A local school group is raising money to ensure all kids have a place to play.Hillview Elementary Parent Advisory Council (PAC) is running a 50/50 Raffle to raise money for a new accessible playground at the school.The PAC said Hillview "supports many students with diverse learning and accessibility needs, yet the...

The season's first fire bans for the Okanagan and surrounding area come into effect this week.The B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) will put a ban on Category 2 and 3 open burning within the Kamloops Fire Centre starting at noon Thursday, May 7.The bans for the area that include Vernon, Kelowna and the Okanagan and Shuswap ...

Select properties in an area off Highway 97 have been advised to boil their water before drinking.Greater Vernon Water and the Regional District of North Okanagan issued a Boil Water Notice (BWN) for properties on Stepping Stones Cres. and for 360 to 380 Stepping Stones Drive Tuesday, May 5."A power outage in the ...

Kelowna City Council has said yes to a proposal for temporary housing for over a hundred agricultural workers along Glenmore Road North.The proposal for the parcel near John Hindle Drive, above a cherry orchard, includes housing the 105 workers in 15 dormitory trailers.Additional facilities would include four washroom ...

The season's first fire bans for the Okanagan and surrounding area come into effect this week.The B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) will put a ban on Category 2 and 3 open burning within the Kamloops Fire Centre starting at noon Thursday, May 7.The bans for the area that include Vernon, Kelowna and the Okanagan and Shuswap ...

Okanagan drivers are seeing higher fuel prices this morning as costs continue to climb across the region.In Vernon, the average price for a litre of regular fuel soared to $2.04.9 Tuesday, May 5. That marked a 21 cent increase from the previous day's average.At some Kelowna stations, prices jumped overnight from about ...

KAMLOOPS - Police say one person has been killed in a shooting in the British Columbia Interior city of Kamloops. Mounties have not released any information on the circumstances surrounding the shooting, only noting that the case is being investigated ...

VANCOUVER - The judge in the murder trial of a man who stabbed a Vancouver café patron to death has been presented with two views of the suspect - as someone unable to understand the consequences of his actions due to an "unmedicated psychotic state," ...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says neither the RCMP nor Canada's spy agency have ever raised concerns about his cabinet or caucus, after Vancouver's ex-mayor said a minister was being investigated for collaborating with China's government. Eby said Tues...

MONTREAL - Telecommunications workers are calling for government restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence in the sector, suggesting the technology is being used to monitor workers and disguise the accents of overseas call centre workers. The ...

OTTAWA - Five of Canada's largest oilsands producers and clean energy groups are separately criticizing the federal and Alberta governments for slow progress on finalizing aspects of the energy deal signed last year. The pact pairs the prospect of a ne...

A Quebec man who drove a bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023, killing two children and injuring six others, has asked the Court of Appeal to overturn his high-risk offender designation. Pierre Ny St-Amand was found not criminally responsible by Qu...

EDMOND, Oklahoma (AP) - A shooting at a lakeside party in Oklahoma packed with young people over the weekend left one person dead and 22 others with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, police said Tuesday. Police in Edmond, Oklahoma, said in a p...

COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) - A majority of Republican state senators whose opponents were endorsed by President Donald Trump lost on Tuesday, dealing the president wins in a deep red state just four months after lawmakers rejected his redistricting plan. ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Tuesday's primary in Ohio set up two marquee matchups in November, a U.S. Senate race that will help determine control of the chamber and a governor's race featuring a former presidential candidate and the state's COVID-19-era hea...