December 2025

The Lower and Upper Similkameen Indian Bands have issued a statement blasting Premier David Eby and the provincial government’s economic plan for speeding through a mining proposal in their traditional territory. The First Nations accused Eby’s Look West plan of failing to live up to what is written inside in, in particular around the importance

All School district 27 and School District 28 bus routes have been cancelled for Thursday, Dec. 4 due to road conditions. A travel advisory was in effect for Highway 97 south of 150 Mile House to Clinton, and from the beginning of Highway 24 to Eagle Island Road. The advisory was due to freezing rain

The BC SPCA is recommending animal cruelty charges to Crown Counsel after finding a “heartbreaking sight.” On Nov. 18, an animal protection officer responded to concerns of animal cruelty near a remote property east of Prince Rupert and found a heavily-matted dog lying in the snow. After discussing the dog’s condition, the owner surrendered the

The holiday season has a way of bringing out the best in us. We gather with loved ones, enjoy warm meals, share laughter, and find comfort in familiar traditions. But for so many abandoned and homeless animals, this time of year looks very different. Shelters fill past capacity. Cold weather sets in. And frightened dogs

A UBC Okanagan (UBCO) doctoral student has utilized an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to study fire behaviour. Laden Tazik, the lead author of a new study in Fire, used the “Segment Anything Model”, a state of the art AI tool to capture fire behaviour and extract fire perimeters from experimental burn videos frame-by-frame to study