For the first time ever guests can bring their four-legged family members to the Ridge Meadows Home Show’s free outdoor Family Fest where a new event aims to inspire, engage, and educate dog owners about fantastic local products and services. The Paw Patch will be located in a tented area on the Family Fest grounds, […]
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B.C. United has been fined $4,500 for false statements after it was revealed the party was behind a website calling for John Rustad to be fired and a mailout that included unverified allegations against an MLA. Elections BC announced the fine against the B.C. United Party on Wednesday (April 8) for transmitting a false statement
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Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language that may be offensive to some readers. In 2013, Insp. Conor King of the Victoria Police Department heard about the effects of illicit fentanyl for the first time. “A couple of [officers] came back one day and they said that they had been talking to a street nurse,
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B.C. is creating a new permitting hub for adventure tourism operators to help them navigate the network of authorizations they need to run their businesses. The plan would initially include heli-ski, cat-ski (tracked-vehicle-based backcountry skiing), heli-assisted guiding, and snowmobile tour operators, but later be expanded to other adventure tourism companies. Due to the size of
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A wildfire that was previously considered held on Thursday morning is again burning out-of-control, east of Merritt. The blaze sparked on April 8 and quickly grew to 150 hectares, despite being deemed held, the fire appeared to have flared up again and is now an estimated 550 hectares. Located off Highway 5A in the Quilchena
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