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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says housing starts in BC trended higher in May with gains in Kelowna, Abbotsford-Mission and other urban areas off-setting a slower pace in Vancouver and Victo...

Fortune Creek in Spallumcheen continues to pose a problem for residents living along its banks. The Township supplied more sand and sandbags on the weekend. Mayor Janice Brown says it may be time to l...

Lake Country Council has received a report on a Boat Impact Study for Kalamalka and Wood Lakes. The study looks at the need to create a meaningful balance between protecting the lakes and recreational...

RCMP were called to a report of a group of intoxicated people fighting on the pier at Kal Beach on Kalamalka Lake in Coldstream Tuesday around 6pm Cpl. Dan Moskaluk says when officers got there, beach...

One of the hardest hit local communities by flooding is the Okanagan Indian Band, with a number of residents still evacuated. And as a result of that, the band's emergency operations centre is in urge...

Health officials are urging Interior communities -- like Greater Vernon -- to move forward with system improvements, to make drinking water safer. That's one of the recommendations from a new report o...

Kal and Wood Lakes seem to be stabilizing and further flooding isn't expected. Properties on the south end of Kalamalka Lake were especially hard hit. Already, there is some talk about how to handle r...

It seems Greater Vernon's business leaders are pleased with the direction of local politicians. The leaders of the Regional District of North Okanagan, Coldstream, and Vernon presented their annual up...

BC's next government could be decided in a little over two weeks. Liberal Government House Leader Michael de Jong says the legislature will be recalled on June 22. "The first order of business in this...

Update: 12:50 pm An evacuation alert has been issued by the District of Lake Country for the following properties due to localized flooding: 15770 Oyama Road, 15750 Oyama Road, and 15730 Oyama Road. "...