KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has posted a notice of disposition for the remaining assets of the now-decommissioned Noble Creek Irrigation System. The notice posted to the city's website on Tuesday (April 23) is the first of two that need to be posted in successive weeks, allowing any other parties to show interest i...

KAMLOOPS - SD73 board of education chair Heather Grieve is responding to criticism of the process that preceded the naming of Sníne, a 453-seat, K-to-7 elementary school that will be built in Pineview Valley.She said the community consultation portion of the process was not just for show and a thorough procedure...

KAMLOOPS - For those who didn't grow up with modern technology like smartphones or even the internet, a local organization is offering a way to become familiar with how it all works. Kamloops Partner Assisted Learning (KPAL) has a new version of its popular Tech Cafes, with teenagers volunteering to teach seniors how t...

KAMLOOPS - According to recent data, the Kamloops Food Bank saw an 85 per cent increase in the number of people needing its services throughout 2023, with more than 13,000 clients coming through its doors. The Spring Rotary Food Drive this weekend is gearing up to help the Food Bank keep its shelves stocked. Food Bank ...

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. reported its first-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago due in part to its reduced ownership in its steelmaking coal business as well as lower copper and zinc prices and higher costs. The Vancouver-based mining company says it earned a profit attributable to shareholders of $343 ...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Reena Virk's killer told parole officials that a television series about the Victoria, B.C., teen's murder is "disrespectful" and will "re-victimize" Virk's family. Documents released by the Parole Board of Canada Wednesday say Virk's killer Kelly Ellard - who changed her name to...

VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board says several factors may have played a role in the crash of an air taxi in B.C.'s Chilcotin region two years ago, including poor visibility and the pilot's motivation to get to Lorna Lake after cancelling earlier in the day. The pilot and two of the five passengers aboard th...

WHITE ROCK, B.C. - A man has been killed in a stabbing in White Rock, B.C., and police say there are "apparent similarities" to another knife attack in the same area two days earlier. RCMP say the latest incident happened late Tuesday, when a man was reported to have been stabbed near the White Rock Pier. Pol...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service has announced a five-month open fire ban covering much of the province's Interior, as fire season gets off to an early start. The ban on Category 3 fires in the Kamloops fire centre will run from May 3 to Oct. 11 and will prohibit people burning three or more fires on a property...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is offering more details today about its discussions on rate cut timing. The central bank released its summary of deliberations, which detailed the governing council's discussions during its most recent decision. The bank held its key rate steady at five per cent but members of the governin...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's Justice Minister has written to his federal counterpart to ask for changes to the Criminal Code relating to bail and detention in cases of intimate partner violence. John Hogan wrote the letter to Arif Virani last month, about a week after a St. John's, N.L., woman was fou...

OTTAWA - Conservative member of Parliament Colin Carrie, who represents Oshawa, Ont., says he will not run in the next election. Carrie was first elected in 2004 and re-elected six times. He says it's been an honour to serve as an MP but it's time to clear a path for someone new to represent the community. In February...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Are doctors' retirement savings doomed? The Canadian Medical Association says the Liberals' proposed changes to capital gains taxation will put doctors' retirement savings in jeopardy. The federal b...

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Honda executives are expected to announce today that the Japanese automaker is building an electric vehicle battery plant in Alliston, Ont., part of a $15-billion investment. Senior sources with information on the project have told The Canadian Pres...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Medical Association asserts the Liberals' proposed changes to capital gains taxation will put doctors' retirement savings in jeopardy, but some financial experts insist incorporated professionals are not as doomed as they say they are. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government presented a federa...

Nine-year-old Carter Vigh was having a great day last July 11, visiting a waterpark, enjoying a picnic lunch and playing soccer with other kids at a day camp run by his mother, Amber Vigh. At the time, wildfires were raging throughout parts of British Columbia and so Amber checked the air quality index on a weather app...

BALTIMORE (AP) - The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago. The Balsa 94, a bulk carrier sailing under a Panama flag, passed through the new 35-foot (12-meter) channel headed ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Ariel Henry resigned Thursday as prime minister of Haiti, leaving the way clear for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country, which has been wracked by gang violence that killed or injured more than 2,500 people from January to March. Henry presented his resignation in a lette...

JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China (AP) - China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in no...

Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people. More than half of the territory's population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel has conducted near-daily raids as it prepares for an offensive in the city. In central...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told parliament on Thursday that the government wants to return to the group of countries which sets the agenda of the European Union. Sikorski was describing the new direction of the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, explaining to a world audience ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Reggie Bush has his Heisman back. The Heisman Trust reinstated the former Southern California tailback as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner on Wednesday, citing fundamental changes in the structure of college athletics during the 14 years since Bush forfeited the trophy and the honor. Bush gave up his H...