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Pickleball players in Coldstream still won't be able to use the Mount Ida courts on Saturdays. A request was made last month to drop Friday to allow Saturday play. Mayor Jim Garlick says after surveyi...

Hundreds of the evacuated residents of the Okanagan Centre wildfire are being allowed to go home. The Emergency Operation Centre says after an assessment this afternoon between Lake Country Fire and t...

The smoke in the air around Vernon has sparked a few calls about a possible new wildfire -- but the BC Wildfire Service says, as far as it's aware, there isn't one. Kiss FM has had a few calls about t...

Eight homes on Nighthawk Road, as well as outbuildings on one property on Tyndall Road were lost overnight from the Okanagan Centre wildfire in Lake Country. Impacted property owners attended a meetin...

Vernon will be a temporary home to hundreds of BC fire evacuees, with many of them expected to be from Williams Lake. The entire city of over ten thousand residents was evacuated Saturday night. The e...

At last word, the wildfire that broke out in Lake Country Saturday evening was mapped at 55 hectares and was 80 per cent contained thanks to retardant that was dropped to ring the fire zone. Local fir...

Update 10:30 am Lake Country deputy fire chief Brent Penner provides update on Okanagan Centre wildfire with Kiss FM's Duane Grandbois Sunday morning. Click on the audio link above. A news conference ...

As part of the provincial response to wildfires that have forced evacuations, City of Vernon is activating and operating a group lodging facility at the request of the Province of B.C. for evacuees of...

The City of Williams Lake has ordered its residents to leave, with the threat from surrounding wildfires now too great. The evacuation order, signed by Mayor Walt Cobb, comes after the entire city was...

With many people being displaced due to wildfires in British Columbia, there are two main methods of obtaining aid. Evacuated residents are eligible for one or both of the following services, dependin...