Beyond Local

Most of the orders cover huge areas of the central Interior, but residents of 41 properties in the Okanagan, west of Peachland, were ordered out before dawn as the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen said a new fire threatens safety.

“After everything nurses have been through in this pandemic on the front lines, to have (it) escalate to minus three, honestly, I don't think anybody was really expecting that. It just feels so disrespectful, so disheartening,” said Orissa Shima, the nurses’ union representative for the Sturgeon Community Hospital.

Shell Canada Ltd. has announced plans to build a large-scale carbon capture and storage project at its Scotford Complex near Edmonton, part of its strategy to become a net-zero emissions company by 2050.

The president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is stepping away from the Alberta-based organization after admitting to hiring a private investigator to follow a Manitoba judge. 

“CP thought that one of them had been killed and they weren’t sure about the disposition of the other two,” said Mark Benson, acting human-wildlife management specialist for Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay field unit.

An Airdrie bartender’s signature creation is once again in the running to be named Canada’s top Caesar.

A newsletter circulating online from the Penelakut Tribe on Vancouver Island says more than 160 unmarked and undocumented graves have been found at the former Kuper Island Industrial School site near Chemainus, B.C.

Alberta says it will begin easing some remaining COVID-19 health restrictions in continuing-care centres.

Investigators in British Columbia have zeroed in on two areas of interest for the cause of a fire that razed the village of Lytton.

Alberta's Opposition health critic is sounding the alarm on hospital bed closures during the summer which the provincial health delivery agency says is due to staffing shortages.