KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has broken a daily temperature record for the second day in a row as it remains mired in a spell of unseasonably warm weather brought on by an atmospheric river on the coast.Preliminary figures from Environment Canada shows the temperature in Kamloops reached 21.2 C on Thursday (March 19...

KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops will be closing the Riverside Park outdoor skating rink a few days ahead of schedule because of warm and unseasonable weather. In a statement, the city says the inaugural season at the outdoor skating loop will now end at 9:00 p.m. this Friday (March 20) instead of 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, M...

KAMLOOPS - While 2025 was the least destructive of the last three wildfire seasons British Columbia, it was still an active year as over eight-hundred-thousand hectares of land was burned, slightly above the 10 year average. Kamloops saw a less busy wildfire season last summer as most of the activity was in the northea...

KAMLOOPS - A field that began with 11 leadership candidates has been whittled down to just seven. Kamloops-Centre MLA Peter Milobar is the last remaining current member of the legislature in the running to become the next leader of the B.C. Conservative Party. The longtime MLA sees his Victoria seat as an advantage.&qu...

VANCOUVER - Residents in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia are on high alert this morning as rising floodwaters threaten to force them from their homes while officials warn of landslides and power outages. Two evacuation alerts covering just under ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's credit rating has been downgraded, but Premier David Eby said government made a "very clear choice" between making cuts to "meet a credit rating" and "prioritizing British Columbians." "We have to meet people where they'r...

VANCOUVER - Two members of the Nisga'a Nation have filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court alleging the First Nation failed to adequately consult its citizens before partnering with Western LNG on the development of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Pro...

NEW WESTMINSTER - Police in Metro Vancouver say four people - including three youths - have been arrested and charged in connection with a stabbing after a multi-month investigation. New Westminster police say the case began on Aug. 1, 2025, when offic...

VANCOUVER - The artificial turf lining fields across Metro Vancouver is leaching a chemical that's deadly to coho salmon into municipal stormwater systems, says a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia. The study, published this mon...

Tyson Atleo, a hereditary leader of the Ahousaht First Nation, says the creation of three new forestry areas to be managed by his community and two others on the west coast of Vancouver Island marks the realization of a long-standing promise. Atleo rec...

It's an enduring stereotype that Canadians are unfailingly nice, quick to apologize even when they have done nothing wrong. But an online urban legend claims the opposite of Canada's soldiers, painting a picture of troops so brazen in their brutality t...

The Artemis II rocket that's set to carry Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the moon has begun making its way to the launch pad. NASA says rollout operations at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida began early Friday after being briefly delayed by...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Experts say Canada can't avoid engaging with U.S. as Trump rattles NATO with insults U.S. President Donald Trump is widening the cracks between the United States a...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump is widening the cracks between the United States and European NATO members with his calls for allies to help him finish the war he started with Iran. Many NATO member countries were already grappling with the fu...

VANCOUVER - Two members of the Nisga'a Nation have filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court alleging the First Nation failed to adequately consult its citizens before partnering with Western LNG on the development of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Pro...

The families of the five teenagers who were with 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi when he was shot dead by Longueuil police are suing the city and the police force for $1.9 million. Rezayi was killed Sept. 21, 2025, after police responded to a 911 call about...

Kuwait said Friday its Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery again came under attack by Iranian drones, which sparked a fire at several of its units. The refinery had been hit Thursday, sparking fires. Kuwait said firefighters on Frid...

THERMAL, Calif. (AP) - A desert community in southwestern Arizona reached 110 degrees (43.3 C) on Thursday, breaking a record for the highest March temperature ever recorded in the United States. The record-setting temperature was recorde...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal arts commission on Thursday approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing President Donald Trump's image to help celebrate America's 250th birthday on July 4. The vote by the U.S. Com...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, a first step toward shedding management of all student loans as Trump administration officials dismantle the federal educ...

BARCELONA (AP) - Spanish authorities have found the body of missing college student from Illinois. The body of 20-year-old James "Jimmy" Gracey was found Thursday evening in the water off a Barcelona beach, near where he was last seen out...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) - Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday ordered the release of 250 political prisoners as part of a deal with Washington that lifted some U.S. sanctions, the latest step in the isolated leader's effort ...