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Update: 6 am Highway 97A near Sicamous was closed for several hours Tuesday after a crash. A transport truck tipped on its side along Mara Lake, blocking both lanes, about 5 km's south of Sicamous. Th...

Greater Vernon residents have been cutting back on their water use -- which is helping to keep reservoir levels in in good shape. Jennifer Miles, water sustainability coordinator for the Regional Dist...

Update 6 am With files from Power 104 Kelowna The area at the foot of Black Mountain in Kelowna is a little blacker today after a grass fire yesterday afternoon along Highway 33 right by Black Mountai...

Crews continue to make progress on the largest fire burning in the Kamloops Fire Centre. The Elephant Hill Fire, north of Cache Creek, has not grown over the last few days. "There is continued progres...

The Vernon Curling Club has a new parking lot. The City says work on the upgrade is wrapping up on time and on budget. It will reopen Wednesday (Aug. 23) in time for an antique and outdoor show at the...

Police are trying to find out who fired a gun at a residence in Salmon Arm. It happened last Sunday around 3 in the morning in the 1700 block of 11th Avenue SE. Mounties say they got a number of calls...

Fire officials have wrapped up an investigation into the cause of a wildfire in Spallumcheen earlier this month. The Patterson Creek fire burned about 4 hectares Aug. 10 and put 200 homes in evacuatio...

Coldstream may be taking a look at how it can improve park and ride services throughout the community. Mayor Jim Garlick says more people want it and there's an area by Okanagan College that would be ...

The Canadian Cancer Society has cancelled this year's Run For The Cure in Vernon. Last fall's event at Marshall Field drew about 300 people and raised about 20-thousand dollars for breast cancer resea...

BC has not only set a record for most area burned in one fire season, but also for what is believed to be the biggest single fire. Kevin Skrepnek from the BC Wildfire Service says the Plateau fire bet...