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'Keen connection': Franklin expedition divers say 2023 season highly productive
January 28, 2024 - 12:00 PM

If it's possible to look through the eyes of the past, Jonathan Moore has done it.
A long-overlooked climate solution, geothermal could be in for its hottest decade yet
December 29, 2023 - 1:00 PM

CALGARY - It's clean, renewable, and right there below our feet, but geothermal energy has largely remained undeveloped in Canada.
Going back to the moon: 'This is Canada on the world stage, doing big things'
April 02, 2023 - 10:30 AM

WASHINGTON - Ask Marc Garneau if he'd go back to space and the first Canadian to ever make the trip doesn't hesitate: "In a wink."
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021
January 01, 2022 - 12:00 PM

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service. But both also saw their legacies tarnished by their actions in the long, bloody war in Iraq.
$An attendee walks past hydraulic fracking equipment at the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary on Tuesday, June 7, 2016.$

Fracking likely to create stronger, more common earthquakes in B.C.: study
May 26, 2021 - 8:00 PM

More damaging earthquakes can be expected more often in northern British Columbia as fracking oil and gas wells increases pressure underground, says newly published research.
Unique geology could mean future rockslides along section of Highway 97 in Okanagan
February 05, 2019 - 3:00 PM

PENTICTON - A $54 million highway widening project north of Summerland seems to have opened a Pandora’s box of potential rockslide issues since its completion in late 2008.
Aftershocks still rumbling following 6.2 quake that jolted Yukon, northwest B.C.
May 02, 2017 - 9:25 AM

WHITEHORSE - The U.S. Geological Survey reports more than 100 aftershocks, including nearly a dozen early this morning, have rumbled across the Alaska Panhandle, southern Yukon and parts of northwestern British Columbia.
Inadequate design blamed for failure of B.C.'s Mount Polley tailings dam: report
January 30, 2015 - 6:05 PM

VICTORIA - The construction of a mine tailings pond on top of a sloped glacial lake at British Columbia's Mount Polley mine weakened the foundation of the dam and was akin to loading a gun and then pulling the trigger, a report on the disaster concluded.
Vancouver Island will rip open like a zipper when overdue earthquake strikes
January 19, 2015 - 5:03 AM

PACHENA BAY, B.C. - The low tide, bright sunshine and constant roar of endlessly approaching waves display the full power of the wide-open Vancouver Island shoreline at the remote beach handed down to Stella Peters and her family as a wedding dowry.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Penticton business set to launch cannabis consumption patio on 4/20
A Penticton cannabis retailer will be opening its consumption patio this weekend and the owner says it'll be the perfect spot for customers to safely enjoy a toke. Cannabis Cottage is hosting a launch party for its all-new designat

Thousands of short-term rentals in B.C. go back to long-term May 1
LANGLEY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby is warning real estate investors and speculators that his government is tilting the rules towards families seeking homes as it tightens the rules on short-term rentals. Eby said Thursday th

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