A freezing rainfall warning is in effect for the Fort Nelson area in northeastern B-C.
Environment Canada says Fort Nelson and areas east to the Alberta border could see periods of freezing rain into the early evening.
The weather is expected to make for icy and slippery conditions on highways, roads, walkways and parking lots.
Residents are urged to adjust their driving according to the changing road conditions.
A woman has died and three people were seriously hurt after a crash near Cranbrook. Police say they are still trying to figure out what happened when a black Cadillac Escalade collided with a red Honda C-R-V on Boxing Day on Highway 3-95 near Stropky Road.
Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump has been courting controversy in Canada since his election victory, with threats to impose whopping tariffs on Canadian goods and musings about the country becoming "the 51st state." While Trump's comments have drawn anger and fear among Canadians, reaction from Americans who live, study or work in Canada has been mixed – and largely influenced by how they voted in the presidential election.
Liberal MPs are meeting in Ottawa today for the first time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he will step down. The national caucus meeting, set to take place both in person and online, was originally set to last six hours to give MPs time to discuss Trudeau's previous refusal to resign.
In his early days as prime minister, Justin Trudeau was "cool." In the year that followed his majority sweep into power, he appeared in the pages of Vogue, on the cover of a Marvel comic book and on "The Daily Show," chatting with an up-and-coming Hasan Minhaj.
A pair of Quebec water bombers and their crews are in California helping fight the massive wildfires tearing through the Los Angeles area. Stéphane Caron of Quebec's forest fire protection agency — SOPFEU — says the two planes are sent to the U.S. each fall as part of an annual contract, the length of which was extended this year because of the emergency.
The BC Centre for Disease Control says it is comparing the genetic features of a local teenager's avian flu case with that of a Louisiana patient who died earlier this week. Clinical microbiologist Dr. Agatha Jassem, co-program head of the virology lab at the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory, says they want to understand how the viruses in the two cases are related to each other, as well as to viruses circulating in birds.