Category Archives: Cariboo Region
Evacuation alert issued for properties near 100 Mile House
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Five rural properties along Bridge Creek in the Houseman Road area of the Cariboo, have been placed under an evacuation alert. The affected area is approximately 15 kilometres no...
Apr 28, 2020 Image Credit: File
Quesnel RCMP looking for man who left Logan Lake treatment centre last week
QUESNEL, B.C. - RCMP are asking for help tracking down a man wanted on warrants who left a treatment centre in Logan Lake last week.According to Quesnel RCMP, 20-year-old Kelly Gerk left the treatment...
Apr 28, 2020 Image Credit: Quesnel RCMP
Flood warnings downgraded to watches in Cariboo, Chilcotin
VICTORIA - The B.C. River Forecast Centre (BC RFC) has downgraded flood warnings in place for the Cariboo and Chilcotin regions as the rate of snowmelt has eased in the area.Both regions are now subje...
Apr 28, 2020 Cache Creek on Apr. 21 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Pandemic concerns lead to cancellation of Williams Lake Harvest Fair
WILLIAMS LAKE - Organizers of the Williams Lake Harvest Fair have cancelled the planned 2020 celebration. With the uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials say planning of the event wou...
Apr 26, 2020 Image Credit: Williams Lake Harvest Fair
More Evacuation Orders and Alerts issued in Cariboo - Chilcotin
WILLIAMS LAKE - Flooding led to a series of Evacuation Orders and Evacuation Alerts issued by the Cariboo Regional District's Emergency Operations Centre (CRD EOC) Sunday.An Evacuation Order was issue...
Apr 26, 2020 Image Credit: City of Williams Lake
Cariboo Regional District issues evacuation order and alert for Hawks Creek area properties
WILLIAMS LAKE - UPDATED: The Cariboo Regional District has issued an evacuation order for one of the properties that previously received an alert in the Hawk Creek / Likely Road area. The district say...
Apr 26, 2020 CFJC Today file photo
More Evacuation Orders issued in Cariboo Regional District
WILLIAMS LAKE - Flooding has prompted the Cariboo Regional District to issue new evacuation orders Saturday. One home in the Milburn Lake Road area west of Bouchie Lake is affected. Another property i...
Apr 25, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / File
Cariboo Regional District issues evacuation orders
Williams Lake - Five homes in the Cariboo Regional District (CRD) have fallen under evacuation orders. The orders were issued Friday evening by the CRD Emergency Operations Centre as floodwaters throu...
Apr 24, 2020 Image Credit: Michael Gaida/File
Two killed in south Cariboo Highway 97 crash
CLINTON, B.C. - Two men were killed in a head-on crash in 70 Mile House Thursday afternoon (Apr. 23). Mounties say a 70 Mile House man and a man from Tumbler Ridge were pronounced dead at the scene. B...
Apr 24, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
High water leads to State of Emergency declaration in Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A seven-day State of Local Emergency has been declared in Williams Lake as widespread flooding is being reported across the B.C. Interior. Under the declaration, 11 industrial pr...
Apr 24, 2020 Image Credit: City of Williams Lake
