OGDEN, UTAH - Sweden's Niklas Edin claimed yet another men's world curling championship with a 9-6 win over Canada's Matt Dunstone on Saturday. The 40-year-old Edin extended the record for world titles to eight in his career. He's also skipped Sweden t...

KAMLOOPS - The BC Conservative Party has announced a $7,500 fine for the Peter Milobar leadership campaign for failing to met a payment deadline. All of the campaigns were required to pay the third fee of the race, totaling $40,000 on or before April 1, 2026. The Party's statement says Milobar's cheque arrived one day ...

VERNON - Regional mayors have highlighted their most pressing concerns and needs from the province.A media release from the Mayors of the Okanagan Thursday, April 2, stated a priority remained public safety, especially increased investment in crown prosecutors in the Interior.One aspect highlights a lack of a voluntary...

KAMLOOPS - A political party name change is a dangerous gambit, example one in British Columbia being the failed BC United experiment. During the BC Liberals leadership race, eventual winner Kevin Falcon promised to change the BC Liberal moniker, partly in an attempt to distance the group from the Federal Liberals led ...

SURREY - Two BC Highway Patrol officers were taken to hospital, including one with serious injuries, after crashing during a motorcycle training exercise in Surrey, B.C. A statement from the RCMP says officers from various units were participating in a...

VICTORIA - Police say a fire near a Victoria waste management facility has been ruled suspicious. The Victoria Police Department says the fire department called officers to attend the area of Bridge Street at Bay Steet on Friday in response to a fire n...

SURREY - Officials say they are monitoring the air quality after a barge fire in Surrey, B.C., sent large plumes of smoke into the air. Metro Vancouver Regional District said it's aware of a barge fire near the stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge, also known as River...

VANCOUVER - A Canadian mother and her seven-year-old daughter who spent three weeks detained at an immigration facility in Texas were released from detention on Thursday. Amelia Boultbee, an independent MLA who represents the electoral district of Pent...

A leaked transcript of a meeting between Indigenous leaders and British Columbia Premier David Eby, about his plan to suspend the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRIPA, shows them accusing him of "absolute betrayal" a...

VANCOUVER - Harjot Rai had three minutes to make his PowerPoint pitch. The subject? His cringing friend, Matt White. And the audience was a far cry from executives in a corporate boardroom. Instead, it was 150 strangers at the Hollywood Theatre in Vanc...

TABER - A southern Alberta community that lost its only two ice rinks after a Zamboni explosion has been named the Kraft Hockeyville 2026 winner. Taber, Alta., was one of two finalists, along with Tumbler Ridge, B.C., vying for the prize this year, whi...

Toronto's largest food bank says it's been dealing with crisis after crisis as the war in Iran makes it even more expensive to feed the thousands of food insecure Torontonians who rely on it. Neil Hetherington, CEO of the Daily Bread Food Bank, said f...

EDMONTON - Alberta's hospitals minister says a patient seeking care at a major Edmonton emergency room was taken into custody after attacking another patient on Friday. Matt Jones says in a social media post that Edmonton police and other hospital pers...

TORONTO - Fans of Italy's national soccer team may be disappointed their team won't be in the 2026 World Cup, but at least some of them got a consolation prize. More than 100 fans lined up outside Café Diplomatico on a grey Toronto morning for a Canad...

OTTAWA - The fallout from the war in the Middle East has led to cuts in helium supplies for health services in at least one province - and experts are warning that Canada still hasn't done enough to secure sovereignty over critical medical supply chain...

OTTAWA - President Donald Trump's comments to a British newspaper this week revived speculation about whether he is ready to pull the U.S. out of the NATO defensive pact, of which Canada is a member. Venting his frustration over what he claimed is the ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again. ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 rattled parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan late Friday, killing at least eight people in Afghanistan, authorities said. The region is...

BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's parliament on Friday elected Min Aung Hlaing, a general who ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in 2021 and kept an iron grip on power for the past five years, as the country's new president. The move m...

HAVANA (AP) - The Cuban government said Thursday it would release 2,010 prisoners in a move that comes while the Trump administration puts extreme pressure on the island's government with a suffocating oil blockade. The announcement said ...

After crashing his SUV last week in Florida, Tiger Woods took out his phone and told a deputy, "I was just talking to the president," according to body camera footage released Thursday showing Woods' arrest on a DUI charge. The phone conv...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army's top uniformed officer to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure as the United States wages a war against Iran. Gen. Randy Georg...