Melvin Gurr, the last surviving member of the defiant crew that built the so-called Freedom Road from Bella Coola to Anahim Lake 63 years ago, snorts at the suggestion the steepest and most ...

Summer road trips have always been a blast for Sean Scallion and his family, but their 300-kilometre journey from Bella Coola to Quesnel, B.C., this weekend turned out to be one of their most ...

An 84-kilometre stretch of Highway 20 is closed east of Bella Coola because of a rock slide that struck the highway Sunday. The B.C. Ministry of Transportation estimates that the highway can be ...

Highway 20 in B.C.'s Chilcotin region has reopened to traffic after being closed overnight due to the Beef Trail Creek wildfire, but the Coquihalla Highway remains shut between Merritt and Hope as a ...

Wet weather continues to wreak havoc in B.C.'s mountain roads, leaving the Central Coast community of Bella Coola cut off from the rest of the province. A section of Highway 20 known locally as the ...

When the wind blows, fires smouldering on the mountains looming over the Bella Coola Valley roar back to life and the Freedom Highway closes, cutting off about 2,500 residents from the outside world ...

One month after a massive flood destroyed their farms, fencing, livestock and feed, Bella Coola farmers are facing a dilemma: Kill the remaining animals now, or scrounge up the money somehow to feed ...

Archival photo of the gravel Freedom Road into Bella Coola, now part of Highway 20. It remains largely unchanged today. Melvin Gurr, the last surviving member of the defiant crew that built the ...