Kelowna

A ferocious fire has forced thousands of residents out in Summerland and Peachland along British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake. It’s unclear if homes have been lost in the latest fire to flare up in the province, but it’s been an early and destructive start to the wildfire season with hundreds of homes lost in separate fires.

When Tom Davison’s son-in-law invested in firefighting equipment for their orchard near Vernon, B.C., after a wildfire swept past in 2021, Davison wasn’t sure the hoses would get much use.

Evacuation orders cover the entire community of Summerland, population 12,000, while a further 8,000 were told to flee in and around Peachland, both on the western shore of the lake in the B.C. Interior.

A newly discovered wildfire’s aggressive, sudden growth Friday night prompted the evacuation of the entire district of Summerland, B.C., as well as surrounding areas.

A Kelowna man has been sentenced to eight months in jail for possession of child sexual abuse material.

A man was rescued from Okanagan Lake Friday after what local police described as “a marine incident.”

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.