A major highway in the British Columbia Interior has been partially closed due to "urgent sink hole repairs."
The provincial Transportation Ministry's DriveBC information system says the Coquihalla Highway has been closed northbound between Hope and Merritt.
DriveBC says the closure is due to what it's calling a "washout" that requires urgent sink hole repairs, and the earliest traffic may resume is at around noon today.
Motorists looking to travel northbound on the Coquihalla are being asked to divert to either Highway 1 or Highway 3.
The closure was first reported by DriveBC at around 8:30 p.m. last night at a location between the Portia and Zopkios Brake Check exits, about three kilometres south of the Great Bear Snowshed.
DriveBC has not released any information on the potential cause of the sink hole.
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