Category Archives: News
Wildfire Evacuation Help for Livestock
The Agriculture Ministry is urging ranchers and livestock operators to register with a program that could help save the lives of animals in wildfire evacuation zones. An unprecedented heat wave...
Jul 02, 2021 BLMIdaho / CC
Lytton Devastated By Wildfire
Residents of Lytton were ordered to evacuate their homes last night due to a wildfire that spread quickly. Mayor Jan Polderman of Lytton issued the order, saying residents and structures were threaten...
Jul 02, 2021 Photo courtesy BC Wildfire Service
A Painful Reminder Removed From Lower Post
June 30th marked an important day for the survivors of a former residential school in Lower Post. 46 years to the day after the school closed in 1975, the Daylu Dena Council held an important gatherin...
Jun 30, 2021 Premier John Horgan, announcing the funding for the new community centre in Lower Post. Source: Province of B.C.
Fast and Furious Update
The identity and details of last Friday's highway 16 high speed chase have been released by RCMP. A black Honda Civic exited a line of stopped traffic and accelerated rapidly toward a police officer t...
Jun 30, 2021
More unmarked Graves In Lower Kootenay
The Lower Kootenay Band in B-C's southern Interior says a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site close to a former residential school operated b...
Jun 30, 2021
Flood Watch for Chilcotin Upgraded to Warning
BC's heatwave is triggering rapid thaws in the high snow pack which means the flood watch affecting the Chilcotin area has been upgraded to a flood warning by the BC River Forecast Centre. The ...
Jun 30, 2021
Dangers of Heat Exposure
As the high temperatures continue to be present for much of Northern BC into the start of July, Northern Health is once again reminding all residents and visitors to be aware of the risks of too much ...
Jun 30, 2021
Kitimat Every Child Matters Soccer Tournament
While the town of Kitimat is scaling back its traditional Canada Day Festivities, they will be going ahead with the Every Child Matters Memorial Soccer Tournament, for Canada Day and the coming weeken...
Jun 30, 2021
Province Wide Campfire Ban
The B-C Wildfire Service has banned campfires across the province starting at noon today. The ban will remain in effect until October 15th, as will a ban on larger open fires announced last week. Camp...
Jun 30, 2021
Ottawa Peace Tower Flag Half Mast
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he requested the national flag on the Peace Tower remain at half-mast for Canada Day to honour the Indigenous children who died in residential schools. Trudeau says ...
Jun 30, 2021