Thanks to a $7.5 million top up to the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund (CEPF), seven more local governments and First Nations communities have had structural flood mitigation projects approved, helping them reduce the impacts of flooding.

Following the creation and introduction of the Adult Guardianship Act in 1993, the B.C. Association of Community Response Networks (BCCRN) was piloted with five networks.

Local governments and First Nations in 28 communities have been approved to receive their share of more than $1 million in provincial emergency preparedness funding to support evacuation route planning.

Drivers can now cross the Kispiox Bridge as construction crews have completed repairs.

Drivers are advised the weight restrictions for the Kispiox Bridge have been raised from eight tonnes to 30 tonnes.

Crews will begin work on permanent repairs to the Kispiox Bridge this afternoon.

Crews will begin work on permanent repairs to the Kispiox Bridge this afternoon.

Drivers are advised that the Kispiox Bridge opened to passenger vehicles, or ones less than 8 tonnes in weight, last night at approximately 8 p.m.

Drivers are advised that the Kispiox Bridge, approximately 15 kilometres north of Hazelton, is closed.