PHOTOS: One person injured in Vernon shed fire
5 days ago · One person was treated for injuries suffered as the result of a shed fire in a vacant Vernon lot. Vernon Fire Rescue Services received a call of a shed on fire on 25th Avenue, at the future home of a storage business, shortly after 9:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 29. Firefighters could be seen extinguishing ...
BREAKING: Crews fighting fire on Penticton Indian Band land
3 days ago · A fire has sparked off Green Mountain Road on Penticton Indian Band land Saturday afternoon. The fire broke out shortly before 4 p.m. Nov. 30. Penticton Indian Band Fire Department and Penticton Fire Services are on scene, along with RCMP. A Black Press Media reporter on scene reported flames ...
Father and son happy to be safe after capsized boat rescue at ...
6 days ago · A father and son are grateful to be safe, warm and on land after being rescued from the Crescent Beach waters. "You feel a little ashamed when you do something like this but everyone, all the responders, were just so positive, they were all outstanding," said Greg Monroe, the man rescued from the ...
Maple Ridge hospital taxied blind senior to Downtown Eastside ...
4 days ago · After her family advocated for her, an 86-year-old blind woman is getting better treatment from Fraser Health than the health authority's original plan – a taxi dropping her off at a shelter on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, a cab collected Gwendolyn Deraspe from Ridge Meadows ...
Chilcotin River landslide risks ongoing, checkpoints to be ...
4 days ago · Information checkpoints set up in Farwell Canyon since the Chilcotin River landslide on July 31, 2024 will soon be disbanded, said the Cariboo Regional District Emergency Operations Centre. In an update Nov. 29, the Cariboo Regional District Emergency Operations Centre said community information ...
Sophie Pierre named Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School
5 days ago · Sophie Pierre — a past Chief of the aq'am Community, Order of Canada recipient, and Commissioner for the British Columbia Treaty Commission — has been named the inaugural Senior Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School's Project on Indigenous Governance and Development for spring 2025.
Victims of gender-based violence remembered in Revelstoke
5 days ago · An act of gender-based violence, or misogynist terrorism that sparked the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women is being recognized by the Revelstoke Women's Shelter to remember those 14 victims and the countless others since. Together with the library, they are bringing ...
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