Category Archives: British Columbia

KELOWNA, B.C. - The chief of a small rural fire department in B.C.'s Okanagan region says 13 members of his own crew have lost their homes while fighting wildfires this season. Wilson's Landing Fire C...

Two weekends ago, Anne Zarifa and her children sat down to make a list of clothes they'd need for the coming school year after sifting through their closets to get rid of anything too small or worn ou...

The last travel restriction for the Okanagan region in British Columbia has been lifted alongside all previous evacuation orders within Kelowna's city limits, as wildfires there diminish after this we...

VANCOUVER - The mother of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a British Columbia park six years ago has told a murder trial how she gave her a last hug, hours before the girl's death. The Chinese mother ...

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is warning about the risks of fires going unnoticed on locomotives and setting wildfires, citing dozens of on-board blazes in a report into an incident two ye...

TORONTO - Hudson's Bay is reviving its outlet model with a discount store in Toronto's east end. The department store chain says it is converting an existing Hudson's Bay store at Eglinton Square in S...

Buck Meek, "Haunted Mountain" (4AD) Buck Meek, the stellar guitarist of Big Thief, is out with his third studio album, "Haunted Mountain." It is a lovely fusion of twang and rock with prime songwritin...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... N.W.T. officials want evacuees to stay out for now Northwest Territories offici...

North Shuswap resident Kyle Boppre offers a simple explanation when asked why he defied an evacuation order issued as a wildfire bore down on his neighbourhood. "It's just, I guess, in my blood to fig...

Firefighters in British Columbia's southern Interior continue to battle a number of major blazes, having been aided by ample rainfall that fell Wednesday over the Okanagan and Shuswap regions. BC Wild...