Cranbrook Daily Townsman – Cranbrook News

Kootenay-based fish, wildlife projects to receive over $1M in funding

$45,000 has been awarded for invasive plant management on critical bighorn sheep winter ranges in the Wigwam Flats, Bull River and Columbia Lake East, co-funded by the Forest Enhancement Society of BC. Pictured is a Bighorn sheep in the Bull River area. (Corey Bullock/Cranbrook Townsman file)

Several projects based in the East Kootenay region to benefit

by Corey Bullock
5h ago

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Saanich Fire Department worked hard to pull a horse from drowning in a mud bog on July 31 in Saanich. (Photo and video courtesy of Saanich Fire Department)

What's on at the Cranbrook Public Library

Cranbrook Library hosting sizzling summer book sale, Aug. 3, 4

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Firefighters attack the flames after a collision on Highway 1 in west Kamloops on Aug. 2, 2021, led to a fire and explosions. (Dave Eagles/Kamloops This Week)

VIDEO: Explosions rock Kamloops after semi-truck catches fire on Highway 1

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Appeal Court convicts Calgary man who attacked woman while he was high on mushrooms

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VIDEO: Chilliwack morphing into city of street murals

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Surrey RCMP probe garbage-throwing ‘racism’ confrontation at Aspen Park in Newton

by Tom Zytaruk

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Woman drowns in Christina Lake, say Grand Forks RCMP

by Laurie Tritschler

updated 1h ago

That’s no rubber snake. This one was found on a bus in Kaslo by Mountain Man Mike’s owner Michael Hathaway. Photo Submitted

Hissing hitchhiker: Snake discovered on B.C. company’s bus

by Tyler Harper

updated 4h ago

Roger Gordon with a prototype of a machine which produces GreenNH3, an inexpensive nonpolluting fuel that can be used in internal combustion engines.

Scientists develop green fuel to combat climate change

B.C. Christmas tree growers say intense heat singes prized trees, kills seedlings

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listens as Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Dr. Theresa Tam is seen via videoconference during a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Friday, June 4, 2021. Federal officials are warning that Canada could be on the brink of a fourth wave of COVID-19 driven by the highly contagious Delta variant if the country opens too fast before enough people have been vaccinated. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Federal modelling warns of 4th COVID wave driven by Delta if reopening is too fast

Visitors to the Calgary Stampede line up for tickets in Calgary on Sunday, July 18, 2021. Alberta Health says 71 people likely acquired COVID-19 while attending the Stampede. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta to end isolation rules for COVID-19 cases, close contacts as cases rise

Mary Simon speaks during an announcement at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Simon, an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat, has been named as Canada's next governor general — the first Indigenous person to serve in the role. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

VIDEO: Mary Simon becomes Canada’s 1st Indigenous governor general

Pentagon on lockdown after shooting near Metro station

Multiple gunshots heard near the vicinity

by The Canadian Press

updated 3h ago

UPDATE: No fly-zone being amended in Kelowna, YLW operations to resume

More than two dozen arriving and departing flights on Tuesday were cancelled

by Aaron Hemens

updated 2h ago

NYC will require COVID vaccination proof for indoor dining, gyms
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Where will homelessness rise or fall? A federally funded AI has some predictions
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Trudeau Liberals maintain lead over rivals ahead of possible election call: poll
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Winds, thunderstorms in the forecast for B.C. fire zone
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Tree planter dies after bear attack in northern Alberta
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Canadian Olympic sprinter and record-holder Angela Bailey dies

Bailey’s 1987 Canadian women’s 100-metre sprint record time of 10.98 seconds still stands today

by The Canadian Press

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Andre De Grasse, of Canada, competes in a heat of the men’s 200-meters at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Petr David Josek

Canada shut out of medals again, but sprinters De Grasse, Brown provide hope

Country left without any hardware to celebrate for the second straight day

by The Canadian Press

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