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'Extraordinary' fire situation with over 170 new fires started in B.C.: official
July 08, 2017 - 2:47 PM

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Fire crews worked to save buildings and protect transportation routes Saturday after thousands of people were chased from their homes by wildfires that raged out of control across British Columbia's central Interior.
Lightning storms across B.C. raise tension as wildfire danger climbs
August 01, 2018 - 11:56 PM

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Lightning storms that swept across British Columbia are being blamed by the Wildfire Service for many of the blazes that started this week across the province including one that threatened Kootenay Park Lodge on Wednesday.
Bodies of three hikers recovered after slipping into pools of B.C. waterfall
July 04, 2018 - 7:00 PM

SQUAMISH, B.C. - Police say the bodies of three hikers who slipped and fell into one of the pools of a waterfall north of Vancouver were recovered from the area Wednesday evening.
Parks Canada scales back recovery operation for missing Calgary boy
July 25, 2016 - 1:28 PM

FIELD, B.C. - Parks Canada says it has scaled back the recovery operation for an 11-year-old Calgary boy who fell into the Yoho River in southeastern B.C.
Clean-up begins in wake of severe B.C. windstorm, thousands still without power
August 31, 2015 - 1:49 AM

VANCOUVER - Had Vancouver resident Sherrell Hutchingson been standing a foot to the side while opening her car door during Saturday's vicious windstorm it's unlikely she'd be able to tell her close-call story of a large tree narrowly missing her as it crushed her vehicle.
Wildfires in B.C. wine country force residents from vineyards, orchards
August 16, 2015 - 1:00 AM

OLIVER, B.C. - Fast-moving wildfires in the heart of British Columbia's wine country are threatening prized vineyards and orchards, with scores of residents forced out of their homes.
Owner of two hockey teams should be fined $300,000 for breaking laws:B.C. lawyer
October 10, 2014 - 2:58 PM

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Damage to a fish habitat should cost the millionaire owner of two hockey teams and his company $300,000, a Crown lawyer has told a sentencing hearing.
Vancouver-area woman reunites Japanese fisherman with item lost in 2011 tsunami
August 03, 2014 - 1:00 AM

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-area woman will board a plane on Monday to return a piece of Japanese tsunami debris that washed ashore after the deadly 2011 earthquake, ending a cleanup in British Columbia while reconnecting a fisherman half a world away with his father's past.
Deadly B.C. flooding continues to prompt evacuations, highway closures
June 25, 2012 - 8:31 PM

SICAMOUS, B.C. - Residents and emergency officials in British Columbia's flood-ravaged Interior are cleaning up and bagging sand after weekend storms forced hundreds from their homes, left one man dead, and damaged homes and property.
Anniversary of Stanley Cup riot passes relatively quietly in downtown Vancouver
June 15, 2012 - 7:47 PM

VANCOUVER - As the Vancouver Canucks were busy losing Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final last June, Lorna Wilson was at home in the nearby suburb of Delta nursing a terrible cold.
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BC News

'Extraordinary' fire situation with over 170 new fires started in B.C.: official

Lightning storms across B.C. raise tension as wildfire danger climbs

Bodies of three hikers recovered after slipping into pools of B.C. waterfall

Parks Canada scales back recovery operation for missing Calgary boy

Clean-up begins in wake of severe B.C. windstorm, thousands still without power

Wildfires in B.C. wine country force residents from vineyards, orchards

Owner of two hockey teams should be fined $300,000 for breaking laws:B.C. lawyer

Vancouver-area woman reunites Japanese fisherman with item lost in 2011 tsunami

Deadly B.C. flooding continues to prompt evacuations, highway closures

Anniversary of Stanley Cup riot passes relatively quietly in downtown Vancouver

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