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Planned ignition targets last challenging section of White Rock Lake wildfire
August 30, 2021 - 6:40 PM

VERNON, B.C. - A planned ignition covering around 30 square kilometres is underwayat the northeast corner of the destructive White Rock Lake wildfire west of Vernon, B.C., while hundreds of properties have been put on evacuation alert due to a different fire burning near Penticton, BC.
B.C. wildfires trending in right direction, fire service manager says
August 24, 2021 - 3:49 PM

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A manager for British Columbia's wildfire service says conditions are trending in the right direction with the number of fires that threaten public safety and property dropping down to two dozen from 30 early this month.
B.C. says accommodations for wildfire evacuees are filling up as evacuations continue
July 18, 2021 - 2:04 PM

VICTORIA - British Columbia's government says accommodations for wildfire evacuees are filling up as the flames and smoke from numerous blazes spread, forcing more people from their homes and contributing to an eerie, acrid haze that's blanketing cities in neighbouring Alberta.
Fire experts prescribe Indigenous cultural burns to reduce wildfire risk in B.C.
July 18, 2021 - 1:00 AM

VANCOUVER - Wildfire experts say British Columbia must spark far more prescribed burns, akin to how Indigenous communities have managed forests, to mitigate the risk of huge blazes.
B.C. search and rescue finds lost hikers on first-ever night-vision training session
December 25, 2020 - 2:42 PM

VANCOUVER - A volunteer search and rescue team in North Vancouver, B.C., performed an unexpected nighttime rescue on Wednesday -- the first time they were training to use their new night-vision equipment.
One entangled humpback whale off B.C. coast free of fishing gear
September 11, 2020 - 7:02 PM

VANCOUVER - One of the three humpback whales entangled in fishing gear off the coast of British Columbia is now free, although the two other animals have not been located.
One home burned in B.C. wildfire, hundreds evacuated, thousands more on notice
August 19, 2020 - 2:51 PM

PENTICTON, B.C. - At least one home has been burned in a wildfire raging near Penticton, B.C., that has forced hundreds from their homes and put thousands more on alert to be ready to leave quickly.
Scientists believe more than one southern resident killer whale pregnant
July 29, 2020 - 11:12 AM

VANCOUVER - More than one endangered southern resident killer whale is believed to be pregnant and a University of British Columbia scientist says he is delighted at the news.
B.C. environmental group asks court to revoke government's wolf cull permits
July 22, 2020 - 5:25 PM

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia environmental group has launched a legal petition alleging the provincial government's wolf cull to save caribou is breaking federal and provincial laws.
Scientists using aerial drones to compare northern and southern whale behaviour
November 04, 2019 - 4:06 PM

VANCOUVER - A University of British Columbia scientist says he was delightedly caught off guard when he spotted a southern resident killer whale calf appearing to use a fish as her teething ring and swimming with her mother this summer.
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When to pick those pumpkins as nights get colder in Kamloops, Okanagan
Pumpkins are reaching maturity and turning orange in many backyards in Kamloops and the Okanagan as Halloween approaches but with reports of frosty nights coming, some residents are wondering if they should pull their pumpkins off the vine early.

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