Eighteen Oregon agencies participated in the week-long training. It started with a day of classroom work, followed by four days of work in area rivers.

Bristol Community College has started training people to work in offshore wind farms. But will it have a place under ...

For anyone heading to the back country, be careful out there. Coralie Nairn, with Vernon Search and Rescue, warns there is an “extreme avalanche hazard right now” in the region.

Lucy Holmes has been a coastguard for about two years, and works at the Brixham Marina. She said she became a coastguard ...

The third retrieval – the most complex – involved a rescue in the water itself. One of the firefighters climbed into the lake ...

The McLeod County Board, with four of five members attending, approved the following items at its Aug. 6 meeting: NURSE SERVICES: Approved contracts with New Century Academy and New Discoveries ...

NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF APRIL 17, 2009 Litchfield students can look forward to a longer-than-normal summer break this year, but it’s not without a downside. The next school year ...

Coralie Nairn of Vernon Search and Rescue (VSAR) told Black Press Media on Friday that Avalanche Canada currently has most of the Okanagan under a "considerable" warning for avalanches, with some ...

Calshot RNLI recently celebrated the successful pass out of two of its volunteer crew members, Ant Hole and Kyle Robbertze on ...