Vancouver will get a first look at the planning process for the Broadway subway megaproject on Wednesday morning. The City of Vancouver is holding a briefing with an overview of the Broadway Plan, which will highlight “the goals and priorities for the plan, opportunities for public involvement … as well as how the planning work […]

The 20-year partnership between the celebrity chef Mario Batali and the Bastianich family of restaurateurs was formally dissolved on Wednesday, more than a year after several women accused Mr. Batali of sexual harassment and assault. Mr. Batali “will no longer profit from the restaurants in any way, shape or form,” said Tanya Bastianich Manuali, who […]

A marijuana growing company announced Wednesday morning that construction of its new production facility in Lumby is now complete. True Leaf, which says it hopes to diversify the economy in the small North Okanagan town, broke ground on the facility last March. READ MORE: Lumby hopes marijuana will help diversify local economy The new plant […]

The northbound lanes of Highway 97 in Vernon remain closed after a semi-trailer truck partially lost its load Wednesday morning. It happened around 7 a.m. along the hill next to Vernon Jubilee Hospital. The truck was carrying cut timber. The northbound lanes of Highway 97 had to be closed Wednesday morning when a semi partially […]

LONDON (Reuters) – A Muslim convert who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS) was jailed for life on Wednesday for plotting to drive a truck into pedestrians on central London’s busy Oxford Street. Lewis Ludlow, 26, had planned to rent the vehicle and plough it into shoppers, hoping to kill over 100 people in […]

Amid simmering tensions over a long-running homeless camp, the City of Maple Ridge has voted to develop a social housing plan. The vote came Tuesday night, after homeless campers and supporters from the Anita Place tent city staged a demonstration that was at points tense. The motion directs Maple Ridge city staff to “assemble a […]

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – A senior member of the European Parliament from Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party said late on Tuesday his group would not accept conditions other MEPs set to remain part of their moderate conservative alliance, worsening a conflict just before European elections. Manfred Weber, the leader of the main center-right party in the European […]

February was brutally cold throughout many areas in Canada, including in Lethbridge, where the city experienced historically low temperatures. “The February of 2019 was the second-coldest February recorded for Lethbridge. The records in Lethbridge go back to 1886. The average temperature in Lethbridge throughout February was -19.5, which compares to a normal average of -6.1 […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Talks between British Prime Minister Theresa May’s top government lawyer and European Union negotiators to win concessions from the bloc on Brexit ended with no agreement in Brussels on Tuesday. May has sent Attorney General Geoffrey Cox to seek changes to her deal in a last-ditch bid to get it through parliament […]

Napanee OPP stopped two people driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit within an hour of each other this past weekend. OPP officers were patrolling the Highway 401 in Napanee on Saturday evening around 11 p.m., when a vehicle allegedly sped past them, travelling 152 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. They stopped […]