BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada (NBC) – Canada is seeing its worst-ever start to wildfire season with blazes ravaging much of the country and creating hazardous smoky conditions. Aerial footage filmed by the BC Wildfire Service showed wildfires burning around six miles ...

Author: Pat Dooris, Jamie Parfitt PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Casting about for ways to get a handle on entrenched problems with drug use and addiction, the Canadian province of British Columbia embarked early this year on a pilot program decriminalizing ...

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada (NBC) – Over 100 fires are burning across central British Columbia as meteorologists warned of more lightning strikes over this past weekend that could further stoke forest fires fanned by high winds. More than ten times the ...

SKAGWAY, Alaska – A series of earthquakes struck along the Alaska-British Columbia border Monday morning. A magnitude 6.2 quake hit at around 5:30 a.m. Pacific time and a 6.3 quake occurred at 7:18 a.m. The earthquakes were accompanied by a ...

(KING) Emergency management agencies across the Pacific Northwest are taking part in a massive earthquake and tsunami drill. The four-day event, called Cascadia Rising, begans Tuesday. Federal officials say about 20,000 people will be involved in the disaster drill, representing ...

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