Weatherhood B.C.

WILLIAMS LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Residents of Williams Lake, B.C.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three

LABRADOR CITY, N.L. — Labrador City residents who were ordered to evacuate last week after the reignition of a once-smouldering fire near the town were allowed to return home Monday.

NEW-WES-VALLEY, N.L. — There was a powerful word being repeated in the joyful Newfoundland community of New-Wes-Valley on Sunday: "Miracle.

The number of fires in B.C. soared past 300 on Friday afternoon, most caused by recent lightning storms, then fuelled by hot, dry weather and winds.

More lightning is forecast through the Central and Southern Interior late Friday afternoon and into the evening.

The Shetland Creek wildfire scorched much of the area on Wednesday night, and now officials are getting their first good look at the damage.

BARNET, Vt. (AP) — Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont, Joe’s Brook Farm was flooded again by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. This time it was worse.

A wildland fire ecologist snapped the photo during a flight over the Fraser Valley on July 18.

MUDZI, Zimbabwe (AP) — It’s Tuesday morning, and 5-year-old Talent should be in school. Instead, he's foraging for the fruit that his family is counting on for food now that crops have withered in the heat.