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Despite its own recent trauma, Tk'emlps te Secwepemc has opened its land to evacuees that had to leave their homes because of wildfires. Speaking on the NL Morning News, Tk'emlps emergency operations ...

Good news for people who live in 96 properties in the vicinity of the Napier Lake wildfire, south of Kamloops. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has rescinded the evacuation alert today, five days...

It's not a street light, but you could call it the first light in the District of Clearwater. Work is now done on a flashing pedestrian crosswalk across Highway 5, at Clearwater Village Road and the O...

UPDATED: The Embleton Mountain wildfire near Sun Peaks has grown modestly today, now at 466 hectares. That's an increase from 290 hectares at the start of the day. There are 132 properties that remain...

The massive Sparks Lake wildfire northwest of Kamloops was "less active" yesterday, according to the BC Wildfire Service. It is still estimated to be over 40,000 hectares in size, and burning out of c...

With a heat warning once again in place, the City of #Kamloops has reopened the Sandman Centre concourse as a cooling centre. The concourse was used as a cooling centre during the previous heat wave, ...

Four days after a 'dangerous' heat warning was lifted in the Kamloops area, Environment Canada has reissued a heat warning because of increasing temperatures. The weather service says a heat wave will...

An evacuation alert has been issued for all properties within the Sun Peaks Mountain Resort municipal boundaries because of the Embleton Mountain wildfire. The fire, burning about 7 km west of Sun Pea...

For the second straight day, Kamloops firefighters were called to a house on fire in the City, this time on the North Shore. Crews were called to a house on fire at 620 Brentwood Avenue just after 8 p...

The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has upgraded an evacuation alert impacting 132 properties in the village of Whitecroft, west of Sun Peaks, to an evacuation order because of a wildfire. "A wildfi...