KAMLOOPS - As fans across North America celebrate the spectacle that is the FIFA World Cup, the economic impacts are being felt hundreds of kilometres away from host cities like Vancouver. In Kamloops, its no different as bars, restaurants and other businesses look to the beautiful game for an assist to their bottom li...

KAMLOOPS - Project X Theatre is bringing Theatre Under the Trees back to Prince Charles Park this month. The 22nd season will officially get underway next Thursday (July 9), the first of two opening nights as this year's festival will alternate between two shows - Robin Hood and The Paper Bag Princess. You can also get...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson recently got a personal look at the health care system in British Columbia and in Kamloops, as his wife Lori was admitted to the ICU at Royal Inland Hospital. The mayor says the time spent at her bedside opened his eyes to the challenges faced by residents."Our mayors' ...

KAMLOOPS - Jobs and an economic boost are on the table for the City of Kamloops following a major agreement between the B.C. and Federal governments.This as the agreement comes with a proposed new pipeline through the Trans Mountain corridor, which could see the major construction project come through Kamloops."CA...

RICHMOND - The heartbroken girlfriend of a young charter boat captain feared drowned in a deadly sinking in B.C. waters last Sunday says she was aboard the vessel two days earlier when a broken door swung open and water flooded in. Chen Ming, 23, was i...

SUNSHINE COAST - Police in British Columbia are asking for the public's help after a missing person's vehicle was abandoned on a BC Ferries vessel. RCMP say Joyelle Goldbard's orange Subaru was found unclaimed on the 2:35 p.m. ferry sailing on Thursday...

BOSTON BAR - The British Columbia Wildfire Service says it's helping the Boston Bar Fire Department as a blaze burns close to the community in the southern Interior. The fire is about six hectares in size and is burning out of control west of the Fras...

Alberta's Opposition NDP leader says Premier Danielle Smith's plan for a new pipeline has his support, but he's calling on her to be honest about how much taxpayers could be on the hook for it. Naheed Nenshi also says public financing for the pipeline ...

Community coroners in British Columbia have been given a 55 per cent pay boost as the BC Coroners Service looks to fill vacancies in dozens of communities across the province. The wage increase to $49.77 an hour for community coroners came into effect...

VICTORIA - Former Conservative member of the British Columbia legislature Amelia Boultbee, who left the caucus to sit as an Independent, is now a member of the governing New Democrats. Boultbee says her former party has changed and the big-tent party ...

TORONTO - Newly released court documents are shedding more light on the alleged link between a sweeping police corruption probe in Ontario and the case of former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding, who is accused of running an international drug traffickin...

Alberta's Opposition NDP leader says Premier Danielle Smith's plan for a new pipeline has his support, but he's calling on her to be honest about how much taxpayers could be on the hook for it. Naheed Nenshi also says public financing for the pipeline ...

RICHMOND - The heartbroken girlfriend of a young charter boat captain feared drowned in a deadly sinking in B.C. waters last Sunday says she was aboard the vessel two days earlier when a broken door swung open and water flooded in. Chen Ming, 23, was i...

Community coroners in British Columbia have been given a 55 per cent pay boost as the BC Coroners Service looks to fill vacancies in dozens of communities across the province. The wage increase to $49.77 an hour for community coroners came into effect...

OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Marc Miller says the government's widely criticized advisory council on inclusion is meant to unify Canadians in a way previous federal envoys tasked with tackling antisemitism and Islamophobia could not. "This is an advisory...

OTTAWA - Environmental groups say they wanted to see a more concrete commitment to decarbonization in the proposal put forward for a pipeline to the B.C. coast backed by the Alberta and federal governments. Representatives from both the Pembina Institu...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran began a dayslong funeral Saturday for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, months after an airstrike killed him at the start of the war. He was 86. Authorities unveiled the casket containing Khamenei's ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran began a dayslong funeral Saturday for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, months after an airstrike killed him at the start of the war. He was 86. Khamenei's body was to be on display at the Grand Mosa...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico will double security and limit capacity at the monument known as the "Angel of Independence" and at the fan festival in Mexico City's main square for Sunday's Mexico-England World Cup match after four people died during celebr...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Lionel Messi's goal-scoring streak lived on, and he made it look easy. His hopes of a second consecutive World Cup title also lived on - and that accomplishment was anything but easy. Messi's goal ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Conservative politician Keiko Fujimori on Friday was declared the winner of the presidential runoff election in Peru, which was dominated by people's concerns over surging crime. Fujimori, 51, the daughter of a disgraced...

PARIS (AP) - Interpol on Friday identified the main suspect in the Monaco bombing that reportedly targeted a Ukrainian tycoon with links to Russia as a 39-year-old woman from Ukraine who remains at large. The police organization named An...