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Modelling used to prepare the health-care system for the fall COVID and flu season projects up to 700 additional patients hospitalized over the coming months.

Mail ballot applications due by Oct. 13

The move comes at the BC Geographical Names Office’s request for comments without allowances for a public consultation process on a shIshálh Nation proposal to change names for 10 geographical features in the shIshálh swiya.

Without additional supply from Edwards Lake or significant rainfall by Oct. 13, Chapman Lake is predicted to reach a 'critically low' point and the dependent water system would be at an 'operational zero' level.  

It's been 80 days since the last significant rainfall and Environment Canada says not to expect significant rainfall for at least the next two weeks. For a second consecutive year, the SCRD has activated an Emergency Operations Centre to respond to the drought conditions in the region.

After a 'lively' reaction to Zoning Bylaw 722, staff brought forward amendments related to home-based businesses and residential agriculture. Having received the approval of SCRD committee of the whole, the bylaw is expected to pass third reading and adoption in October.

UBC researchers pulled cellulose from wood fuels left in B.C.'s forests. They then repurposed it into a biodegradable film that mimics plastic, helping solve two problems at once.

2022 is forecast to be a dominant year for Fraser River sockeye salmon. As the red fish run up British Columbia's rivers and streams, here are dozens of places you can observe them.

Town of Gibsons council has agreed to supply the Sunshine Coast Regional District with up to 1,000 cubic metres of water a day as Stage 4 restrictions continue for the Chapman system.