Kelowna

British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office has signed an agreement with the Simpcw First Nation on how a proposed open-pit copper mine will be assessed, including the requirement for the nation’s consent for the project to proceed.

The provincial agency that targets unlicensed cannabis operations says it has seized nearly $8 million worth of the drug from four warehouses across B.C.

Lightning strikes were flickering across British Columbia’s southern Interior on Wednesday afternoon, as a weather system that firefighters fear will trigger a surge in ignitions began to make its presence felt.

A B.C. mortgage broker has agreed to pay more than $28,000 to a provincial regulator after admitting to conducting business “in a manner prejudicial to the public interest.”

Evacuation alerts were issued east of Osoyoos, B.C., on Monday after a wildfire sparked on Anarchist Mountain.

Residents of British Columbia’s first new municipality in 16 years will soon be voting for a mayor and council.

Search and rescue volunteers in West Kelowna say their search for a missing kayaker was called off after a few hours Friday night.

Environment Canada says parts of central and northern B.C. could see damaging winds from a possibly severe thunderstorm.

John Vassilaki, the former Penticton mayor who misappropriated more than $814,000 from his family business over more than a decade of deception, has been ordered to pay even more damages to those he wronged.

West Kelowna fire chief Jason Broland says that for better or worse, residents and emergency responders of the community in British Columbia’s Okanagan region now have a “deep understanding” of wildfire.

A serious crash on Highway 1 between Salmon Arm and Sicamous sent four people to hospital, two of them in critical condition, according to paramedics.

Mounties in Kamloops, B.C., are trying to identify a man who allegedly committed an indecent act in a thrift store last month.

An organization representing B.C. orchardists says stage three water restrictions in Vernon will negatively impact their crops and could cause hundreds of millions of dollars in economic loss.

A massive fire that destroyed a care home under construction in Penticton, B.C., is being investigated as suspicious.

British Columbia’s highest court has upheld a prison sentence for a man who stabbed a Kelowna police officer in the eye, ruling that his significant mental health issues did not justify a shorter sentence for the unprovoked attack.