SICAMOUS, B.C. - Travelers passing through Sicamous are being advised of a trio of overnight closures for the R.W. Bruhn Bridge through the end of August. The B.C. government says the Trans-Canada Highway at R.W. Bruhn Bridge will be closed from 10:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 17, 24 and 31 to accommodate essential con...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The City of Williams Lake is praising the efforts of their newly created Rapid Response Crew during wildfire season.The City said Williams Lake Fire Department's Rapid Response Crew was implemented on July 24 and has responded to about 30 calls in 18 days.Protective Services Director and Williams ...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - Businesses in Salmon Arm will be able to take advantage of a municipal fund aimed at improving the city's downtown core.This comes as Salmon Arm City Council passed the Business Improvement Area (BIA) Bylaw No. 4746, renewing the Downtown Salmon Arm Business Improvement Area for seven years, from Jan...

CLINTON, B.C. - With the evacuation order on the Village of Clinton downgraded to an alert, Interior Health (IH) has resumed its services in the community as residents return home.IH said services resumed on Sunday (Aug. 16) after being suspended on July 24 due to the wildfire risk in the region.While some services are...

SUMMERLAND - More evacuees can make their way home to Summerland, B.C., after a set of three evacuation orders were downgraded to evacuation alerts near Okanagan Lake. The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen says the alerts are in effect for prop...

PORT COQUITLAM - A fire in Port Coquitlam, B.C., has destroyed two homes and sent one firefighter to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Jason Marshall, deputy fire chief with the Port Coquitlam Fire Department, says officers received repo...

VANCOUVER - Mike Stohler, who runs a winery with his wife in Summerland, B.C., finally got a chance to visit his vineyards, nearly a week after being evacuated due to the ferocious Bald Range wildfire that threatened the town. Stohler was allowed back ...

MAPLE RIDGE - Conservation officers in British Columbia say a black bear that was killed by RCMP officers last Sunday was, "in fact," responsible for an attack that had left a three-year-old girl with injuries. Conservation officers took to social med...

CLINTON - At the age of 52, Steve Larabie is facing the daunting task of rebuilding his home and business from scratch after losing everything when ferocious wildfires roared into the outskirts of Clinton, B.C., last month. "It's all gone. I have noth...

VANCOUVER - Helen Benallick said she was fast asleep with her husband at their home in Summerland, B.C., last week when she was woken up by neighbours ringing her doorbell. They told the couple they needed to escape the Bald Range wildfire that was rac...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 3.0 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previo...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 3.0 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 4.2 per cent (3.8) - Prince Edward Island: 4.0 per cent (3.8) - N...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... LeBlanc meets with U.S. trade representative as tariff deadline looms Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc spent the weekend in Washington to work with Donal...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to make an announcement about energy security after reports that Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have reached a deal regarding Churchill Falls. Carney's public itinerary says he will be joined by Newfound...

OTTAWA - July's rebound in gas prices pushed the annual rate of inflation up to three per cent last month even as there were signs cost pressures were easing at the grocery store, Statistics Canada said Monday. The acceleration in the consumer price in...

MONTREAL - In a biomedicine laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal, animal protein grows in a bubbling orange solution as researchers in white lab coats take samples with large syringes. Neatly-labelled glass bottles filled with clear liquid line the she...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defame...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said it declined to help denuclearize Iran. Trump said in a social medi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83. He died at...

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drone...

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Russia's Ministry of Defense said that it had destroyed 822 drones overnight, with 600 headed toward...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - A passenger bus traveling on a highway in Hungary early Sunday went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing 12 and injuring others, police said. The bus, which was carrying a group of Polish tou...