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A man in his sixties has died in a single vehicle crash on Highway 97, about 12 kilometres east of Falkland, according to the North Okanagan RCMP.Officers were called to the scene near Whispering Pine...

CALGARY - A court has heard that a German tourist shot while driving on a highway west of Calgary last year had eight bullet fragments removed from his brain during surgery. A trial has begun for...

MONTREAL - Provincial police today dispatched a sonar-equipped boat to a reservoir to look for signs of a missing helicopter carrying a Quebec businessman and his teenage son who f...

Pernell Whitaker, an Olympic gold medallist and four division champion who was regarded as one of the greatest defensive fighters ever, has died after being hit by a car in Virginia. He was 55. Police...

NEW ORLEANS - Though Tropical Depression Barry failed to unleash catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, it still swamped parts of Louisiana with up to 17 inches (43 centimetres) of rain and transformed...

Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Kelly Hrudey will be in Vernon for the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation's Charity Classic golf tournament.Hrudey will emcee the 10th annual tournament which takes ...

VANCOUVER - Cannabis producer Agrima Botanicals Corp. has had its licences revoked by Health Canada, months after the company disclosed the regulator's finding that "unauthorized activities" with pot ...

BEIJING - China's economic growth sank to its lowest level in at least 26 years in the quarter ending in June, adding to pressure on Chinese leaders as they fight a tariff war with Washington. The wor...

NEW YORK - Financier Jeffrey Epstein will remain behind bars for now as a federal judge mulls whether to grant bail on charges he sexually abused underage girls. The judge said he needed more time to ...

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is looking into an "administrative matter" at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg after it advised the Mounties of possible policy...