KAMLOOPS -- Rivers FC of Kamloops will resume League1 BC soccer play on Sunday (June 16), playing host to Burnaby Football Club in men's and women's matches at Hillside Stadium. The women are slated to kick off at 3 p.m.Rivers' ladies are 1-3-3 on the season and fifth among seven teams in league standings. Burnaby (4-1...

KAMLOOPS -- The Wenatchee AppleSox overpowered the Kamloops NorthPaws in West Coast League baseball action on Saturday (June 15) at Norbrock Stadium.Wenatchee scored six runs in the fourth inning en route to a 13-2 victory to improve to 11-3 on the campaign and pad its position atop North Division standings. Quincy Vas...

CLEARWATER -- Clearwater and area residents are being advised of temporary changes to emergency department hours at Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital due to limited nurse availability. Emergency services will be unavailable from 6 p.m. on Saturday (June 15) to 7 p.m. on Sunday (June 16), according to a press release from ...

KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University (TRU) has been recognized as a leader in environmental protection and stewardship. The university's sustainability office is the recipient of the 2024 Recycling Council of BC's (RCBC) Environmental Award in the public sector category. The award was presented at RCBC's annual genera...

VANCOUVER - A new health centre dedicated to serving British Columbia's French-language speakers will open its doors this fall in Vancouver. A statement from B.C.'s Ministry of Health says the current Vancouver Urban Health Centre cannot accommodate the needs of the Lower Mainland's growing French-speaking community ev...

When catastrophic floods severed a bridge and washed away or closed highways in southern British Columbia, Mitchell Dyck and other patients needing regular life-saving dialysis had to be flown to hospital by helicopter. The flooding caused by record-breaking rain in November 2021 shut down every route to the rest of Ca...

MISSION, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Police and other rescue agencies say they're still looking for a 37-year-old boater who went missing near Mission, B.C., but local rescue crews say "it's unlikely he is still alive." RCMP say police responded to Nicomen Slough, about 14 kilometres northeast of Mission, on Friday ev...

WHITE ROCK, B.C. - Environment Canada says storms tracking over British Columbia's south coast brought hail to the region today, with one witness reporting pellets the size of large peas blanketing his local streets. Meteorologist Yimei Li says the weather agency has received reports about hail from White Rock, South S...

FORT NELSON, B.C. - Parts of northeastern British Columbia are under rainfall warnings as a narrow band of intense storms moves through the area. Environment Canada says about 40 to 50 millimeters of rain is expected to fall in the province's North Peace River and southern Fort Nelson regions on Saturday. It says a nar...

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada is warning motorists of possible snow at mountain passes on a number of major highways across British Columbia's Interior. The agency says a weather system will bring a cool air mass to the B.C. Interior on Saturday and Sunday, which may combine with some heavy precipitation to form snow ...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The trial of two men charged with conspiracy to commit murder at the 2022 blockade at Coutts, Alta., resumes today. Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert are on trial in Court of King's Bench on charges surrounding the blockade, which snarled traffic at the Canada-U.S. border for two weeks to protest C...

OTTAWA - National Defence Minister Bill Blair's office is defending the decision to send a Canadian ship to Cuba where it docked alongside some of Russia's fleet, calling it a "carefully" planned move to increase its presence in the region. Spokesman Daniel Minden issued a statement on Sunday saying the visit...

HALIFAX - There's growing evidence that the number of great white sharks is on the rise along Canada's East Coast, where plans are in the works to post warning signs for beachgoers for the first time. Fred Whoriskey, director of the Ocean Tracking Network at Dalhousie University in Halifax, says the population of these...

BURGENSTOCK - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Russia needs to be accountable "for the element of genocide" he says it's committing by taking thousands of Ukrainian children from their home. He addressed reported this morning at the summit on peace in Ukraine taking place in Switzerland. More than 90 countr...

MONTREAL - A 50-year-old man has died following a collision on Friday afternoon in Frampton, Que., about 76 kilometres southeast of Quebec City. Provincial police say they learned of the crash on Route 275 in the province's Chaudière-Appalaches region at around 5:15 p.m. They say the man swerved out of his lane ...

MONTREAL - A human smuggling ring recently dismantled by members of the RCMP was connected to the deaths of eight migrants who drowned in the St. Lawrence River while trying to cross illegally into the United States last year. Members of two families - four people from India and four of Romanian descent - died in March...

BRUSSELS (AP) - European Union countries on Monday gave final approval to a major and long-awaited plan to better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc, a divisive issue after months of protests by farmers who argued that EU environmental and climate laws were driving them toward bankruptcy. After surviving a razor-thin...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israeli officials said Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential War Cabinet that was tasked with steering the war in Gaza. The War Cabinet was dissolved following the departure from the government of Benny Gantz, an opposition lawmaker who had joined the coalit...

NEW DELHI (AP) - A cargo train rammed into a passenger train in India's eastern state of West Bengal on Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring several others with rescue work ongoing. The state's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in a post on social media platform X that doctors, disaster-response teams a...

BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese vessel and a Philippine supply ship collided near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Monday, China's coast guard said. The coast guard said a Philippine supply ship entered waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, a submerged reef in the Spratly Islands that's part of territory ...

PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) - Bryson DeChambeau won the U.S. Open on Sunday for the second time with another memorable finish on the 18th hole at Pinehurst No. 2, along with another heavy dose of heartache for Rory McIlroy. In a wild final hour of more blunders than brilliance, DeChambeau capped off a week of high entertainme...

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) - Riot police in Germany intervened to stop brawling soccer fans before Sunday's match between Serbia and England at the European Championship soccer tournament in Germany. Social media footage showed men throwing chairs at each other outside a restaurant festooned with Serbian flags in the ...