A new wildfire sparked on Tuesday night, south of Boston Bar, forcing the closure of Highway 1 and prompting a plea from officials for those in the area to leave immediately.
The Amber Alert for a missing four-year-old boy in the West Kelowna area has been cancelled RCMP confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.
The program serves as the province’s framework to create more inclusive school enrollments for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Traffic along West Broadway from Cambie to Alberta Streets will be impacted but businesses will remain open.
The city of about 8,000 people in the East Kootenay region is located east of the Matthew Creek wildfire, which was sparked on Saturday by lightning.
The Brunswick Creek and Ainslie Creek wildfires are both thousands of hectares in size and have previously triggered other evacuation orders in the area.
The Signal Hill fire was reported late on Wednesday afternoon, about five kilometres south of Highway 99, and is currently estimated to be 10 hectares in size.
In a statement, Canfor said the pulp and paper industry continues to face significant challenges, as more production capacity worldwide has put downward pressure on prices.
Experts say that the price is jumping anywhere between five and 10 cents a litre, and that’s mostly the result of rising oil prices amid the ongoing war between Iran and the U.S.