December 2025

Strong winds are expected overnight Tuesday, Dec. 16 and into Wednesday morning for a large part of Interior B.C. Environment Canada issued a special weather statement due to a “vigorous cold front” which will bring strong southwesterly winds throughout the Interior including to the Okanagan Valley, Similkameen, Nicola, South Thompson, the Fraser Canyon, the Cariboo

Rain is expected to continue for the Fraser Valley on Tuesday (Dec. 16) with between 50 and 70 mm in the forecast. Environment Canada issued a “yellow” rainfall warning for parts of the Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver early this morning, including Abbotsford, Chilliwack, North Vancouver, Coquitlam and Maple Ridge. The new colour-coded weather alerts

In the air there’s a definite feeling of Christmas, and with just one week to go before Dec. 25 there will be lots of packages arriving, plenty of shopping trips, visits to crowded malls, and perhaps plans to head somewhere else for the holidays. Unfortunately, this time of year also sees a rise in mail

Filmmaker and conservationist Joshua Wright was hiking in the Black Creek valley south of Gold River last summer when he came across one of the biggest yellow cedar trees he had ever seen. “It felt like I had died and gone to heaven,” said Wright of trekking through one of the last intact old-growth forests

A recent provincial court hearing landed a motorist a $4,500 fine and a two-year park access prohibition for entering a closed section of the Trans-Canada Highway in Rogers Pass — not once, but twice — during avalanche control. In a statement to Black Press Media, Parks Canada shared that, last winter, a traveller drove through