Category Archives: British Columbia
COVID-19 update Tuesday: 641 new cases
New COVID-19 cases are showing no signs of slowing down in British Columbia. B.C.'s Health Ministry reported 641 new infections on Tuesday, up from the 442 on Monday and the 545 reported on Sunday. In...
Aug 24, 2021
COVID shots in incorrect freezer prompts vaccine callback at B.C.'s Interior Health
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - More than 500 people in the Interior Health region will need to get another COVID-19 vaccine shot after officials there say some of the doses were kept in an incorrect freezer. A st...
Aug 24, 2021
UPDATE: Crews work to contain Mt. Law wildfire
Officials say the threat has eased through much of the Mount Law wildfire with milder weather, but the West Kelowna blaze is still uncontained in areas. The BC Wildfire Service says the fire remains a...
Aug 24, 2021
78 properties confirmed with fire damage west of Okanagan Lake
Activity on the White Rock Lake fire has been minimal the last few days along the south, west and northern flanks, but that is expected to increase this week as the temperatures and winds rise. A burn...
Aug 24, 2021
Storage error impacts vaccines in Revelstoke
Interior Health recently discovered doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Revelstoke were stored in an incorrect freezer and are considered invalid.The vaccine had been administered as 15 first do...
Aug 24, 2021
RCMP arrest eight as protests continue against old-growth logging in B.C.
LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - The Mounties have made another eight arrests as they enforce a B.C. Supreme Court injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island. ...
Aug 24, 2021
Crews fighting wildfires in B.C. aided by cooler and unseasonably low temperatures
VANCOUVER - The BC Wildfire Service says cooler and below seasonal average temperatures have helped crews fight the blazes. Fire information officer Taylor Colman says crews are seeing between three a...
Aug 24, 2021
Nanaimo RCMP investigating 'serious assault' in downtown from July
NANAIMO - Local police are looking for leads in relation to what they label a "possible serious assault."Emergency services were called to the corner of Terminal Ave. and Wentworth St., near Comox Rd....
Aug 24, 2021
Nanaimo man avoids jail despite 'quite horrific' child porn collection
NANAIMO - A man busted with a substantial child porn haul will serve his sentence at home as opposed to behind bars.Tori Bruce Schild, 31, was sentenced on Monday, Aug. 23 to one year of house arrest ...
Aug 24, 2021
B.C. officials to show and tell on COVID-19 health and safety measures in schools
VICTORIA - Students in Kindergarten to Grade 12 and those attending post-secondary schools in British Columbia will get the COVID-19 lesson plan on health and safety today. Provincial health officer D...
Aug 24, 2021
