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Area restrictions for South Peace Complex updated

BC Wildfire has updated the area restrictions for the South Peace Complex, and they're smaller. The previous restrictions included the area south of Bearhole...

West Kiskatinaw Fire no longer considered immediate risk to town

As of Tuesday, June 20 (the day the paper went to press), the West Kiskatinaw fire remained sitting on the far side of Bearhole...

Area restrictions in effect

Now that the evacuation orders are no longer in effect, it doesn’t mean that you can just march (or more likely drive) right up...

Evacuation Stories

Over on Facebook, I asked for your stories from the evacuation. Here’s what you said. While still evacuated, Christie Burlingame wrote of her experience being...

Helm gets lifetime achievement award 

The Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc)—an organization dedicated to improving health care in rural BC—recently awarded Dr. Charles Helm a lifetime achievement award. Helm...

Onwards and upwards! TRSS grad gets rescheduled

There’s a new date for the 2023 Tumbler Ridge graduation. Or rather, new dates. Grad was originally scheduled for Friday, June 16, but with no word...

Final Thought: on being evacuated. Again

There was a moment—just a moment—standing in the parking lot of the Ovintiv Centre in Dawson Creek, looking back towards Tumbler Ridge, that it...

Final Shot.

Only a few hours after the fire was discovered, it was casting thick smoke into the sky over Boot Lake. While the fire blew...

West Kiskatinaw update: June 22

After 20 mm of rain over the weekend, the West Kiskatinaw Fire has not been very active this week. However, winds and warmer weather...

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