Category Archives: News
Steelhead trout population in Fraser River in decline
According to fisheries stock assessment biologist Robert Bison who is in charge of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Interior Fraser Wild Steelhead conservation program, the Steelhe...
Aug 11, 2021
BC politicians say precautions are being taken for upcoming heat wave
B-C politicians and the provincial health officer are trying reassure residents as a third heat wave descends on several parts of the province. Health Minister Adrian Dix says they're kicking the ambu...
Aug 11, 2021
White Rock Lake Fire flares up overnight
Fire crews had to work fast last night to slow a flare-up on the southeast flank of the White Rock Lake wildfire -- which has now scorched 565 square kilometres of bush between Kamloops and the northw...
Aug 11, 2021 Photo courtesy BC Wildfire Service
Protest in Fairy Creek over cutting of old growth trees results in arrests
One man says he suffered a broken ankle after alleged excessive actions by the R-C-M-P during a series of arrests at Fairy Creek. The arrests came on the one-year anniversary of the start of the block...
Aug 11, 2021
COVID infection rate rises in BC
The COVID-19 infection rate in British Columbia has leaped to 536, a figure not seen since mid-May. A Health Ministry statement says there are more than 3,500 active cases in the province and more tha...
Aug 11, 2021
BC Chamber of Commerce adds two new Indigenous members to board of directors
The B-C Chamber of Commerce has added two new members to its board of directors -- both Indigenous leaders from Kamloops. Board chair Joelle Westlund says Korah DeWalt-Gagnon and George Casimir will b...
Aug 10, 2021
Huawei executive supposedly receiving extradition hearing later this week
Lawyers for Canada's attorney general are expected to argue against a stay of proceedings in the extradition case of Meng Wanzhou. Today's arguments are expected to be the last before the actual extra...
Aug 10, 2021
White Rock Lake fire evac order downgraded
An evacuation order in response to the White Rock Lake wildfire burning between Kamloops and Okanagan Lake has been downgraded by the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, allowing some residents in the...
Aug 10, 2021 Photo courtesy BC Wildfire Service
Three First Nations taking steps to find the fates of kids who went to Residential School
Three First Nations in Metro Vancouver are taking the first steps toward finding out what happened to children who died -- or vanished -- while attending the St. Paul's Indian Residential School in No...
Aug 10, 2021
Unifor 2301 and Rio Tinto will meet on Thursday
Rio Tinto and Unifor Local 2301 will be meeting this Thursday to determine if there is enough common ground to re-start negotiations in hopes of ending the strike at the company's Kitimat aluminum sme...
Aug 10, 2021