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Phones, TVs, radios across B.C. to sound with emergency alert test on May 6

This is just a test. That’ll be the message to British Columbians on Wednesday, May 6 at 1:55 p.m. (Pacific time) as part of a test of the B.C. Emergency Alert system for Emergency Preparedness Week. The test alert will be sent to all compatible cellphones and will also interrupt radio and TV broadcasts. The […]

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19 daily temperature highs broken across B.C., including 128-year-old records

Nineteen daily temperature high records were broken across B.C. on Monday, including three records over 100 years each. Environment Canada says a strong ridge of high pressure continued to bring elevated temperatures across different regions of the province, breaking records for another day. The daily maximum temperature records for Monday (May 4) include: • Bella

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B.C. woman sentenced for ‘unauthorized contact’ with NICU babies at Surrey hospital

A B.C. woman has pleaded guilty to one count of assault and will serve only one extra day in jail for having “unauthorized physical contact wiith infants” in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Surrey Memorial Hospital last fall. Lindsey Hirtreiter pleaded guilty in Surrey provincial court on May 4 in connection with an

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