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UBCM votes 55 per cent for moratorium on wireless meter rollout

British Columbia is sending 16 firefighting personnel to central Alberta, to assist that province with an increase in fire activity.

Late September in the Chilcotin, luxuriant pine grass grows amid a dead forest of fire-killed lodgepole pine snags, southwest of Bull Canyon. The pine grass is a product of our wet spring and summer; the trees were burned in the Lava Canyon Fire of 2009.

Effective at noon on today, all open fires will be permitted across the Cariboo Fire Centre, due to a decreased risk of wildfires.

The RCMP has asked the Abbotsford Police Department to conduct an independent investigation into an incident on Sept.10 involving a 17-year-old female and RCMP members from Williams Lake.

The regional coroner is investigating the death of a young man who collapsed while being processed at the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre Sept. 21.

The Cariboo Regional District is bringing seven resolutions to the Union of B.C. Municipalities meeting this week.

NDP leader Adrian Dix used his first speech to the Union of B.C. Municipalities Thursday to attack a series of B.C. Liberal moves, from imposing a municipal auditor to restricting local government control of transit funding.

The release of a former violent sexual offender on conditions into the community of Horsefly is raising concerns.

Controversial MSP premium surcharge on table: de Jong