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Water rise from Chilcotin River landslide may not be as high as feared: B.C. officials
A remote landslide in B.C.’s Central Interior that's blocking a river is still being closely monitored. On Saturday afternoon, the province issued an update, saying the Chilcotin River landslide ...
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Survey in British Columbia Reveals Dozens of First Nations Sites
In 2024, a landslide along the Chilcotin River in British Columbia caused extensive damage to the ancestral home of the ...
Snowpack rises to 79% of normal in B.C.; some flooding possible
The Okanagan, Boundary and West Kootenay have a slightly elevated risk for freshet flooding in what’s shaping up to be an ...
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Study finds pit houses in B.C.'s Chilcotin ‘older than the pyramids’
The study was launched immediately after the landslide broke on the last day of July 2024. Sites of interest, from Hanceville to the mouth of the Chilcotin River (Pesxenmétkwe) were identified using ...
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First Nation report says communication shortfalls hampered B.C. landslide response
A clogged area of the Chilcotin River is shown in an Aug. 2, 2024, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Government of British Columbia **MANDATORY CREDIT** A report from a First Nation says the ...
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Into the Wild Heart of British Columbia's Cariboo
Its tracks trace a single line across the surface of a frozen river ... Chilcotin, explore the Great Bear Rainforest or relax along the Land of Hidden Waters. While this region offers some of BC ...
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B.C. snowpack at 73% of normal, renewing drought, wildfire, electricity concerns
The BC River Forecast Centre’s latest Snow Survey ... 30 per cent higher on the South Coast than in 2024. By region, the Chilcotin had the weakest snowpack, sitting at just 16 per cent of ...
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Study finds pit houses in B.C.‘s Chilcotin ‘older than the pyramids’
Archaeological evidence collected in the first phase of a cultural heritage study suggests the historical presence of the Secwépemc in the Chilcotin was larger than once thought. Conducted by ...
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First Nation report says communication shortfalls hampered B.C. landslide response
A report from a First Nation says the massive Chilcotin River landslide in the B.C. Interior last year revealed shortfalls in communication and co-ordination of the emergency response from ...