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Deaf and hard-of-hearing customers will soon have better access to services as ICBC expands live, on-demand sign language interpretation at every driver licensing office in B.C. The service helps deaf and hard-of-hearing customers communicate with ICBC staff in real time, without needing to book an in-person American Sign Language interpreter in advance, ICBC announced Friday […]

The Village of Chase is tightening procedures after losing over $44,000 to fraud. In a media release, the village announced an incident had occurred recently, resulting in a financial loss, though they were able to mitigate the damage. “During a routine payment to a supplier for completed work, the payment was fraudulently redirected to unauthorized

Temperatures across the Okanagan are expected to climb near 30 C over the next week after an April that saw the region’s largest communities post among their warmest and driest spring months ever. “We’re coming into the spring with a bit of a moisture deficit, and it does look like it’s going to continue to

Ultramarathons push the human body to its limits, but new research from the University of Victoria suggests those limits may be shaped long before race day. A study published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, led by UVic biological anthropologist Alison Murray, found an athlete’s birth weight may influence how their kidneys respond to the

A business on Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge was surrounded by police tape Friday morning after a fire was set at the front of the store. The incident happened overnight from Thursday, April 30, to Friday, May 1, at Mr FIX, in the 22500 block of Lougheed Highway. In a video posted online a car