Probe launched after protected 2,000-year-old B.C. yellow cedar toppled

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 […]

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Driver fined $4,500, banned after twice ignoring Rogers Pass closure

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

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‘His face was distorted’: Police describe 2021 Kelowna murder scene to court

WARNING: This story includes details from a murder trial and may be triggering for some readers. Graphic testimony about a badly disfigured body dominated a Kelowna courtroom Monday as the second-degree murder trial of Gabriella Sears entered its second week, with a senior crime scene officer describing what he found inside a Sycamore Road home

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