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Top Stories for January 22, 2023

LA mass shooting suspect kills 10 near Lunar New Year fest

LA mass shooting suspect kills 10 near Lunar New Year fest

Los Angeles 6:50 pm - 65,263 views

UPDATE: 6:50 p.m. The hunt for a gunman who killed 10 people at a ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations ended Sunday when authorities found him...

Man in medical distress rescued from Mount Boucherie trails

Man in medical distress rescued from Mount Boucherie trails

West Kelowna 10:35 am - 31,856 views

West Kelowna Fire Rescue was called into action early Sunday morning to help rescue a man who was injured on the Mount Boucherie trails. Fire Chief Jason...

Former coach of Kelowna Rockets hired as Canucks' assistant coach

Former coach of Kelowna Rockets hired as Canucks' assistant coach

Kelowna 2:05 pm - 31,342 views

Close to three years after the Kelowna Rockets fired their coach Adam Foote, he's been named as the Vancouver Canucks' assistant coach. After much...

10th annual Okanagan Bridal Expo sees large turnout Sunday afternoon

10th annual Okanagan Bridal Expo sees large turnout Sunday afternoon

Kelowna 5:00 pm - 28,781 views

Hundreds of brides and brides to be flocked to Kelowna Sunday afternoon for the Okanagan Bridal Expo. The 10th annual exposition took place at the Delta Grand...

Fatality near Valemount marks third avalanche-related death this month in B.C.

Fatality near Valemount marks third avalanche-related death this month in B.C.

Valemount 8:08 pm - 24,564 views

One person has died in an avalanche while snowmobiling near Valemount. CTV Vancouver confirmed the fatality on Sunday evening. "We can confirm one...

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Canucks fire coach Boudreau, hire Tocchet as replacement

Canucks fire coach Boudreau, hire Tocchet as replacement

Vancouver 9:00 am - 24,472 views

Bruce Boudreau has been fired as coach of the Vancouver Canucks, who are again on track to miss the playoffs with another underachieving season. The team...

Free program, called Dollars and Sense, will help you get control of your financial situation

Free program, called Dollars and Sense, will help you get control of your financial situation

Kelowna 1:00 pm - 24,455 views

It’s time to get your finances in order, and Launch Okanagan has just the program to help you do that. The non-profit organization, in collaboration with...

Twenty-six days in jail for repeat public masturbator

Twenty-six days in jail for repeat public masturbator

Lillooet 4:00 am - 20,699 views

WARNING: This story contains information some readers might find disturbing. A homeless Lillooet man with a history of masturbating in public has been ordered...

Person missing, man hospitalized after snowmobiles fall through ice in Ontario lake

Person missing, man hospitalized after snowmobiles fall through ice in Ontario lake

Ontario 3:00 pm - 16,161 views

One person is missing and another is in hospital after their snowmobiles fell through the ice into the water of a southern Ontario lake. Ontario Provincial...

Priscilla Presley tells Lisa Marie she will always be loved at emotional Graceland memorial

Priscilla Presley tells Lisa Marie she will always be loved at emotional Graceland memorial

Entertainment 11:05 am - 15,369 views

Priscilla Presley has told her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley she will always be loved at an emotional memorial service for the singer. She spoke at the...

Despite staffing crisis, nurses face roadblocks in upgrading, returning from retirement

Despite staffing crisis, nurses face roadblocks in upgrading, returning from retirement

BC 10:00 am - 14,957 views

Some nurses answering the province’s call to return to their profession or upgrade their skills say they are hitting roadblocks. They’re asking for...

Abbotsford Police say initial investigation suggests targeted incident

Abbotsford Police say initial investigation suggests targeted incident

Abbotsford 6:30 am - 14,891 views

Police in Abbotsford are looking for witnesses and dashcam footage following a shooting near the airport that sent four people to hospital. Officers were called...

Abandoned mines among most expensive territorial contaminated sites

Abandoned mines among most expensive territorial contaminated sites

Yukon 9:00 am - 13,564 views

Environmental advocates say costly cleanups of former non-renewable resource projects in the North show the need for better planning. Three of Canada’s...

Deadly California shooting casts pall over Canadian Lunar New Year festivities

Deadly California shooting casts pall over Canadian Lunar New Year festivities

Vancouver 7:00 pm - 12,023 views

The joy of Lunar New Year parades, parties and other festivities was tempered with sadness on Sunday following a deadly mass shooting in California that...

Injured snowmobiler rescued from the backcountry east of Enderby Saturday

Injured snowmobiler rescued from the backcountry east of Enderby Saturday

Enderby 8:15 am - 11,341 views

An injured snowmobiler was rescued from the backcountry east of Enderby Saturday afternoon. Vernon Search and Rescue was called to the Hunters Range snowmobile...

Buy Back Your Time, from local author Dan Martell, hit shelves this week

Buy Back Your Time, from local author Dan Martell, hit shelves this week

Kelowna 4:00 am - 10,458 views

An Okanagan author’s book about scaling a company, growing rich and doing so without ruining your personal life hit shelves earlier this week....

84 per cent of grants received by City of Kelowna went to airport projects

84 per cent of grants received by City of Kelowna went to airport projects

Kelowna 4:00 am - 10,188 views

Kelowna International Airport received the lion's share of provincial, federal and private grants received by the city in 2022. According to a report...

Popular Ukrainian musician rocks Kelowna Saturday night

Popular Ukrainian musician rocks Kelowna Saturday night

Kelowna 4:00 am - 10,028 views

A well-known Ukrainian musician made his way through Kelowna this weekend as part of his Big Canadian Tour, raising money to help his fellow Ukrainians defend...

North Okanagan still has a small Jewish population

North Okanagan still has a small Jewish population

Okanagan history 4:00 am - 9,627 views

The first Jewish settlers came to B.C. after the 1850s - during the Gold Rush - and settled mostly in Vancouver. These first Jewish people were from other...

City council votes to phase out patio extensions, bring in new program

City council votes to phase out patio extensions, bring in new program

Kamloops 4:00 am - 8,170 views

Work crews will begin to dismantle several of the brick sidewalk extensions set up around downtown Kamloops and on the Tranquille corridor this coming spring....

Almost constant chance of showers in week ahead for Vancouver

Almost constant chance of showers in week ahead for Vancouver

Vancouver 11:30 am - 7,395 views

With 110 mm of rain so far this month, Vancouver is a bit behind its average for January despite some heavy days of rain. But this week, it might catch up a...

Moving from frustration to calm

Moving from frustration to calm

The Happiness Connection 11:00 am - 7,356 views

I spent more time than I care to think about on the phone with CRA last week. I didn’t expect it to be easy and it wasn’t. I found myself with a...

Grocer code of conduct could help reduce loss of trust in sector

Grocer code of conduct could help reduce loss of trust in sector

Writer's Bloc 4:00 am - 7,179 views

A grocer code of conduct is coming to Canada. The United Kingdom and Australia, where grocer oligopolies exist, have a similar code already. This is great news...

Police investigate after Toronto bus operator shot with BB gun; no injuries reported

Police investigate after Toronto bus operator shot with BB gun; no injuries reported

Toronto 7:02 pm - 7,081 views

The Toronto Police Service is investigating after a bus driver was shot with a BB gun. Police say a TTC operator was waiting to take over a bus on Saturday...

2020 Winemaker’s CUT Q&A

2020 Winemaker’s CUT Q&A

Wine Reviews 4:00 am - 6,879 views

Wine: Q&A, 2020 (red blend) Winery: Winemaker’s CUT, Oliver Why drink it? This wine is a blend in two ways. First, a blend of the three...

Remote Labrador location potential training ground for astronauts

Remote Labrador location potential training ground for astronauts

Labrador 6:45 am - 6,287 views

When scientists determined in the mid-1970s that the Mistastin crater in Labrador had lunar-like properties, the last Apollo mission had flown and it was too...

Federal cabinet set for three-day retreat in Hamilton ahead of Parliament's return

Federal cabinet set for three-day retreat in Hamilton ahead of Parliament's return

Ontario 6:20 am - 6,033 views

The ongoing affordability crunch and the threat of a looming recession will be front and centre as the federal Liberal cabinet holds a post-holiday cabinet...

Ontario pediatric hospitals ask for help to deal with backlog of 12,000 surgeries

Ontario pediatric hospitals ask for help to deal with backlog of 12,000 surgeries

Ontario 8:30 am - 5,970 views

Nearly 12,000 children are on a wait list for surgeries across Ontario, a situation officials at four major pediatric hospitals say is part of a much bigger...

Purdy, 49ers beat Cowboys 19-12, advance to NFC title game

Purdy, 49ers beat Cowboys 19-12, advance to NFC title game

NFL 7:51 pm - 5,428 views

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Christian McCaffrey scored on a go-ahead 2-yard run in the fourth quarter and San Francisco’s defense did the rest, sending the...

Depleted Bills produce a dud in playoff loss to Bengals

Depleted Bills produce a dud in playoff loss to Bengals

NFL 6:10 pm - 5,247 views

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Adversity finally caught up to the Buffalo Bills, who were left depleted and defeated while closing an emotionally draining season...

Rockets fall to 2-11 since Christmas following lacklustre loss to Victoria

Rockets fall to 2-11 since Christmas following lacklustre loss to Victoria

WHL 7:00 pm - 4,968 views

The Kelowna Rockets continue to tumble down the Western Conference standings. Sunday, the Rockets saw their post-Christmas record fall to 2-11 in an uninspiring...

B.C. researcher unveils space yeast that could enable deep-space travel

B.C. researcher unveils space yeast that could enable deep-space travel

BC 10:30 am - 4,730 views

On Dec. 14, 1972, geologist Jack Schmitt packed 110 kilograms of rock into Apollo 17’s lunar lander. Mission Commander Eugene A. Cernan gazed out onto the...

Drunk man arrested for blocking laneway with vehicle, knocking on random doors: police

Drunk man arrested for blocking laneway with vehicle, knocking on random doors: police

Kamloops 12:00 pm - 4,639 views

An intoxicated man was arrested following multiple reports of him knocking on random doors, according to police. Mounties said they responded to a call on Leigh...

Embracing Lunar New Year with lucky money, lion dance

Embracing Lunar New Year with lucky money, lion dance

Victoria 9:30 am - 4,628 views

You won’t find Annette Quan cleaning her house today. While not usually a superstitious ­person Quan, a third-generation Chinese-Canadian, still holds...

Vernon considers removing minimum width regulations to speed up housing

Vernon considers removing minimum width regulations to speed up housing

Vernon 4:00 am - 4,544 views

Vernon could soon see more skinny homes as council is set to consider removing minimum width regulations from its zoning bylaws. The move would allow higher...

Landslide mitigation work on Lillooet Lake to go ahead

Landslide mitigation work on Lillooet Lake to go ahead

Lillooet Lake 9:10 am - 4,441 views

Following a successful local area service petition last year, residents of the Lillooet Lake Estates (LLE) community southeast of Pemberton may soon see some...

Two kittens full of energy are ready to adopt from the Critteraid Animal Sanctuary in Summerland

Two kittens full of energy are ready to adopt from the Critteraid Animal Sanctuary in Summerland

Summerland 4:00 am - 4,342 views

If you enjoy a good laugh caused by two rambunctious kitties playing with one another, then the Critteraid Animal Sanctuary in Summerland has the pair for you....

Coldstream asked for increase in temporary farm workers at VegPro

Coldstream asked for increase in temporary farm workers at VegPro

Coldstream 8:00 am - 4,168 views

Coldstream staff are recommending council make provisions that would allow for more temporary farm workers. In a report that will be presented to council at...

More than 500 signatures on chamber's petition for potential affordable housing solution

More than 500 signatures on chamber's petition for potential affordable housing solution

Kamloops 12:13 pm - 3,860 views

The Kamloops & District Chamber of Commerce has received more than 500 signatures in support of its land trust tax policy petition, which means it can now...

Summerland council looking at next steps for replacing Summerland Aquatic & Fitness Centre

Summerland council looking at next steps for replacing Summerland Aquatic & Fitness Centre

Summerland 4:00 am - 3,768 views

Summerland council will be setting up the next steps toward the goal of replacing the Summerland Aquatic & Fitness Centre on Monday, deciding when a...

Castanet's Week in Review with Brayden Ursel

Castanet's Week in Review with Brayden Ursel

Kelowna 12:00 pm - 3,706 views

Castanet's Week in Review with Brayden Ursel for the week of January 15, 2023.

City of Vernon seeks solution to Okanagan Landing drainage woes

City of Vernon seeks solution to Okanagan Landing drainage woes

Vernon 12:00 pm - 3,503 views

Perennial water woes along Okanagan Landing Road could soon be coming to an end. A report to city council states staff have been working for several years to...

Sovereign 2 SilverStar Ski Marathon joins 4-event series

Sovereign 2 SilverStar Ski Marathon joins 4-event series

Vernon 2:00 pm - 2,996 views

Vernon's Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre is expanding its Sovereign 2 SilverStar Ski Marathon as part of a four-event loppet. The Pacific Northwest Loppet...

Starting a business? Community Futures North Okanagan can help

Starting a business? Community Futures North Okanagan can help

Vernon 7:00 pm - 2,634 views

Thinking about starting a business? Community Futures North Okanagan can help. CFNO's self employment program offers an in-depth introduction to business...

Eight organizations receive 2023 Social and Community Development Grants

Eight organizations receive 2023 Social and Community Development Grants

Kamloops 6:00 pm - 2,266 views

Eight organizations have received grant funding from the City of Kamloops to support projects which seek to address specific issues identified in the...

City of Kamloops to host public 2023 budget meeting next month

City of Kamloops to host public 2023 budget meeting next month

Kamloops 4:00 am - 1,640 views

The City of Kamloops will be hosting a public meeting next month to discuss the city’s 2023 budget. During Tuesday’s city council meeting, CAO David...