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UPDATE: 7 p.m.

The Trans-Canada Highway west of Revelstoke has reopened after it was briefly closed Thursday evening for avalanche control. 

ORIGINAL: 6:15 p.m.

The Trans-Canada Highway is temporarily closed west of Revelstoke Thursday night as crews work to control the avalanche risk in the area. 

A six-kilometre stretch of Highway 1, between Malakwa's 19 Mile Road and Three Valley Siding Road, is expected to be closed until 7 p.m.

Crews are performing avalanche control work in the area. Earlier Thursday, a province-wide avalanche warning was issued, citing very weak layers in the snowpack buried anywhere between 60 and 150 centimetres. 

Castanet will update this story when the highway reopens.