BREAKING: Vanderhoof woman’s remains found 12 years after she went missing

An RCMP cruiser. (Vladvictoria/Pixabay.com)
Madison Scott has been missing from Vanderhoof since 2011
Bling Performance in Penticton did a vinyl wrap on a 1969 van which appears in episode 3 of Discovery Channel’s Bush Wreck Rescue, starring Okanagan custom car builder Bill Desrosier. (Still from Bush Wreck Rescue)

Photos: Penticton auto detailer featured in new TV series Bush Wreck Rescue
A war memorial (background) has been erected in Lower Nicola to commemorate locals who have served in the armed forces for Canada. (Jake Courtepatte/Capital News)

Lower Nicola monument unveiled honouring Indigenous veterans
Competition Bureau recommends changing THC limits for edibles, easing pot packaging

Competition Bureau recommends changing THC limits for edibles, easing pot packaging
Boo the bear preps for big spring debut as B.C.’s Kicking Horse Resort opens

Boo the bear preps for big spring debut as B.C.’s Kicking Horse Resort opens

Jessie Simpson blowing kisses to the camera. (Sue Simpson/Facebook)

Call for cards as Kamloops attack victim turns 26
Dr. Scott McKee included a photo of the crowded ICU, intensive care unit, also called the HAU, high acuity unit, in Shuswap Lake General Hospital in May 2023 during his presentation to Salmon Arm council on May 23. (Martha Wickett-Salmon Arm Observer)

Provision of critical care at Salmon Arm hospital in jeopardy, doctor warns
A smoker puts out a cigarette in a public ashtray in Ottawa on May 31, 2016. Three national health organizations want Canada’s premiers to push for initiatives to reduce smoking during settlement negotiations with major tobacco companies, which provinces sued to recoup health-care costs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Provinces must seek anti-smoking measures in Big Tobacco settlement: health groups
The Donnie Creek wildfire (G80280) burns in an area between Fort Nelson and Fort St. John, B.C. in this undated handout photo. The Peace River Regional District issued a new evacuation order as well as an alert Sunday in response to two wildfires burning in northeastern British Columbia. (BC Wildfire Service photo)

B.C. district issues wildfire evacuation order in remote area north of Fort St. John
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WestJet pilots are poised to get a 24 per cent pay bump over four years under an agreement-in-principle between the company and the union. Members of the Air Line Pilots Association demonstrate amid contract negotiations outside the WestJet headquarters in Calgary, Alta., Friday, March 31, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

WestJet pilots deal grants 24% pay raise over four years

Guillermo Hernandez, right, a soil scientist, and Camila Quiroz, a research intern from Peru, look over their plants in a research room used to simulate sunlight at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez, University of Alberta. *MANDATORY CREDIT*

‘More connected’: Researchers looking at growing food under solar panels

A new report is casting doubt on the idea that Canada is facing a widespread labour shortage, bolstering arguments by labour economists who say the country has more than enough workers. A sign for help wanted is pictured in a business window in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

StatCan report casts clouds on claims of a widespread labour shortage in Canada

B.C. Premier David Eby talks with the media in Langford on May 25 alongside NDP candidate for the Langford-Juan de Fuca byelection Ravi Parmar. Eby will lead a trade delegation to Asia starting May 27. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Eby says Asia trade mission a way to ‘protect’ B.C. from geopolitical tensions

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British Columbia Premier David Eby stands behind a height-adjustable podium during an announcement at the Seaspan Ferries Tilbury Terminal in Delta, B.C., on Thursday, April 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

‘Explodium’: Mechanical podium aims to even B.C.’s political field no matter height

Podium that can change heights perhaps a more practical option for politicians of all heights

The Edson Forest Area wildfire is shown in a Thursday, May 11, 2023 handout photo. (Alberta Wildfire/Twitter)

Early snowmelt in Western mountains means drier summers, more wildfire risk: study

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Grey Canal Coldstream Valley Estates Trail and interpretive sign. (ROGTS photo)

Celebrate B.C.’s Trails Day in the capital – Vernon

Ribbons of Green Trails Society invites community out for International Trails Day

Madame Cola, designed by Shirley McLim. Can-can dress crafted from pop tabs and crochet thread for the bodice, and coke tins, crochet thread and stiff wire for the skirt. Hat and rose accessories made from coke tins. Model: Tiffany McLim. Photo: Bill Metcalfe

PHOTOS: Nelson fashion show features wearable art made of trash

The show attracted some very skilled designers to work with throw-away materials

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Obituaries

Edris Ann ‘Mickey’ Williams

Mar 21st, 2023

William “Bill” Dumont

Jan 25th, 2023

Patricia Marjorie Codrington White

Jan 4th, 2023

Ernst (Ernie) Sergej Niord Widell

Aug 21st, 2022

Lawrence Bell

Jul 22nd, 2022

Donna J. Crist

Apr 6th, 2022

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FILE - Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it’s gotten permission to begin testing its device in people. The company made the announcement on Twitter Thursday, May 25, but has provided no details about a potential trial, which was not listed on the U.S. government database of trials. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

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