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Antler Creek Wildfire: BC Wildfire Service reporting reduced fire behaviour
Antler Creek wildfire behaviour has reduced over the last few days due to favourable weather and suppression efforts, according to a BC Wildfire Service social media post on Saturday (July 27) morning...
Jul 27, 2024
Vancouver police investigating homicide after two men shot in vehicle
VANCOUVER - Vancouver police are investigating a suspected homicide after two men were shot in a vehicle, which then collided with two other vehicles. A statement says police were called just before 9...
Jul 27, 2024
B.C. tree fruit grower co-operative shuts down after 88 years, citing low volume
OKANAGAN, B.C. - A British Columbia co-operative that has been selling and promoting the province's fruit for the last 88 years is shutting down. In a letter sent to members Friday and obtained by The...
Jul 27, 2024
Elks, Tiger-Cats hope to turn season around as they meet in Edmonton
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Elks are 0-6 and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are 1-5 this season, sitting at the bottom of the CFL standings. But both their coaches know what it's like to be part of groups that w...
Jul 27, 2024
Farmers' markets and business groups feuding with Loblaws after disparaging text ad
Farmers' markets and business groups say they are "sad and disappointed" in NoFrills and its parent company Loblaw after the company sent a mass-advertising text message encouraging customers to "skip...
Jul 27, 2024
Rocket attack on town in Israeli-controlled Golan Heights wounds several people
BEIRUT (AP) - A rocket attack Saturday on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights wounded several people, including children, hours after an Israeli airstrike on south Lebanon killed three members of the...
Jul 27, 2024
Canadian swimmers advance out of heats, fencer defeated in quarters on Day 1 in Paris
PARIS - Summer McIntosh was one of several Canadian swimmers to advance out of their heats, while a first-time fencing Olympian beat a three-time defending champion as the Paris Games got underway in ...
Jul 27, 2024
Quebec police arrest suspect after pedestrian killed in alleged hit and run
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are investigating a fatal hit and run that took place early on Saturday morning near Mont-Tremblant, Que, in the Laurentians region of the province. Police spokespe...
Jul 27, 2024
Crews make 'good progress' fighting fire that destroyed six homes near Golden, B.C.
The BC Wildfire Service says crews are "making good progress" containing a 55-square-kilometre wildfire near Golden, B.C., that destroyed as many as six homes in the region earlier this week. The Dogt...
Jul 27, 2024
Crews make 'good progress' fighting fire that destroyed six homes near Golden, B.C.
The BC Wildfire Service says crews are "making good progress" containing a 55-square-kilometre wildfire near Golden, B.C., that destroyed as many as six homes in the region earlier this week. The Dogt...
Jul 27, 2024