Tag Archives: Environment
No landslide triggered, but threat remains for Sicamous Creek Mobile Home Park
SICAMOUS, B.C. - An evacuation alert remains in effect for 27 units in the Sicamous Creek Mobile Home Park.In an update Friday (May 6), the Columbia Shuswap Regional District says conditions in the Wi...
May 06, 2022
Whiskey Business: Is Scotch The Future Of Fuel?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You may not often hear the words drinking and driving paired in a positive light, but that could change soon enough as a Scottish biofuel company makes hea...
Apr 29, 2022
SD73 students train with BC Wildfire Service firefighters for Junior Fire Crew workshop
KAMLOOPS - Fighting wildfires is a tough, physically demanding job. Long days, little sleep and few comforts await those who choose to battle blazes that ignite in the vast tracts of forest that exist...
Apr 29, 2022
Flood protection work in Riverside Park should be complete by the end of May
KAMLOOPS - Work is progressing at Riverside Park, where the City of Kamloops has undertaken a flood mitigation project along the Rivers Trail. A large portion of the park has been closed to the public...
Apr 20, 2022
VIDEO: 90-year-old Nanaimo gardener takes landscaping to another level
NANAIMO - Maintaining his flawless half acre Nanaimo property offers Leo Katila the gift of being excited to wake up every morning.The 90-year-old's lot is often mistaken for a public park, where a wi...
Apr 04, 2022
Federal funds announced to help Skeetchestn Indian Band build a museum
SKEETCHESTN - On Friday (Apr. 1), Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Marc Miller announced an $825,000 investment for a new museum located on the Skeetchestn Indian Band, near the new health centr...
Apr 01, 2022
Sicamous meeting to inform residents of landslide warning system
SICAMOUS, B.C. - The District of Sicamous will hold a Two Mile Community Meeting to inform residents of a new system designed to provide warnings of possible landslides.The early warning system is bei...
Mar 31, 2022
Search dog training facility almost ready to open in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - In 2019, the Cooper Family Foundation announced they were investing over $40 million dollars in the North Shore. That number included the construction of the Catalpa community on Ord Road n...
Mar 25, 2022
Freezing fog alert issued for the Shuswap: Environment Canada
SALMON ARM, B.C. - Drivers traveling through the Shuswap are told to be prepared for poor visibility and slipper roads Wednesday (March 16) morning.Environment Canada says freezing fog was observed in...
Mar 16, 2022
Air quality advisory issued for Kamloops Wednesday due to 'high concentrations of fine particulate matter'
KAMLOOPS - B.C.'s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, in collaboration with Interior Health, issued an air quality advisory for Kamloops Tuesday (March 15). In a special weather statement post...
Mar 16, 2022
