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CTV News
06-08-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
Rain, cooler weather helping to hold wildfire burning on Vancouver Island
A helicopter refills a bucket of water near Cameron Lake off Highway 4, where the Wesley Ridge wildfire continues to burn near Coombs, B.C., on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito Light rain and higher humidity have helped British Columbia firefighters in their work to contain a wildfire burning out of control on Vancouver Island. The roughly five-square-kilometre wildfire has forced those living in almost 390 homes in the Regional District of Nanaimo to flee. The BC Wildfire Service says crews made good progress in improving the containment of the blaze, guarding it from spreading to nearby homes and the Highway 4 corridor. It says light rain fell on the fire Tuesday, allowing firefighters to 'expand containment, and night-vision helicopters were set to work the fire's perimeter overnight. Officials say fire behaviour has been limited to 'a low-vigour surface fire,' but some spots have seen a higher burning intensity. There are 130 active wildfires burning across B.C., about more than double the number from last week, driven largely by hot and dry weather and thousands of lightning strikes. Some residents have expressed concern that the Wesley Ridge fire could reach a nearby temperate rainforest containing trees that have stood for 800 years, but the wildfire service says it is not under threat. This report by Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press, was first published Aug. 6, 2025.
CTV News
06-06-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
Urgent sink hole repair closes Coquihalla Highway northbound from Hope to Merritt
Vehicles drive along the Coquihalla Highway, Wednesday, January 19, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward A major highway in the British Columbia Interior has been partially closed due to 'urgent sink hole repairs.' The provincial Transportation Ministry's DriveBC information system says the Coquihalla Highway has been closed northbound between Hope and Merritt. DriveBC says the closure is due to what it's calling a 'washout' that requires urgent sink hole repairs, and the earliest traffic may resume is at around noon today. Motorists looking to travel northbound on the Coquihalla are being asked to divert to either Highway 1 or Highway 3. The closure was first reported by DriveBC at around 8:30 p.m. last night at a location between the Portia and Zopkios Brake Check exits, about three kilometres south of the Great Bear Snowshed. DriveBC has not released any information on the potential cause of the sink hole. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 6, 2025. Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press
Toronto Star
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
A family and a festival: How Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded
By Brieanna Charlebois, Chuck Chiang, Darryl Greer and Nono Shen The Canadian Press VANCOUVER - In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the circus' Kooza show. Four days later, his brother responded. 'Brother, we will get to see this together sometime,' wrote Adam Kai-Ji Lo.
