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The evacuation order impacts the village of Slocan, B.C., as well as more than 400 properties in the areas surrounding the community, which is about 370 km east of Kelowna.

The latest community to be affected is Slocan, a community that is around 30 kilometres south of New Denver. The district upgraded the evacuation alert, which was issued for the village and nearby ...

B.C.’s driver information service, DriveBC, says Highway 6 remains closed for nearly 40 kilometres from south of Slocan to one kilometre beyond New Denver to the north. Article content ...

The mayor of Slocan, B.C., says the skies were filled with ominous thick smoke while she drove out of her community that's now under an evacuation order as wildfires burn on either side. Jessica ...

A group of residents is on a mission to breathe life back into a piece of land once home to a beloved community building. The Old South Slocan Schoolhouse Working Group (OSSS) is raising funds to ...

SLOCAN, B.C. - Jessica Lunn, mayor of Slocan in British Columbia's Kootenay region, said she drove along Highway 6 this week to survey the damage done by a nearby complex ...

The smoke is so thick in New Denver, B.C., that Nicole Blacksioux can no longer see the flames from her deck that were candling up the trees in the wildfire across the lake. With two fires burning ...

Residents of Slocan, B.C. and surrounding areas have been ordered to evacuate.. The Regional District of Central Kootenay said in a statement late Saturday that the order, which takes effect at 8 ...