWELL RIVER, B.C. - The Tla'amin First Nation and forestry giant Domtar have reached an agreement for the nation to reacquire a large portion of a historic village site along the B.C. Sunshine Coast. The nation and Domtar issued a joint statement saying the two sides took part in a ceremony to sign the agreement that ...

LONDON - Prime Minister Mark Carney says United States President Donald Trump will have to stop his "disrespectful" comments about Canada before the two countries can have comprehensive bilateral conversations about trade and security."We've called out those comments. They're disrespectful, they're not h...

VANCOUVER - Immigration lawyers say the case of a Vancouver woman detained in the United States over a denied visa is a warning to other Canadians that it's no longer business as usual when crossing the border for work. Jasmine Mooney returned to Vancouver this weekend after she was detained for about 12 days when she ...

The B.C. Court of Appeal has denied a father's bid to prevent his children getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus. The court ruling says the father applied in court early last year to stop the children's mother from having them vaccinated, but a judge dismissed the bid and prohibited the father from "...

Empty shelves and idle escalators greeted shoppers Monday as they poked through Hudson's Bay stores looking for bargains and perhaps a piece of history. In Edmonton, some racks at two Bay locations were picked clean as a mere handful of older men and women took advantage of 40, 50, 60 and even 70 per cent discounts. Th...

VANCOUVER - An 83-year-old British Columbia man has returned a book to the University of B.C. Library 64 years late, but he had a good excuse. Librarian Susan Parker received a package from Robert Murray in the mail with the book, a $100 cheque for late fees and an explanation. Murray's letter says the book, a 1931 edi...

Manitoba RCMP confirmed Monday that a second set of remains found at a landfill north of Winnipeg have been identified as belonging to Marcedes Myran, one of two slain First Nations women who search teams have been looking for at the site since December. The remains of the other woman, Morgan Harris, were recovered fro...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine months ago. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bid farewell to the International Space Station - their home since last spr...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Gaza's Health Ministry says a wave of Israeli strikes across the territory has killed at least 200 people. Khalil Degran, a spokesman for the ministry based at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, provided the updated figure early Tuesday. Wafaa Shurafa And Josef Federman, The ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel launched new strikes against Hamas and promised 'increasing military force' after talks on on further hostage releases stalled. Early Friday morning, Israel's Prime Minister's office said it instructed the army to strike Hamas across Gaza. The statement said it was because of Ham...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Employees of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency. The organization's CEO, George Moose, said, "DOGE has broken into our buildin...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured key areas of Congo's mineral-rich east said Monday they were withdrawing peace talks this week with the Congolese government, saying that international sanctions that have been imposed on the group's members undermine such dialogue. The talks scheduled to star...

BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge wants to know why a doctor from Lebanon with a U.S. visa was deported, after he ordered that she not be removed until he could hear her case. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, had been granted the visa on March 11 and arrived at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday, according to a complaint...