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Fiery crash closes Trans Canada Highway between Cache Creek and Spences Bridge
UPDATE 6 p.m. - The Trans-Canada Highway remains closed in both directions between Cache Creek and Spences Bridge due to a fiery crash early this morning. Drive BC says the highway was closed three ki...
Oct 05, 2023 Photo via Skilled Truckers Canada
New BC legislation set to ban public use of illegal drugs
The BC Government has tabled new legislation to address the public use of illegal drugs in communities across the province. If passed, the legislation will ban public drug use within six metres of all...
Oct 05, 2023 Person preparing to use drugs in public/via GlobalBC
CSRD lifts final North Shuswap evacuation orders
The Columbia-Shuswap Regional District has lifted the final evacuation orders in the North Shuswap. This final evacuation order covered 189 properties that were severely impacted by the Bush Creek Eas...
Oct 05, 2023 Photo via CSRD
Municipal adviser won't be able to recommend dissolution of Kamloops council: Ministry
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs says while work to select a municipal adviser to work with the City of Kamloops will begin soon, the person appointed to that role won't be able to recommend the dism...
Oct 05, 2023 Kamloops City Council in a screenshot from a YouTube video outlining its Strategic Plan. (Photo via City of Kamloops)
Kamloops taxpayers to cover nearly $700K in Clean Team, CSO outreach costs as grant funding ends
Kamloops taxpayers will be picking up the tab for a pair of social programs that were funded with a provincial grant that is no longer available. City Council voted 8-0 to spend $682,000 to continue t...
Oct 04, 2023
Over $720 million in insured damage caused by 2023 BC wildfire season
The Insurance Bureau of Canada says this summer's wildfire season in British Columbia was the costliest disaster in the province in terms of insured losses, and tenth costliest in Canada. It says the ...
Oct 04, 2023 A look at the Bush Creek East Fire in the Sorrento area around 9pm, Aug. 18, 2023. (Photo via CSRD)
Barriere mayor unhappy with make up of Premier's expert task force on emergencies
The Mayor of Barriere is not happy with the make up of Premier David Eby's expert task force on emergencies. Ward Stamer - who was calling for a third-party review of the good, the bad, and the ugly o...
Oct 03, 2023 Barriere Mayor Ward Stamer
B.C. disaster response outdated and inaccessible for evacuees: ombudsperson report
Emergency support programs for disaster evacuees in British Columbia are outdated, under-resourced, inaccessible and poorly communicated, according to a report by the province's ombudsperson. Ombudspe...
Oct 03, 2023 The McArthur Island Emergency Reception Centre in Kamloops. (Photo via Victor Kaisar)
Three Kamloops-area representatives named to Premier's expert task force on emergencies
Three of the 14 people on Premier David Eby's expert task force on wildfires, drought, heat, floods, and other emergencies, will be from the Kamloops-area. Thompson-Nicola Regional District CAO Scott ...
Oct 03, 2023 Photo via BC Wildfire Service
B.C. NDP tables new disaster management bill as fall legislative session gets underway
New disaster management legislation has been introduced in British Columbia on the first day of the fall legislative session in Victoria. Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma said Tuesday the legis...
Oct 03, 2023 BC Premier David Eby in Kamloops on Sept. 11, 2023, as part of his trek to visit wildfire affected communities in the BC Interior (Photo via Abby Zieverink)
