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The mayor and council in Kelowna, B.C., have called on Ottawa to shut a supervised consumption site in the city’s downtown core, saying its impacts, including thousands of police call-outs and “significant and ongoing public safety risks,” have become unsustainable.
A 27-year-old woman is dead after a collision on Highway 97 in Lake Country Tuesday night, local Mounties say.
In the 110 years since weather records started being kept in Castlegar, B.C., no Aug. 26 had ever been hotter than the first one: 33.9 C on Aug. 26, 1916.
More than a dozen B.C. communities set or tied records for their hottest Aug. 21 ever Friday, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Mounties in West Kelowna say they recently disrupted a counterfeiting operation at a home on Shannon Place.
Police in Salmon Arm say they arrested a man “well known” to them Wednesday after responding to a call about a smashed front door at a local business.
A person is facing six criminal charges in connection with two grass fires police allege were deliberately set in Vernon, B.C., earlier this month.
After an unconventional start to their lives, five tiny turtle hatchlings are busy exploring their temporary habitat at a wildlife rehabilitation centre.
Within a few hours of meeting his 17-year-old co-worker in July 2021, Bryan John Miles was sexually assaulting her in the backseat of a car.
Migrant workers who are key to British Columbia’s orchards, farms and ranches have been left with an uncertain future after a wildfire swept through the Okanagan near Summerland, forcing them to evacuate without knowing when they’ll be able to return.
A man who set multiple fires in Kelowna, B.C., and threatened a bylaw officer with a slingshot has been sentenced to jail after a judge found that significant mental health and substance-use issues reduced his moral culpability for the crimes.
B.C. has declared a provincial state of emergency after the fast-moving Bald Range wildfire swept through B.C.’s Okanagan Valley Friday night, forcing more than 20,000 people to evacuate their homes.
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.
