BC Wildfire Service discovered the blaze Sunday, July 6. It is located between Highway 6 and Whatshan Lake. The fire is an ...

According to current forecasts, residents and visitors in the Arrow Lakes region can expect low water levels for another year, said BC Hydro representatives during an online update on June ...

Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation hopes to begin connecting to the fibre-optic backbone in the Slocan Valley, bringing the area one step closer to high-speed internet access. CBBC would like to ...

Hot and dry weather is expected to stay in effect for the next 10 days as the B.C. Wildfire Service struggles to gain control of several fires of note, including one that forced the evacuation of the ...

British Columbia Around 870 properties on evacuation order in B.C.'s Slocan Valley Residents and visitors are asked to leave the village by 8 a.m. PT Sunday ...

The evacuation order impacts the village of Slocan, B.C., as well as more than 400 properties in the areas surrounding the community, which is about 370 km east of Kelowna.

Within the Slocan Valley area, 42 wildfires are burning, with another dozen located on either side of the region.

Citing an age-old sentiment that has been the mantra of valley residents since American Vietnam War resisters headed north in the mid-1960s and settled in the Slocan Valley, one resident asked what ...