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Okanagan homes featured in BC Children’s Hospital Dream Lottery
Luxury homes in Vernon and West Kelowna are among the grand prizes in this year's BC Children's Hospital Dream Lottery - now officially underway.The 2025 edition includes 11 grand prize options, inclu...
Jul 16, 2025
Surveyor working east of Mission, B.C., hit and killed by dump truck
HATZIC - Police in Mission, B.C., say a 48-year-old Abbotsford man has been killed after being hit by a "fully loaded" dump truck while doing surveying work east of the city. RCMP the man was working ...
Jul 16, 2025
Carney confirms possibility of lumber quotas in trade deal with the United States
HAMILTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney says any future trade deal with the United States could include "some element of managed trade," including quotas, on softwood lumber exports. Carney's comments c...
Jul 16, 2025
Carney confirms possibility of lumber quotas in trade deal with the United States
HAMILTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney says any future trade deal with the United States could include "some element of managed trade," including quotas, on softwood lumber exports. Carney's comments c...
Jul 16, 2025
City of Vernon purchasing new vehicles, equipment
Vernon City Council has approved replacing some items in its vehicle fleet.At the regular meeting Monday, June 14, council was presented an opportunity to replace a Bobcat, a loader, a pickup truck, a...
Jul 16, 2025
Former world No. 5 Eugenie Bouchard to retire from tennis at her hometown tournament
MONTREAL - Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard, who reached No. 5 in the WTA rankings in a breakout 2014 season, is retiring from tennis at this year's National Bank Open in Montreal. Tennis Canad...
Jul 16, 2025
B.C. First Nation says plan to move Tex the grizzly was underway before it was killed
TEXADA ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A First Nation on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast says it is "deeply saddened" by the shooting death of a grizzly bear on Texada Island this week. The Tla'amin Firs...
Jul 16, 2025
B.C. First Nation says plan to move Tex the grizzly was underway before it was killed
TEXADA ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A First Nation on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast says it is "deeply saddened" by the shooting death of a grizzly bear on Texada Island this week. The Tla'amin Firs...
Jul 16, 2025
Vandalized Pablo Picasso painting back on display at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
MONTREAL - The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts says a Pablo Picasso painting that was vandalized last month by climate activists is back on display. An environmental activist with Last Generation Canada ...
Jul 16, 2025
Rockets-Tigers pre-season games in Yukon still a go
Despite Gavin McKenna heading to Penn State, the WHL pre-season games in the Yukon this fall are still a go.The marquee matchups between the Kelowna Rockets and Medicine Hat Tigers will go ahead as pl...
Jul 16, 2025
