Yellow air-quality warning continues
Grand Forks and Rock Creek still show yellow air-quality warnings. Today’s forecast is less smoke-explicit than Thursday, but includes showers and thunderstorm risk; Saturday adds haze.
Greenwood · Midway · Grand Forks · Boundary Region
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Updated August 14, 2026 06:31 AM PDT
Grand Forks and Rock Creek still show yellow air-quality warnings. Today’s forecast is less smoke-explicit than Thursday, but includes showers and thunderstorm risk; Saturday adds haze.
DriveBC continues to list Spraggett Road closed between Carson Road and Almond Gardens Road West until September 30. Highway 3 utility work remains active west of the Highway 3 / Highway 33 junction.
N61319 remains the closest out-of-control map point. N51590 appeared as a small Being Held entry about 62 km away. EmergencyInfoBC and the DriveBC alert API did not show a Boundary evacuation item.
Civic and community watch list
City of Greenwood public pages returned 200 in Friday’s automated pull. Stage 2 watering rules and the all-open-burning prohibition banner remain visible.
Read today’s City desk →The live eSCRIBE calendar check showed agenda links for the August 10 Regular Council Meeting, but no minutes or recording. September 8 meetings are listed with no agenda yet in the latest monitor file.
Read today’s council note →Community questions remain unverified by official or named sources in public-source checks. Ledge is seeking documents, meeting references, named sources or an official statement.
Read the developing note →Source policy
The Daily Watch reads official-source feeds first: City of Greenwood, EmergencyInfoBC, DriveBC, BC Wildfire/DriveBC wildfire layer, Environment Canada weather data and RDKB when accessible. Facebook and community posts are treated as leads only unless verified by an official or named source.