Tag Archives: Environment

PRINCE GEORGE - Evacuation alerts across the province are now totalling 100, as wildfires continue to burn in B.C.Evacuations:Evacuation orders: 64 (-1)Evacuation alerts: 100 (+1)Properties:Number of ...

NANAIMO - Many areas of Nanaimo felt its first drop of rain in months over the August long weekend, but none fell where it mattered most. The Environment Canada sensor stationed at Nanaimo Airport rec...

VALEMOUNT - The public is still advised to stay away near the Swift Creek area.The Village of Valemount and the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George said the landslide remains active and conditions...

VALEMOUNT - Residents are being advised of an active landslide approximately three kilometers upstream of Swift Creek from the Village of Valemount northerly boundary.The Village of Valemount and the ...

PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Wildfire Service will undertake planned ignitions on the Tentfire Creek wildfire to remove unburned fuel in the fire's path, thereby helping to limit the fire's potential for gr...

PRINCE GEORGE - It was exactly the signal City Councillor Murry Krause was waiting for. The Province has given local governments carte blanche to introduce bans on single-use plastics. The provincial ...

NANAIMO - Volunteer firefighters are credited with keeping a blaze south of Nanaimo from causing significant destruction to a tree farm. The Extension Volunteer Fire Department was called to Gogo's Ch...

PRINCE GEORGE - As fires continue to burn across the province, three area restrictions remain in the Prince George Fire Centre.Cutoff Creek, Grizzly Lake and Klawli Lake all still currently have an ar...

KAMLOOPS - As of Sunday (July 25) morning, there are 257 active wildfires in B.C.Provincially, it's one fewer than Saturday but well down from nearly 300 earlier in the week.B.C. Wildfire Service Fire...

WILLIAMS LAKE - Two evacuation orders were rescinded by the Cariboo Regional District on Saturday (July 24).The first rescission affects a portion of the Flat Lake to Green Lake North order issued on ...