Category Archives: British Columbia
Mudslide hits Cache Creek again
CACHE CREEK -UPDATE- The slide location has been updated to 23 kilometers west of Savona towards Cache Creek. Only detour is through Highway 5 North. Another slide has closed the highway north of Cach...
Aug 11, 2018
Hundreds of properties under evacuation order west of Nazko
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Hundreds of properties are being evacuated in the Cariboo Regional District as an expanded evacuation order is issued. 901 properties in the north western CRD Boundary to west of...
Aug 11, 2018
Evacuation alert issued for properties bordering Murray Lake
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Nicola Regional District has issued yet another evacuation alert. The alert has been issued in Electoral Area “N” (Beautiful Nicola Valley Souh), due to the Murray ...
Aug 11, 2018
Cariboo Regional District issues evacuation orders for 128 properties
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The Cariboo Regional District has issued evacuation orders to numerous properties in the Lang Lake/Murphy Lake and Tatelkuz Lake areas. According to a release put out Friday even...
Aug 11, 2018
New deal for government workers
VERNON - Thousands of BC government workers have ratified a new labour deal with the province. The three year agreement covers 26,500 employees in social, environmental and public safety services, as ...
Aug 10, 2018
BC Wildfire Service battling 473 wildfires province-wide
KAMLOOPS - Wildfires continue to rage in BC. According to the latest numbers from the BC Wildfire Service, there are now 473 wildfires burning province-wide – including 31 fires of note. One of ...
Aug 10, 2018
UPDATE: Hundreds of properties under evacuation alert in South Cariboo and Williams Lake areas
100 MILE HOUSE - Update: Another 186 properties in the Cariboo Fire Centre have been placed under an evacuation alert. The affected properties are for an area from Mayfield Lake north to Buckley Drive...
Aug 10, 2018
New fire growing in Pennask area
KAMLOOPS - The Gottfriedsen Mountain fire about 24 kilometres west of West Kelowna and about 8 kilometres north of the Okanagan Connector was estimated at 400 hectares last night and was expected to g...
Aug 10, 2018
Telephone scams making the rounds in Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE - Beware of telephone scammers in Williams Lake. Police are reminding people that the RCMP, the Canada Revenue Agency and the banks will not call and request any personal information reg...
Aug 09, 2018
Bad drivers to pay more in B.C. under new Crown auto insurance plan
VICTORIA - Inexperienced and high-risk drivers would pay more for their vehicle insurance in British Columbia under proposed changes to modernize the province’s Crown auto insurance corporation....
Aug 09, 2018
