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RCMP investigating after two bodies found inside Coldstream, B.C., home
VERNON, B.C. - An RCMP major crime unit has been called in to investigate after the discovery of two bodies inside a home in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. A police statement says North Okanagan ...
Jan 17, 2023
Additional resurfacing approved for Parksville playground
PARKSVILLE - More funds have been allocated to enhance one of the region's most popular playgrounds.Through a $300,000 grant from the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada and $100,000 of City...
Jan 17, 2023
Police investigated Utah man for abuse before murder-suicide
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah man who police say killed his wife, her mother and their five kids before turning the gun on himself had been investigated two years prior for child abuse, but local polic...
Jan 17, 2023
Blue Jays reliever Julian Merryweather picked up by Cubs off waivers
TORONTO - Right-handed pitcher Julian Merryweather is no longer with the Toronto Blue Jays. The 31-year-old reliever was claimed off outright waivers by the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday evening. Righty Jun...
Jan 17, 2023
Smith says she won't pursue COVID pardon legislation on advice from justice officials
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she won't introduce legislation to pardon those convicted of COVID-19 public health violations because she has been advised to let the courts handle it. ...
Jan 17, 2023
New York woman kidnapped and smuggled into Quebec in 2020 testifies about ordeal
MONTREAL - A woman from Upstate New York who was kidnapped, smuggled into Quebec and held at a cottage for two days told a jury Tuesday she still lives with the consequences of the September 2020 abdu...
Jan 17, 2023
DOJ won't seek death penalty for El Paso Walmart shooter
Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. The U.S. Department of Justice dis...
Jan 17, 2023
Search uncovers 171 'plausible burials' near Ontario residential school
KENORA, Ont. - Searches for unmarked graves at the site of a former northern Ontario residential school have uncovered 171 "plausible burials," the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation said Tuesday, with other sit...
Jan 17, 2023
B.C. promises $90M for innovative projects for forest-dependent communities
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - The British Columbia government is promising up to $90 million over three years to support new industrial and manufacturing projects in communities hurt by the downturn in the fo...
Jan 17, 2023
French protesters call for extradition of retired priest to Canada
LYON, FRANCE - Activists are calling on France to extradite a retired priest to Canada to face allegations that he sexually abused Inuit children in Nunavut decades ago. Nearly a dozen members of BeBr...
Jan 17, 2023