KAMLOOPS - The holiday season is approaching and the Salvation Army in Kamloops has kicked off its annual Kettle campaign. Local organizers were set up at Sarah's Independent Grocer Wednesday morning (Nov. 13) to receive the first cash and card-tap donations. Major Tracy Goyak says the money given to the kettles is use...

KAMLOOPS - Tuesday night (Nov. 12) was a special one for Pacific Sport Interior BC as the organization celebrated its 30th anniversary. The night also provided the partner Operation Red Nose the chance to launch this year's campaign.Supporters gathered at the Sandman Centre for some drinks and appetizers to mark the 30...

TK'EMLUPS - Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc held its chief and council election over the weekend with Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir securing another term in office. Casimir received 282 votes or 58 per cent, defeating challenger Joshua Gottfriedson, who received 201 votes. The seven seats on council went to Nikki Fraser,...

KAMLOOPS - Drago's AutoPro, a longtime fixture on the North Shore, is grappling with a situation that's becoming all too familiar for local businesses. Maciej Kucko, co-owner of Drago's, feels like much of his time is spent cleaning up garbage and vandalism at his business. "People lighting fires and defecating on...

VANCOUVER - A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged." The Federal Court law...

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says a man from Abbotsford, B.C., has pleaded guilty to two counts of trafficking in black bear paws. A statement from the service says Hong Tao Yang entered his pleas in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., courtroom on Wednesday, where he was ordered to pay a ...

SQUAMISH, B.C. - Police in Squamish, B.C., have issued a warning against vigilante action over safety concerns they say are circulating on social media. The statement from Sea to Sky RCMP says police want to "reassure" residents of the community about 60 kilometres north of Vancouver that "there is no cu...

Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu. The agency says in a statement that testing at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirms the teen did contract the H5N1 av...

VICTORIA - Former British Columbia premier John Horgan loomed large over the swearing-in ceremony for 47 New Democrat members of the legislature, a day after his death. Before the ceremony, Songhees Nation elder Butch Dick sang a prayer and offered words of sympathy for the family of Horgan, who died Tuesday at the age...

TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized three influenza vaccines that could be used if bird flu became a pandemic, the agency says. The federal government also has an agreement with vaccine manufacturer GSK for domestic vaccine production that could be accelerated if needed, the Public Health Agency of Canada told The C...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Rent inflation to slow, Desjardins predicts The rate at which Canadian rental prices are increasing should slow in the coming years as the government's plan to cut back immigration numbers takes hold, a new report from Desjardins ...

OTTAWA - The rate at which Canadian rental prices are increasing should slow in the coming years as the government's plan to cut back immigration numbers takes hold, a new report from Desjardins says. "Our outlook is for a slowdown in the pace of rent inflation over the next few years, in line with a rising unempl...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to leave this afternoon for the APEC summit in Lima, Peru, followed by the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Both summits aim to improve the multilateral institutions that have drawn skepticism from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. In Peru, Trudeau will take part in m...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts are predicting. The threat of the tariff is causing a lot of concern north of the border, where the Canadian Chamber of...

VANCOUVER - A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged." The Federal Court law...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland isn't showing signs of worry that the U.S. can now launch a trade challenge against the Liberal government's controversial digital services tax. The Liberals are slapping a three-per-cent tax on the Canadian revenues of digital giants, which will affect major U.S. tech compan...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party's sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump. A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the...

PHOENIX (AP) - Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani won reelection to a U.S. House seat in southeastern Arizona in a rematch that pitted him against the Democrat he narrowly beat two years ago. Ciscomani defeated Democrat Kirsten Engel in the race for Arizona's 6th Congressional District, which runs from Tucson east to the N...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party's sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump. A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party's power and follow through on promises of economic recovery. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on Sept. 21 in a victo...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party's power and follow through on promises of economic recovery. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on Sept. 21 in a victo...

SAO PAULO (AP) - At least one explosion outside Brazil's Supreme Court killed one person and forced the justices and staff to evacuate the building in the capital of Brasilia, police and firefighters said. A police statement said an artifact exploded outside the court without providing more details. Local firefighters ...