Category Archives: British Columbia
Planned back burns help contain aggressive wildfire near Osoyoos, B.C.
OSOYOOS, B.C. - Crews say they are making good progress taming a wildfire that has prompted evacuation alerts for several properties in British Columbia's southern Okanagan. The BC Wildfire Servi...
May 16, 2019
Canadian among six dead in mid-air float plane crash in Alaska
VANCOUVER - Six people are now confirmed dead in the midair crash of two sightseeing floatplanes in Alaska, including one Canadian, the U.S. Coast Guard said late Tuesday. The U.S. agency released the...
May 16, 2019
Suspect flips truck, arrested at Vernon golf course
VERNON, B.C. - A man who allegedly stole a dump truck and crashed it, was arrested shortly after Predator Ridge Golf Resort.The truck was reportedly stolen this morning and then driven on Eastside Roa...
May 15, 2019 Image Credit: Kerri Zboyousky-Murphy
B.C. woman and her American husband among six killed in Alaska crash
VANCOUVER - Friends and colleagues are mourning a Metro Vancouver couple who were active in the region's booming technology industry before their lives were cut short in a float pl...
May 15, 2019
B.C. to hold public inquiry into money laundering
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government will hold a public inquiry into money laundering. Premier John Horgan says money laundering has had numerous impacts on people in the province...
May 15, 2019
Tanya Tagaq, Joshua Whitehead among finalists for Indigenous Voices Awards
VANCOUVER - The Indigenous Voices Awards are building on their inaugural success as a launching pad for Indigenous literary talent with a fresh crop of finalists, an organizer says. Tanya Tagaq and Jo...
May 15, 2019
Danger subsiding after B.C. properties threatened by several weekend wildfires
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service has come through its busiest period of the young 2019 wildfire season, responding to several blazes, including one that prompted an evacuation order&...
May 15, 2019
Out-of-control wildfire near Osoyoos, B.C., scorches four square kilometres
OSOYOOS, B.C. - A growing wildfire in British Columbia's southern Okanagan region has prompted additional evacuation alerts for several properties west of the town of Osoyoos. Residents of 13 pro...
May 15, 2019
Two workers injured after fire at Spallumcheen farm
SPALLUMCHEEN, B.C. - Two employees were injured after a fire broke out at a farm on McLeery Road in Spallumcheen this morning.The Armstrong-Spallumcheen Fire Department found a shed on the site in the...
May 14, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Wildfire prompts evacuation order, state of emergency in central B.C.
FRASER LAKE, B.C. - Fraser Lake Mayor Sarrah Storey was driving back from a soccer tournament out of town when she saw the skyline transformed by a wildfire creeping up a mountain on the edge of ...
May 14, 2019
