Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - British Columbia declared a state of emergency in both 2017 and 2018 during two record-setting years for wildfires. Here's a look at B.C.'s wildfire history: Record years: In 2017, ab...

PENTICTON, B.C. - An evacuation order for a fire in the southern interior of British Columbia has been rescinded while other areas are still seeing raging blazes. Kim Wright, southeast fire centre inf...

VICTORIA - Senator Yuen Pau Woo is advocating for an experimental basic income program at the provincial level, citing the complications to the employment insurance program after the end of the Canada...

PENTICTON, B.C. - A third wildfire near a village at the southern end of Columbia Lake in British Columbia has been added to a list of wildfires of note and prompted...

People living in the Interior will now have closer to home access to specialized cancer care services with a new, state-of-the-art PET/CT scanner suite at the BC Cancer facility in Kelowna.A PET/CT sc...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Teachers' Federation wants the province to reduce class sizes and make the use of masks mandatory wherever physical distancing isn't possible as part of its back-to-school pl...

PENTICTON, B.C. - Hundreds of residents in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are out of their homes and thousands more must be ready to leave on short notice as a nearby wildfire grows in size...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service says crews are tackling a ground fire outside of Lillooet, B.C., that they suspect was human caused, adding to dozens of blazes sparked by recent thunderstorms...

B.C. is reporting 83 new Covid-19 cases, with 91 per cent of those (76 cases) in the Lower Mainland. Just two of the new infections are in the Interior. There are now 775 active cases in the province,...

VANCOUVER - First Nations groups in British Columbia are calling on the federal fisheries minister to issue an emergency order to close all sockeye fisheries on the Fraser River. A joint news rel...