Category Archives: 2018

The province has brokered a new deal which will see senior and disability support workers under contract for 3 more years. Members of the Community Bargaining Association and the Health Employers̵...

July was a record shattering month in BC for more than just temperatures. According to BC Hydro, July marked 14 days with more than 7 thousand megawatts of peak hourly power usage, a new record for a ...

The Level 3 drought issued earlier in the week has been continued and expanded across the BC coastline. Level 3 is the second highest stage that can be declared by the Ministry of Forests and Lands an...

Wildfires have prompted two new evacuation alerts in the Quesnel Lake area. 93 properties in the Haggen’s Point and Hen Ingram Lake areas were issued evacuation alerts by the Cariboo Regional Di...

Construction is slated to begin on 36 new affordable supportive housing units in Prince Rupert. The units are intended to ease the burdens of homelessness so that residents can focus on improving othe...

Seven new fires have been reported in the Cassiar fire zone since yesterday afternoon and are currently producing smoke visible from the highway. The most concerning of the fires is a lightning caused...

The Cariboo Fire Centre is expecting to respond to plenty of new fires. Officials recorded over a thousand lightning strikes in a 24 hour period awith more lightning expected today (Tuesday) and into ...

The deadline for food producers to apply for organic certification ahead of new, stricter, regulations is fast approaching. As of September first, any producer looking to market their food as organic ...

A Smithers resident has filed a challenge that could pose a problem for LNG Canada’s proposed plant in Kitimat. Michael D Sawyer filed his challenge yesterday with the National Energy Board clai...

Environment Canada says 13 temperature records were set in BC Monday, one going all the way back to 1800’s. Burns Lake reached a high of 34.1 degrees, up from the previous record of 33.3 set in ...