Author Archives: James Peters
BC Wildfire Service issues reminder to protect properties despite slower wildfire season
KAMLOOPS - Thanks to the cooler, rainier weather in July, the Kamloops Fire Centre has experienced much fewer fires than this time last year. Fire Information Officer Taylor MacDonald says the BC Wild...
Jul 22, 2019 Image Credit: File Photo / CFJC Today
Crash closes Trans Canada Highway at Tappen
SALMON ARM, B.C. - UPDATE: BC Emergency Health Services says the patient transported to hospital via air ambulance has life-threatening injuries. Of the three transported by ground ambulance, one is i...
Jul 22, 2019
Do you plan to spend your summer vacation in the Cariboo-Thompson-Shuswap region?
Jul 22, 2019
Father of slain man says couple's double homicide in B.C. devastating for two families
SURREY, B.C. - The father of an Australian man who was gunned down with his girlfriend while travelling on a remote British Columbia highway says the deaths are a tragic end to a love story between th...
Jul 22, 2019
Wildfire near Savona now under control
KAMLOOPS - A wildfire which popped up near Savona on Sunday grew to two hectares, but is now under control.BC Wildfire information officer Taylor MacDonald says the fire is not expected to grow past i...
Jul 22, 2019 Image Credit: BC Government
Two men missing from Surrey; vehicle found near Logan Lake
LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - Police are asking for the public's help in locating two men missing from Surrey. Surrey RCMP say in a news release that Richard Scurr and Ryan Provencher were last seen at 12:30 p.m...
Jul 22, 2019
PETERS: Apollo astronauts embodied human instinct for exploration
ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE APOLLO 11 mission that saw humans land on the moon for the first time, it is appropriate that we ask the question, what are we doing in space? Three Apollo astronauts we...
Jul 19, 2019
RCMP investigating double homicide of Australian man, U.S. girlfriend found along Alaska Highway
RCMP are investigating the homicides of two people found dead along the Alaska Highway in northern B.C. Police in Australia have identified one of the victims as Lucas Fowler, the son of a senior Aust...
Jul 19, 2019 Image Credit: New South Wales Police Force
Cariboo Regional District says 47 properties impacted by flooding
BIG CREEK, B.C. - The Cariboo Regional District says 47 properties have been impacted by flooding. The district says in a news release that the affected properties are in the Big Creek area. Among tho...
Jul 18, 2019 Image Credit: Canadian Press
Balance of Power: B.C. Child and Family Development Minister Katrine Conroy, and Shane Gottfriedson of Project Reconciliation
This week on Balance of Power, host James Peters talks to B.C. Child and Family Development Minister Katrine Conroy about the cost of child care in this province, as well as the controversy surroundin...
Jul 18, 2019
