Radium Hot Springs

• Highly visible wildfire breaks out near Invermere and Radium Hot Springs, B.C.

  The fire was discovered just after 2 p.m. Monday and has grown to 70 hectares in size. The BC Wildfire Service believes it was started by lightning. 

  Fire

  Jul 24, 2023
  
• B.C.’s Kicking Horse Canyon to reopen for Thanksgiving weekend

  For Thanksgiving weekend, from noon on Friday, Oct. 7 to noon on Tuesday, Oct. 11, the otherwise closed portion of the Trans-Canada Highway east of Golden will open to travellers.

  Traffic

  Oct 5, 2022
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2022: Radium Hot Springs results

  Global News is projecting that Mike Gray has been elected as the community’s mayor, with nearly 60 per cent of the vote in the two-person race.

  Politics

  Sep 18, 2022
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• Boulder blocks highway near Radium Hot Springs

  A boulder rolled onto the middle of the highway, about seven kilometres north of Radium Hot Springs, according to Kootenay National Park's social media.

  Traffic

  May 11, 2022
• Residents of Radium Hot Springs rally to save bighorn sheep from death on the highway

  Residents living in the village of Radium Hot Springs in B.C. are pushing for change to help save a herd of bighorn sheep.

  Canada

  Feb 7, 2022
• Good Samaritan seriously injured, airlifted, after trying to help trapped driver: B.C. RCMP

  Police say a 46-year-old man scrambled down an embankment to help free the driver, but was injured when the Chevy Tahoe shifted and rolled onto him.

  Canada

  May 8, 2021
• Beloved B.C. woodcarver Rolf Heer dies from cancer at age 66

  Rolf Heer, 66, had lived in the village of Radium Hot Springs for more than 40 years.

  Jul 22, 2020
• Police seek masked suspect of alleged bank robbery in Radium Hot Springs

  Investigators determined the suspect approached a teller at the counter and demanded cash, later fleeing on foot with an "undisclosed amount of currency."

  Crime

  Aug 3, 2019
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• Radium Hot Springs woodcarver puts ‘Home of a Thousand Faces’ up for sale

  Faced with health problems, Radium's iconic woodcarver, Rolf Heer, is putting his home and his carvings up for sale.

  Canada

  Oct 26, 2018
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• 102 fires burning in B.C.’s southeast region

  More than 100 fires are burning in B.C.'s Southeast Fire Region, with half of them caused from a lightning storm earlier in the week.

  Aug 2, 2018