TORONTO — There is one winning ticket for Saturday night's $10 million Lotto 649 jackpot — and it was purchased somewhere in Ontario.
The grand prize of the next 649 draw on Feb. 4 will be approximately $5 million.
TORONTO — Several years after selling its U.S. retail banking business, the Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) is venturing south of the border again, with a US$5.4-billion deal to acquire Los Angeles-based City National Corp.
CASTLEGAR, B.C. — Two boys who made an online video titled "How to Kill Your Teacher" have told police in Castlegar, B.C., that it was intended as a joke.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Mounties in British Columbia's Interior say an internal review is now running parallel to the criminal probe into last month's shooting of an RCMP officer.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A proposal by a councillor in Kamloops, B.C., to add the Secwepemc language to some of the city's traffic signs has been stopped in its tracks by provincial legislation.
VANCOUVER — The head of BC Hydro is promising the contentious Site C hydroelectric dam will be built, despite overwhelming opposition and court challenges to the $8.8-billion project.
VICTORIA — The beleaguered mayor of a Vancouver Island community says he's putting personal and business distractions behind him and wants to get on with the job of running the District of Saanich.