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British Columbia's emergency management minister is calling for unity in the fight against the province's wildfires, as she decried people defying evacuation orders to try to defend their properties.

North Shuswap residents say they believe people who have disobeyed evacuation orders to fight the Bush Creek East fire have helped save structures

VANCOUVER — The Chinese mother of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby, B.C., park six years ago has taken the witness stand at the murder trial of her accused killer.

Kyle Boppre and others in the small communities that dot the Shuswap region's waterfront felt like they were on their own, with no choice but to take the firefight into their own hands. 

Arc’teryx has shown interest in an exchange student’s design of an avalanche airbag vest.

'If the people of B.C. want to co-exist with fire, there is an urgent need to act now at a pace and scale that will achieve landscape resilience.'

At the Cheakamus Centre, international delegates convened to discuss the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework.

We are lucky to have good disaster planning teams on the North Shore. But we also need to take individual action to play our part.

Evacuees are asked to head to Merritt Civic Centre.