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Unseasonably hot weather in early May has pushed British Columbians’ electricity demands to about 7,600 megawatts. BC Hydro, in a news release Tuesday (May 5), says that’s the highest level ever seen in May, especially this early in the month. Electricity demand is expected to stay above average until temperatures cool on Wednesday. Peak hourly […]

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

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

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

This year’s PNE Prize Home is located in Surrey because a poll of lottery ticketbuyers suggested their city of choice. “We do listen to what our ticketbuyers tell us in terms of the types of neighbourhoods that they would like to be in, and this was at the top of the list,” Shelley Frost, PNE