Tag: outdoor recreation

B.C Conservation officers are investigating a suspected fatal grizzly bear attack near Bella Coola after two people were reported missing, and human remains were found near the Snooka West Trail area. Search efforts continue for the second person.

The Williams Lake Fire Department responded to three dumpster fire calls on Nov.2, all within one hour, nearly doubling the amount of dumpster fires they have responded to all year.

A provincial grant is opening the doors for its largest funding intake yet, which could create opportunities for outdoor recreation projects to in the Cariboo-Chilcotin.

Several First Nations are asking a Federal Court to review Ottawa’s decision to list the proposed new oil pipeline to B.C.’s coast as a “project of national interest.”

Morris noted having a premier from the interior is not unprecedented: W.A.C. Bennett and his son Bill, who were by turns premier for most of the years between 1952 and 1986, were from Kelowna. (Going much further back, Dr. John Duncan McLean, who was premier in 1927-28, was from Greenwood. He had previously been a schoolteacher in Rossland.)