Category Archives: News
Federal Government signs fisheries agreement with the eight coastal First Nations
The federal government has signed a fisheries agreement with the eight Coastal First Nations in the north and central coast and Haida Gwaii. The Fisheries Resources Reconciliation Agreement provides f...
Aug 06, 2021
White Rock Lake fire grows overnight and forces more evacuation orders
The B-C Wildfire Service says the blaze that destroyed many properties around Monte Lake southwest of Kamloops grew dramatically overnight. The White Rock Lake fire is now estimated at 450-square kilo...
Aug 06, 2021 Photo courtesy BC Wildfire Service
Government of Canada launching new development agency in BC
The Government of Canada has created a plan, via Budget 2021, to set businesses on a path for long-term growth, and to ensure that Canada's future will be not only be healthier, but more equitable, gr...
Aug 05, 2021
Quebec implementing Vaccine passport system
Quebec Premier Franois Legault announced earlier today that the province will be implementing a vaccine passport system sometime in the next few weeks. Legault also said that details of the system wil...
Aug 05, 2021
BC Liberal candidate calls for greater provincial investment in Northwest Region
BC Liberal leadership candidate Michael Lee gave an ad vocation for greater provincial investment in the city of Terrace as well as a "different path forward" during one of his campaign stops in Terra...
Aug 05, 2021
Residents living between Kamloops and Vernon hit with evacuation order
Hundreds of residents living along a stretch of Highway 97 between Kamloops and Vernon have been told to evacuate as the White Rock Lake wildfire advances. There's concern that winds today could fan t...
Aug 05, 2021
All COVID cases in BC linked to unimmunized patients
Almost every case of COVID-19 in B-C right now is linked to patients between the ages of 20 and 40 who are either unimmunized or who have only had a single dose of vaccine. Provincial health officer D...
Aug 05, 2021
BC researchers map out loss of Salmon Habitat in Lower Fraser River
Researchers at the University of B-C say -- for the first time ever -- the extent of salmon habitat loss has been mapped in the Lower Fraser River and the findings are grave. A team from the faculty o...
Aug 05, 2021
Skeena-Bulkley MP looks to raise sunken tugboat
Taylor Bachrach, a Skeena-Bulkley MP with the Ministry of Transportation stated back on July 31st that tugboat and worker safety, as well as concerns surrounding the raising of the sunken tug, the Ing...
Aug 05, 2021
Repairs on Williams Lake part of Dog Creek Road could cost around $430,000
Closing the city of Williams Lake's part of Dog Creek Road until the road's water issues can be fixed is one of the options that city council is being asked to look at after the amount of money that w...
Aug 04, 2021