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Top News - Penticton, South Okanagan & Similkameen Areas

  • 'Unthinkable and horrific:' 2 Edmonton police constables shot on job, suspect dead

    EDMONTON - Officers embraced each other and wiped away tears Thursday as Edmonton's police chief relayed details of how two constables were shot and killed at an apartment complex while responding to a domestic violence call.
  • Sneaking a president from DC to Kyiv without anyone noticing

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden’s motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No big, flashy Air Force One for this trip -– the president vanished into the darkness on an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757 normally used for domestic trips to smaller airports.
  • iN VIDEO: How to build your own e-bike plow

    Philip Marciniak may build e-bikes but he’s not planning to go into business building and selling snow plows for them.
  • Woman held hostage during B.C. bank shooting experiencing roller-coaster of emotions

    Shelli Fryer was wide awake at 2:54 on Canada Day and hoped the stack of messages piling up in recent days could help her close her eyes.
  • Russia takes losses in failed river crossing, officials say

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces suffered heavy losses in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a pontoon bridge they were using to try to cross a river in the east, Ukrainian and British officials said in another sign of Moscow's struggle to salvage a war gone awry.
  • Russians leave Chernobyl site as fighting rages elsewhere

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early Friday, more than a month after taking it over, Ukrainian authorities said, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
  • Russians keep pressure on Mariupol; massive convoy breaks up

    MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city of Mariupol on Thursday, while satellite photos appeared to show that a massive convoy that had been mired outside the Ukrainian capital split up and fanned out into towns and forests near Kyiv, with artillery pieces moved into firing positions.
  • Victim of Kelowna 2019 RCMP shooting launches lawsuit

    A man who was shot during a traffic stop in Kelowna in 2019 has launched a civil claim against the officer who pulled the trigger.
  • 1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours

    Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America’s streets.
  • The Latest: Pope meets father of drowned Syrian refugee boy

    IRBIL, Iraq - The Latest on Pope Francis' historic visit to Iraq, aimed at rallying the country's long-beleaguered Christian community and promoting interreligious tolerance (all times local):
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