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The May long weekend is the official kickoff to the summer tourism season in the Okanagan. Vernon Tourism Manager Ange Chew told us Thursday, hotels and motels were filling up. "Right now, we're at ab...

Boeing 747 Special Performance landed at Kelowna International Airport Friday afternoon, one of largest planes to land at the facility (City of Kelowna photo) Update: Kelowna International Airport wel...

Update 12:55 pm: Callers now say the crash scene has been cleared. No official details yet from police, but a crash has led to long traffic backups on the highway in Lake Country. Callers say a semi t...

The death toll is ten after a shooting at a high school in the Houston Texas area. A 17-year-old male suspect was taken into custody. Reports say he was a student at the school and played on the junio...

A boil water notice has been issued for customers supplied by the Mabel Lake Water Utility. The Regional District of North Okanagan and Interior Health say it's due to high turbidity levels due to the...

RCMP are asking for public assistance to locate a missing North Okanagan woman. Lisa Ruigrok is a resident of Ashton Creek. a small community east of Enderby. Police have not said when she went missin...

Vernon's Activate Safety Task Force continues to work towards producing recommendations to City council, aimed at reducing the impact of homelessness, poverty, addictions and criminal behaviour on the...

As of 8 this morning, Canadian Forces personnel are assisting Central Okanagan Emergency Operations in protecting local infrastructure from rising lake water. The 45 members of the military will join ...

The warm weather in many areas of BC this week is rapidly melting the mountain snowpack. Dave Campbell from the River Forecast Centre says it's reducing the chances of snow-related flooding. Campbell ...

Officials have increased their estimate for how high Okanagan Lake could rise this spring. Shaun Reimer from the province says the upper limit could reach 343 metres, about 50 centimetres about full p...