Thieves got away with $30 million US in cash from a money storage facility in Los Angeles by breaking into the building on Easter Sunday and cracking the safe. Now, detectives are seeking to unravel the brazen cash heist, reportedly one of the largest on record in Los Angeles. Police Cmdr. Elaine Morales told The … Read more
British Columbia grain farmer Malcolm Odermatt says all he can do is pray for rain this spring after repeated droughts sabotaged his harvest last year. Odermatt, who is also the president of the B.C. Grain Growers Association, has been working with his father since 2012 to farm about 2,000 acres of land in the Peace … Read more
Amjad Shah is the proprietor of a cotton processing unit in Tral in Pulwama district. Srinagar is just 40 km away. On some weekends, Shah, his wife Urfe and three-year-old son Hibban make their way to the Inox Cinema Complex in Srinagar. Hibban, says Shah, is hooked to the e-gaming zone at the complex. As … Read more
As It Happens6:13More than 100 possible new marine species discovered in a single deepsea expedition During a research expedition off the coast of Chile, Erin Easton says her colleagues were constantly showing her some amazing new sea creature they’d just discovered. “It would just be, like, ‘Erin, Erin, Erin, look!’” Easton, a marine scientist at the University … Read more
The company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion now estimates the project’s costs will come in 10 per cent higher than its May 2023 estimate of $30.9 billion. That’s according to a regulatory filing Trans Mountain Corp. provided to the Canada Energy Regulator on Monday. It represents the latest in a series of cost increases … Read more
Srinagar: On February 22, a momentous occasion unfolded for the Pahari Community in Jammu and Kashmir as they were granted Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. The Lok Sabha had previously endorsed the Constitution (Jammu and Kashmir) Scheduled Tribes Order (Amendment) Bill, 2024 on February 20, which officially added the Pahari Community, along with the Gadda Brahmin … Read more
Some residents of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley were briefly enveloped in shades of pink and purple this morning. In Kelowna, a pink-hued fog appeared for several minutes shortly after 7:30 a.m. PT before returning to the more standard grey. “I thought, ‘OK, what’s going on out there?’” said Lise Guyot of her reaction when she saw the world turn pink … Read more
The Current16:20Huge ancient city discovered in Amazon “Wow” was all archaeologist Stéphen Rostain could say when LiDAR (light detection and ranging) laser technology revealed several ancient cities hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. “It’s a gift for an archaeologist,” he told The Current‘s Matt Galloway. Using the laser-scanning technology, researchers have uncovered a complex network of … Read more
Residents in many areas of B.C. reported feeling the effects of a minor earthquake that struck in B.C.’s Coast Mountains, about 220 kilometres north of Vancouver on Sunday afternoon. Earthquakes Canada says the quake was recorded at 3:23 p.m. PST and registered at a magnitude of 4.9, but so far there are no reports of damage or secondary impacts, … Read more
