Peace Arch News

Be prepared to be self-sufficient for several days, be alert for fire, and give yourself space to absorb the changes you’ll see to the landscape.

That was the advice that more than 400 people heard during an online information session on Friday afternoon for residents of Clinton, the surrounding electoral area, and local First Nations who are preparing to return.

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BC Wildfire Service personnel were responding by land and air to a one-hectare blaze near Clearwater on Friday afternoon.

The Noblequartz Creek fire was discovered later in the day on Aug. 14, burning southeast of Clearwater, near agricutural properties along the north side of Highway 5.

As of 6 p.m. (Aug. 14), a crew of seven BCWS firefighters were responding...

In an 105-page decision read in Kelowna Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 14, Ekene Anigbo had his first-degree murder charge downgraded to being found guilty two counts of manslaughter.

Anigbo was accused of killing 57-year-old Naramata resident Kathleen Richardson inside her home in the early morning of June 9, 2021, part of a series of murders and acts of violence in th...

Jagrag Lalli’s lifelong dream of working on Hockey Night in Canada’s Punjabi broadcast came to a sudden, emotional end on Thursday, Aug. 13.

In a conference call, Lalli and more than a dozen other contracted broadcasters and staff were told the Rogers Sportsnet-produced show was cancelled after 18 years of airing NHL games in the Punjabi language.

“It was very e...

This year’s wildfires are ripping through some of B.C.’s best cattle country, and it is often neighbours stepping in to help save each other’s homes and cattle as the BC Wildfire Service works to protect more populated areas.

In the Churn Creek area northwest of Clinton, a pair of historic ranches banded together to save one of their homesteads, fighting off the encroa...