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Drivers are being urged to stay off the roads in many areas of the province due to whiteouts and icy road conditions. The Department of Pubic Works pu...

Drivers are being urged to stay off the roads in many areas of the province due to whiteouts and icy road cond...

B.C. needs to upgrade hundreds of kilometres of dikes to prepare for climate change

Police say officers responded at 12:30 a.m. on July 4, but resident Anne Herbert recalled the gunfire going off around 11:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 3. “Even when I was on the 911 call, I could hear gunfire,” Herbert said. “I heard the glass shatter.” Not only did a bullet shatter the window just feet from where she was standing, Herbert says her car was hit multiple times. “I ducked. I went to the bedroom to grab my phone and went downstairs to call 911,” she stated. Just feet awa...

Samekoms undeterred by Western Cape government’s ’threat of violence’ over Tokai gathering By IOL Reporter Share Cape Town – The Western Cape Department of Public Works has warned the Samekoms Movement against gathering at Porter Estate next to Tokai Forest on Saturday to launch its land restoration programme. Samekoms administrator Gatto Wanza’s response to IOL on Tuesday was: ’’In the culture of the indigenous people, problem-solving is done through dialogu...

Bellingham library workers are back, and heres when you can resume borrowing materials The Bellingham Herald 2/1/2021 Robert Mittendorf, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.) Feb. 1—Bellingham Public Library staff has returned to the downtown location after it closed last week during a homeless encampment on the buildings lawn, but it will be next week before curbside pickup of materials will resume. "Well have staff back in the building (Monday, Feb. 1), working through...