Category Archives: British Columbia

LUMBY, B.C. - An action plan is underway to reduce the impact of the Fir Bark Beetle in the Lumby area. An outbreak of the pest has produced dead or dying trees on about 45 hectares on the slopes abov...

HAZELTON – A new two-lane bridge on Highway 37 is scheduled to be built across the Nass River, replacing the current one-lane bridge downstream. East of Stewart, the new bridge will allow heavie...

VANCOUVER - A $1.6 billion contract has been awarded for construction of the Site C hydroelectric dam in northeastern British Columbia, just three months after the province’s NDP government relu...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s government is teaming up with Washington state to study a potential high-speed rail link between Vancouver and Seattle. Premier John Horgan says the province will ...

VANCOUVER - A B-C Supreme Court Judge says protesters must be restrained from obstructing the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Justice Kenneth Affleck has granted the company an indefinite in...

VERNON - RCMP are requesting public help to locate a man wanted for several offences in the North Okanagan. Anthony Otto Froese is wanted on three charges which include trafficking a controlled substa...

MERRITT - The Merritt arts community’s dream of adding a performing arts centre looks a little closer to reality this week. The city has received $500,000 through the BC Rural Dividend Program t...

100 MILE HOUSE - As if 100 Mile House hasn’t gone through enough following last year’s weeks-long evacuation due to the devastating wildfires. Now word from Norbord that it plans to suspen...

VERNON - Three members of the Vernon’s so-called Greeks gang have lost their appeals of their November 2012 murder convictions. Peter Manolakos, Leslie Podolski and Sheldon Richard O'Donnell wer...

VERNON - North Okanagan resident Curtis Sagmoen is facing a new charge. RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk with South East District says new information has come to light in relation to an incident which occurred...