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BC Hydro reports it restored power to nearly all customers who have been without electricity since the bomb cyclone earlier this week.

The Canadian Coast Guard was out on the water Wednesday, assessing at least eight boats that ran aground onto beaches during the storm.

BC Hydro says crews have restored power to 95 per cent of some 290,000 businesses and homes that were in the dark at some point Monday due to a powerful windstorm.

North Oyster Elementary, Ecole Hammond Bay, Gabriola Elementary and Qwam Qwum Stuwixwhul School remain closed due to power outages from the storm.

At the height of the storm on Tuesday, about 30,000 BC Hydro customers were without power, mostly on the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island.

Resident Lynn Smith was driving on the Sunshine Coast Highway when she saw the strong winds start picking up and quickly pulled a U-turn.

Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida as a Category 4 late Wednesday or Thursday, with Tampa Bay potentially facing its first direct hit since 1921.

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B.C.'s lingering drought could be eased by an incoming weather pattern that may bring a colder and wetter than normal winter, says a UBC weather and climate expert.

Thousands of Metro Vancouver residents lost power due to a windstorm Tuesday night. Some were still without electricity on Wednesday morning.

In December 2018 winds of up to 91 kilometres per hour sent sailboats crashing into the pier, severing it mid-span and forcing a helicopter rescue of one man.

A Naramata resident said one tree near his home wound up crashing down onto his deck five months five months after it was trimmed.

According to the BC Wildfire Service, the Parker Lake blaze is burning alongside Highway 97, around 12 kilometres west of Fort Nelson.

The origin of the barge and how it got loose remains unclear, but a Coast Guard spokesperson said crews from the nearby Kitsilano Base were on scene.

Christenson Bailey has lived in Vancouver's Stanley Park for the last three decades. He first visited the city in 1981 on a hitchhiking trip.

This season marks Thames Valley’s 100th season, having opened in 1924. The course is marking the occasion with a refurbished clubhouse and merchandise with a new logo.

New figures released on Thursday show how Canada's 2023 wildfire season — which burned roughly 18.5 million hectares — impacted the global tree cover landscape.

The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services activated its operations center and positioned personnel and equipment in areas most at risk from the weather.

The Fraser-Cascade School District closed Boston Bar Elementary School due to road conditions and a power outage Tuesday morning.

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses were without power in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on Tuesday after strong winds hit parts of Canada's East Coast.