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The Ontario government says it no longer plan to introduce a new bottle deposit-return system for non-alcoholic beverages due to “significant costs” it would add for small business and families.

Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for much of the Southern Interior region with temperatures expected to soar on the weekend.The heat warning for the entire Okanagan Valley, Shuswap, Thompson, Nicola and Similkameen with temperatures predicted to reach the high 30s or low 40s Sunday w…

An Edmonton basketball coach has been charged with sexual assault, among other charges, after a teenage girl he was coaching reported that he’d assaulted her.

A Kelowna fraudster who stole hundreds of thousands of government dollars in the name of vulnerable Indigenous youth will be fully paroled by the middle of July.

Homicide investigators have released a video showing a man who police say is a person of interest in the murder of an 18-year-old in Maple Ridge, B.C.

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says he is ‘looking forward to making a real difference’ as the government’s new special adviser on Jewish community relations and antisemitism.

Mounties seized 2,300 cartons of contraband cigarettes valued at more than $400,000 during a traffic stop on Vancouver Island last month.

Ontario Provincial Police allege a 14-year-old took their parents’ car to get food before crashing into another vehicle and then fleeing on foot when it caught fire.

As the NDP government moves to protect tenants in B.C. from bad-faith evictions – some who work in the housing industry are pushing back.