Category Archives: Top News Stories
Kelowna sends ESS Volunteers to Assist Prince George
A core group of dedicated Emergency Support Services volunteers from the Central Okanagan are assisting evacuees at the Prince George Reception Centre. Six members of the Central Okanagan Emergency Su...
Duane Grandbois Aug 19, 2018
Kelowna Apple Triathalon Cancelled for Sunday
This from the Kelowna Apple Triathalon Twitter page..."We are heartbroken to announce all of today's races have been canceled. The air quality health index (AQHI) remains at very high levels". The smo...
Duane Grandbois Aug 19, 2018
Wildfire Wrap as of Sunday Morning
The latest on the Monashee Cluster indicates the Harris Creek 16 kilometres southeast of Lumby now sits at 508 hectares. This fire is classified active and out of control. Twenty-one personnel on site...
Duane Grandbois Aug 19, 2018
Kelowna Apple Triathlon Cancelled Today: Revised Sunday Sched.
Due to Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) rated at 10+ in the Kelowna region, which is considered very high risk, all races at the Kelowna Apple Triathlon have been canceled on Saturday including the CAM...
Duane Grandbois Aug 18, 2018
Monashee Complex Fire Recap as of Noon Saturday
The Monashee Complex started at 27 fires and now covers 15 fires in the drainages of Mabel and Sugar lakes from just south of Hwy 6 in the south to Three Valley Gap in the north. The IMT currently man...
Duane Grandbois Aug 18, 2018
Mini Donut Rolls Out 50 Years of Deliciousness
As iconic as the Playland Wooden Coaster or the Superdogs, the mini donut is an institution of the annual Fair at the PNE. Those Little Donuts, the original mini donut vendor, began selling the warm c...
Duane Grandbois Aug 18, 2018
Smoky Skies High Risk Bulletin Remains in Place
Air quality advisories remain in place in B-C, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba from the smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in B-C. On the air quality health index scale, the North and Central...
Duane Grandbois Aug 18, 2018
Hwy 97A North of Enderby ***NOW OPEN
Drive BC reports a major incident 5 km north of Enderby on Highway 97A that closed the highway in both directions has been cleared up and the highway is open in both directions .
Duane Grandbois Aug 18, 2018
Gun Ban For Man After Armed Incident
A Vernon man has been handed a three-year weapons ban and a 12-month probation order over an incident last winter when RCMP officers surrounded a home. Forty-five-year-old Craig Lee Wilson pleaded gui...
Kate Bouey Aug 17, 2018
Wanted Man Nabbed After Fleeing Cops
He tried to get away twice but a Falkland man wanted on several outstanding warrants was finally captured by police last week. Police say 28-year-old Jordan McCann was spotted in an uninsured vehicle ...
Kate Bouey Aug 17, 2018

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