A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed in flames Wednesday night and residents were forced to flee, many without their belongings. Mayor Jan Polderman says he told everyone to leave Lytton, as a fire rapidly spread into the community of about 250 people. He […]

Black Sage Butcher has applied for a zoning amendment to allow the business to legally operate downtown at 6234 Main Street. The proposed location is an empty commercial space with a residential unit above. Director of Development Services Randy Houle states the amendment will allow a distillery, winery or other related business to open in […]

Following is a synopsis of items discussed at the Board of Education meeting held on June 22, 2021. Staff and the Board offered our condolences to the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation on whose land the mass grave of 215 children was found at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. We also […]

There has been another discovery of human remains in unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in B.C. The Lower Kootenay Band confirmed Wednesday that ground-penetrating radar revealed 182 human remains in unmarked graves at the site of the old St. Eugene’s Mission Residential School in Cranbrook, B.C. The band said some […]

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