UPDATE: Traffic is flowing smoothly again on the W.R. Bennett Bridge. Traffic conditions along the W.R. Bennett Bridge following an earlier vehicle incident that has been cleared. ORIGINAL: An incident on the W.R. Bennett Bridge is slowing traffic heading from Kelowna to West Kelowna. Webcams on DriveBC show vehicles lined up on the Kelowna side […]

The City of Montreal says its teams are ready to tackle the winter storm that will be ripping through Quebec Tuesday evening. “We are ready to go out as soon as we will receive the first snow on the roads,” said Jean-François Parenteau, Montreal’s executive committee member responsible for snow clearing. Related Travel alerts issued as […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Weeks before a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the top U.S. military commander for Asia on Tuesday echoed an intelligence assessment that North Korea is unlikely to give up all its nuclear weapons. Although he expressed optimism about the Feb. 27-28 summit in […]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Acting U.S. defense chief Patrick Shanahan told Iraqi leaders that Washington understood its forces were in Iraq at Baghdad’s invitation, aiming to steady relations after President Donald Trump said U.S. troops were needed to keep an eye on Iran. Shanahan met Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi during an unannounced trip to Baghdad […]

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition supporters returned to the streets nationwide on Tuesday to keep the heat on embattled President Nicolas Maduro and demand he allow humanitarian aid into the country where food and medicine shortages are rife. The rallies occurred nearly three weeks to the day that opposition leader Juan Guaido invoked a constitutional […]

The winter storm in Toronto has resulted in a number of school closures and transportation delays on Tuesday. The weather system, which is expected to bring a mix of snow, ice pellets and possibly freezing rain, will pound the region throughout the day. A winter storm warning is in effect for Toronto with snow, at […]

More than 27 tonnes of pangolins and their scales – believed to be worth at least £1.6m – have been seized from traffickers by Malaysian authorities on Borneo. Police discovered two major factories on the island’s eastern state of Sabah. They found containers holding 1,800 boxes of frozen pangolins, a further 572 frozen pangolins in […]

As London prepares for another bout of icy weather Tuesday, school buses in the region have been cancelled for the day, and schools in both local school boards are closed. The Southwestern Student Transportation Service tweeted just before 6 a.m. that all school purpose vehicles had been cancelled “due to current and forecasted conditions of […]

EL PASO, Texas (REUTERS) While thousands of Central American migrants wait to enter the United States, a group of US citizens gathered on the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez on Saturday (Feb 9) to link arms and make a human border wall. The demonstrators gathered at the border where an existing barrier ends […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration threatened on Monday to veto an effort in the U.S. Congress to end U.S. military support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, continuing a stand-off with lawmakers over policy toward the kingdom. Democrats and Republicans re-introduced the war powers resolution two weeks ago as a […]