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Castlegar has worst air quality in Canada today

Visibility in Castlegar is limited as smoke blankets the city. Photo: Betsy Kline

Only a few places in the world with worse air quality on Thursday

by Betsy Kline
updated 8h ago

The Latest

Visitors to the Calgary Stampede line up for tickets in Calgary on Sunday, July 18, 2021. Alberta Health says 71 people likely acquired COVID-19 while attending the Stampede. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta to end isolation rules for COVID-19 cases, close contacts as cases rise
- updated 12h ago
Elk Valley stakeholders successfully campaign to keep Racehorse Pass trail open
- 10h ago
Dumpster art brightens Fernie
- 11h ago
Fernie’s Maiden Lake returns E. coli result for second month
- 13h ago
BREAKING: Mask mandate returns to Central Okanagan, COVID-19 outbreak declared

The Nk’Mip Creek Wildfire is over 6,500 hectares and growing. (BC Wildfire Service Twitter)

More burned in 2021 wildfires so far than all of last year

by John Arendt

updated 7h ago

Dr. Penny Ballem, leader of B.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine program, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix promote new website offering walk-in clinics around the province, at the cabinet offices in Vancouver, July 26, 2021. (B.C. government)

B.C.’s COVID-19 cases up 204 Thursday, half in Interior region

by Tom Fletcher

updated 7h ago

Tennessee Titans’ Julio Jones accused of harvesting, selling millions of dollars in cannabis

Cannabis 19+

True Tranquility: Exploring legendary Haida Gwaii

West Coast Traveller

In this April 8, 2010 file photo a cross sits on top of a church in Berlin, Germany. A Winnipeg archdiocese says a priest who suggested residential school survivors were lying to get money is no longer allowed to preach or teach publicly. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Markus Schreiber

Manitoba catholic priest accuses residential school survivors of lying

by The Canadian Press

8h ago

A blood donor clinic pictured at a shopping mall in Calgary on Friday, March 27, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Demand increasing: Canadian Blood Services watching supply as COVID-19 rules eased

by The Canadian Press

8h ago

Seven-year-old Tonnerre is recovering from burns sustained in a South Okanagan wildfire. (BC SPCA image)

Dog survives burns from South Okanagan wildfire

by Zachary Roman

9h ago

Scarlett Johansson stars in “Black Widow.” Marvel Studios

Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over ‘Black Widow’ release

by The Canadian Press

updated 8h ago

VIDEO: Mary Simon becomes Canada’s 1st Indigenous governor general

Bill Merilees, a retired B.C. Parks regional information officer, collected mollusk shells from B.C. and Washington state coastlines for 50 years and has donated his 140,000-specimen collection to University of British Columbia’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

VIDEO: B.C. man donates 140,000 mollusk specimens to biodiversity museum

Golfer captures two bears playing in the middle of the fairway at Kimberley’s Trickle Creek Golf Resort.

WATCH: Golfers and bears alike enjoying the links at Kimberley’s Trickle Creek

Helicopters fly past the Tremont Creek wildfire as it burns on the mountains above Ashcroft, B.C., on Friday, July 16, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. says expanding emergency alert for wildfires is a priority, but no timeline set

Singh meets with Indigenous leaders at residential school where unmarked graves found

NDP leader choked up as he described walking near the Kamloops burial site

by The Canadian Press

8h ago

Helicopter takes off from the B.C. Wildfire Service Southeast Fire Centre in Castlegar, July 21, 2021. (B.C. government photo)

Long-awaited rain, clearing smoke ahead for southern B.C. wildfires

Heat to give way to cooler, unsettled weather over long weekend

by Tom Fletcher

updated 8h ago

Many Stawamus Chief climbing routes closed after tons of rock tumbles in Squamish
- 8h ago
Homicide investigators in New Westminster after 1-year-old dies
- updated 7h ago
Campfire ban lifted in Prince George area as wildfire risk remains high elsewhere in B.C.
- updated 10h ago
Quebec police mistake body of missing woman for mannequin, throw remains in garbage
- updated 8h ago
Kelowna man fired from UPS, accused of punching woman and sending offensive text
- 11h ago

Mexico boxers accuse country’s softball players of throwing away Olympic apparel

All but one member of Mexico’s 15-woman Olympic roster was born in the United States

by The Canadian Press

6h ago

Vancouver Whitecaps FC play the Montreal Impact in an empty B.C. Place due to COVID-19 protocols during the second half of MLS soccer action in Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday, September, 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Canadian MLS teams given green light to finish out season using home stadiums

Canada has approved a “National Interest Exemption” for MLS teams crossing the border

by The Canadian Press

8h ago

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