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Extra supports and services amidst extreme cold weather warning
With extreme cold warning forecasts of -10C or below in effect across the Okanagan, the City of Kelowna continues to work alongside partners to lessen the risks and impacts of extreme cold weather on ...
Feb 4, 2025
Trina Hunt's husband charged with indignity to human remains 4 years after death
PORT MOODY, B.C. - The husband of a Metro Vancouver woman whose body was found almost four years ago now faces charges connected to the death. Trina Hunt was reported missing on Jan. 18, 2021, and her...
Feb 4, 2025
B.C. pausing tariff countermeasures after 30-day U.S. reprieve
B-C is pausing its response to threatened tariffs by the United States after a 30-day reprieve was negotiated. But Premier David Eby says they will keep planning to shift the provincial trade relation...
Feb 4, 2025
Opposition parties call for Parliament's return after Trump hits pause on tariffs
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives and New Democrats say the government needs to recall Parliament within the next month to act on U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threat. On Monday, Trump agreed ...
Feb 4, 2025
FBI agents sue over Justice Dept. effort to ID employees involved in Trump-related investigations
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI agents who participated in investigations related to President Donald Trump have sued over Justice Department efforts to develop a list of employees involved in those inquiries t...
Feb 4, 2025
'Fentanyl czar' will serve as liaison between U.S. and Canada, minister says
OTTAWA - Federal Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says Canada's new "fentanyl czar" will serve as a liaison between Canada and the U.S. on cross-border efforts to curb fentanyl traffic. McGuinty ...
Feb 4, 2025
First military flight to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay is set to depart, official says
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay was set to depart Tuesday, a U.S. official said. It is the first step in what is expected t...
Feb 4, 2025
Doug Collins confirmed as veterans affairs secretary as Trump Cabinet takes shape
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Doug Collins as secretary of veterans affairs, putting the former congressman and Iraq War veteran at the helm of a department that provides cruc...
Feb 4, 2025
FBI agents sue over Justice Dept. effort to ID employees involved in Trump-related investigations
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI agents who participated in investigations related to President Donald Trump have sued over Justice Department efforts to develop a list of employees involved in those inquiries t...
Feb 4, 2025
Fact-checking Trump's executive order threatening tariffs on Canada
OTTAWA - To justify his executive order imposing stiff tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, U.S. President Donald Trump cited an "extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, inc...
Feb 4, 2025
