Severe thunderstorm watch, rainfall warning issued by Environment Canada.

McDonalds donates more than 80 thousand dollars to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation to help pay for an Omni Giraffe bed for premature babies.

Kamloops councillor Singh proposes gondola transportation between Thompson Rivers University and McArthur Island.

Kamloops midwife sees need for a milk bank in the Southern Interior. 

Prime Minister Harper faces concerned caucas after latest developments in senate spending controversy.

Dozens of people who got plum patronage jobs from the Harper government have been donating to the Conservative party despite rules that forbid it.  An investigation by The Canadian Press finds up to 20 per cent of the chairpersons on the Employment Insurance Boards of Referees gave money to political parties.

Victoria Day was observed in downtown Montreal in a way that would likely not amuse the Queen.
A group of hardcore Quebec nationalists threw darts at a photo of Her Majesty.

Funeral services were held in a Winnipeg church last night for Elijah Harper.
Hundreds gathered to honour Harper, who essentially scuttled the Meech Lake constitutional accord in 1990 when he was a member of the Manitoba legislature.

Death and destruction.  Dozens dead, more injured after killer tornado slams Oklahoma.

CBS pulled last night's season-ending episode of ``Mike and Molly'' because the plotline focused on a tornado threatening the couple.   Instead, a rerun of the sitcom was aired out of sensitivity to the victims of the deadly tornado in Oklahoma.

The Taliban is suspected of planting a roadside bomb that killed six police officers in western Afghanistan this morning.

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of 1960s rock group The Doors, has died of cancer at the age of 74.  Manzarek's keyboard work on ``Light My Fire'' has often been called one of the most recognizable sounds in rock history.