To help keep communities safe and protect British Columbia’s health-care system from COVID-19, the Province has authorized site-specific road checks on travel corridors between regions to help enforce the non-essential travel restrictions that were announced on April 23, 2021. On the advice of B.C.’s provincial health officer...

Amendments to the Employment Standards Act providing workers with up to three hours of paid leave to get each dose of their COVID-19 vaccine are now in effect, retroactive to April 19, 2021. Bill 3 is now law and ensures that no employee will lose pay if they need time away from work to get vaccinated. Both full-time and...

New accessibility legislation will set British Columbia on the path to a more accessible and inclusive province for people with disabilities and their support networks. If passed, the accessible British Columbia act will allow government to establish accessibility standards aimed at identifying, removing and preventing barriers...

The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) lifted evacuation orders for three homes in the Fife Road area on the east side of Christina Lake this afternoon. Residents have been out of their homes since the early morning hours of April 25 when debris blocking a creek at higher elevation...

RCMP and the BC Coroners Service are investigating the circumstances surrounding a collision between two commercial transport vehicles that claimed the life of a man Monday evening. On April 26, just before 6 p.m., Logan Lake RCMP responded to a collision involving two semi-tractor trailer units on Highway 5 in the area of ...

At the March Regional District of Kootenay Boundary meeting, the board approved going ahead with an Alternate Approval Process (AAP) to ask Area C/Christina Lake electors whether they are opposed to the RDKB borrowing $1,285,000 to buy a new tender/pumper engine, a primary fire rescue engine, a command vehicle, a heater and...

The Christina Lake Fire/Rescue is getting an early start to the wildfire season after firefighters responded to two recent calls — the latest on Haagland road Friday. Christina Lake Fire/Rescue said on its Facebook page firefighters work more than five hours to get the wildfire under control. Christina Lake Fire/Rescue was ...

The Province is providing an additional $2 billion in development financing through B.C.’s HousingHub to finance the construction of thousands of new homes for middle-income families. “For too long, hard-working middle-income families have been priced out of the housing market, and the pandemic pushed prices even higher,”...

A two-vehicle head-on collision on Highway 1 seven kilometers east of Sicamous has claimed two lives, according to BC Highway Patrol Sgt. Chad Badry. "On April 6, 2021, just after 1 p.m., BC RCMP frontline members from Sicamous Detachment and RCMP Traffic Services responded to a report of a serious two vehicle head-on collision...

The BC Wildfire Service will be supporting the Selkirk Resource District in conducting a 36-hectare ecosystem restoration burn in the Gibbs Creek area of the Southeast Fire Centre, about 6.5 kilometres west of Grand Forks. Smoke will be visible from Grand Forks, surrounding communities, and to motorists travelling along Highway...