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It's now official. BC has its first minority government in 65 years. After the final vote count in the closely contested riding of Courtenay Comox, the NDP candidate beat the Liberal by 189 votes, the...

Emergency personnel were called to a construction site on 20th Street in Vernon in the area behind Walmart this morning. WorkSafe BC tells Kiss FM, one of their officers visited the site after a worke...

A number of docks were destroyed on Okanagan and Kalamalka lakes due to last night's windstorm. The remnants of the damage have washed up on local beaches today. The Vernon Yacht Club says they had ve...

Update: 1 pm A number of factors have led to the Regional District of North Okanagan cancelling an evacuation alert connected to a wildfire near Lumby. The notice was issued Tuesday night for homes on...

The Okanagan Indian Band Emergency Operations Centre (OKIB EOC) is responsible for assisting all residents on OKIB lands, band member and non-band members, who are affected by the recent flooding. A t...

The District of Coldstream has closed the Rotary Pier at Kalamalka Lake. Coldstream's Chief Administrative Officer Trevor Seibel says it's a precautionary move. "The waves last night were obviously cr...

Coldstream firefighters had quite a time battling a fire in a shavings pile at Coldstream Ranch last evening. Fire chief Dave Sturgeon says crews were called about 5:45 and found the pile was full in ...

It was windy night and for many in B.C., a night without power. B.C. Hydro says almost 75,000 customers were without power at the height of last night's storm, most on the Lower Mainland and in the Th...

Update: 8:02am BC Hydro has restored power to approximately 184,000 BC customers as of this morning. The Thompson-Shuswap remains the largest area still without power with over 18K customers being aff...

OKIB issues evacuation orders for flood affected residents in four locations Okanagan Indian Band IR #1 - 23/05/2017 - The Okanagan Indian Band declared a State of Emergency on May 5, 2017 and have ex...