Kootenays

• Southeast Fire Centre home to one-quarter of all wildfires currently burning in B.C.

  As of Saturday morning, there are 101 wildfires in the Southeast Fire Centre, with 77 of them listed as out of control.

  Canada

  Jul 27, 2024
  
• 3 dead in southeast B.C. single-vehicle crash

  B.C. RCMP say first responders found a vehicle down an embankment along Westside Road in Wilmer Tuesday night. Three of the four occupants were pronounced dead at the scene.

  Canada

  Jul 10, 2024
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch issued for southeast B.C.

  The alert stretches from just east of Osoyoos to the Alberta border and encompasses all of the Kootenays.

  Weather

  May 28, 2024
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• Grizzly bear attack: B.C. man suffers broken bones, airlifted to Calgary hospital

  Elk Valley RCMP say a father and son had been tracking a bear on a steep mountainside near Elkford when the grizzly suddenly appeared.

  Canada

  May 17, 2024
• Driver dies in single-vehicle crash near Kootenay Lake: RCMP

  Police say the incident happened Sunday at 12:30 a.m. on Highway 31, near Queens Bay and Kootenay Lake.

  Traffic

  May 7, 2024
• 6 kg of suspected drugs seized, 2 arrested in Kootenays

  Along with suspected meth, fentanyl, cocaine and psilocybin being seized, police confiscated close to $80,000 in cash and some Mexican currency.

  Crime

  Apr 25, 2024
• 2 killed in head-on highway collision in southeast B.C.

  Creston RCMP say the two-vehicle collision happened on Highway 3 on Thursday, near the unincorporated community of Kitchener.

  Traffic

  Apr 5, 2024
• B.C. to harvest 25 deer, will test for spread of fatal chronic wasting disease

  Chronic wasting disease is an infectious and fatal disease affecting species in the cervid family, such as deer, elk, moose and caribou.

  Canada

  Mar 13, 2024
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• Stolen truck smashes into B.C. police officer, 3 RCMP vehicles

  The vehicle collided with three police vehicles and an officer outside his patrol vehicle, and continued dangerously toward Nelson.

  Crime

  Jan 10, 2024
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• Search warrant in Kootenays leads to 6-hour standoff

  The Southeast District Emergency Response Team was called in, with the standoff lasting nearly six hours before the man surrendered and was taken into custody.

  Crime

  Dec 22, 2023