Kelowna

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.

The City of Penticton has cancelled an evacuation order and lifted a state of local emergency about a week after a fire burned down the site of a long-term care home.

A highway closure in the Kootenays earlier this week was part of an investigation into a man’s suspicious disappearance nearly one year ago.

A dog named Daisy who went missing after a car crash in B.C.’s Okanagan has been reunited with her family after a local search and rescue volunteer took it upon himself to lend a hand.

The B.C. city of Penticton will be representing municipalities in a class-action lawsuit against the makers of so-called “forever chemicals” for contaminating drinking-water systems.

A break-in suspect whose fingerprints were found on a Christmas card inside the targeted home has been acquitted of the crime, after a B.C. judge ruled the Crown had not proven his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Five British Columbia communities reached record temperature highs on Thursday as warm weather blanketed much of Western Canada.

The City of Penticton has declared a local state of emergency after a massive fire at the site of a long-term care home triggered the evacuation of multiple properties.