MILAN (Reuters) – A stop to the work on a high-speed rail link with France would cost Italy more than 3 billion euros ($3.36 billion), a junior minister for infrastructure told Corriere della Sera in an interview on Friday. Armando Siri, who is part of the ruling League party, also said “as things stand today […]

The Central Okanagan United Way put the fun back in fundraising on Thursday when it launched the Super Mega Ultimate Techathlon. “We’re raising funds to help disadvantaged youth get into the tech sector,” United Way of the Central and South Okanagan Similkameen executive director Helen Jackman said. There are 16 teams participating in the eight […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s Prime Minister Juha Sipila will officially offer his government’s resignation to the president on Friday at 0800 GMT, the president’s office said in a statement. The government will hold a news conference at 0845 GMT. Source: Read Full Article

New statistics show there were 2,919 collisions reported to Guelph police in 2018, which is slightly up from the previous year. Police received 96 more crash reports last year than they did in 2017, according to a news release from police on Thursday. According to their numbers, November saw the most collisions with 356 and […]

No, they’re not X-ray specs. But a University of Alberta team has come up with a way to combine medical imaging with virtual reality to help clinicians locate and understand what’s happening inside their patients’ bodies as they treat them. Greg Kawchuk and his colleagues have figured how to allow doctors or other medical professionals […]

Police in Kelowna are asking for public help regarding a shooting on Baron Road earlier this year. On Jan. 31 at approximately 9:30 p.m., emergency crews were called to a house along the 1900 block of Baron Road. When they arrived, they found a man and a woman doing chest compressions on an unconscious male […]

Vancouver Fire Rescue Services are asking people to do their due diligence before making social media posts, after they say a local business’s reputation was damaged. VFRS Public Information Officer Jonathan Gormick said the problem started when crews responded to a fire at a business on Triumph Street on Jan. 14. A tweet posted on […]

A photo has been posted on Reddit of a man crouching on a SkyTrain track, apparently trying to dig out something that’s stuck — and Metro Vancouver Transit Police have a message for him. Transit police Sgt. Clint Hampton said there’s a number of reasons why someone might try to enter a SkyTrain guideway. “It […]

After heavy snow blanketed the Okanagan, warmer and sunnier days will be sliding in. From Wednesday night through Thursday morning, portions of the South Okanagan saw more than 12 centimetres of snow, with the Central Okanagan receiving 5 to 10 cm. This is on top of the already unprecedented levels of snow that was already […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany risks harming its defense industry with unilateral arms embargoes, such as the one imposed on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Thursday, underscoring the need for a common European policy. Speaking at a conference on export controls, Altmaier said Germany had extended through the end of […]