Tag Archives: Okanagan
Vehicle fleeing from police hits power pole and causes outage
A driver remains at large after fleeing from police and colliding with a power pole in Kelowna. A police officer tried to conduct a traffic stop with a grey Mercedes-Benz on Falkirk Road around 7:30 p...
Pete McIntyre Oct 29, 2020
UPDATE RCMP locate missing man
UPDATE 6:45 a.m. Oct. 29 RCMP say the missing man has been located. == RCMP is requesting the public's assistance in locating a missing Kelowna resident. Nathan David Copp, 41, was last seen earlier t...
Pete McIntyre Oct 28, 2020
24 new COVID cases in Interior Health, 217 in B.C.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Interior Health (IH) continue to rise. The agency reported 24 new infections on Tuesday, bringing the total to 717 since the pandemic started. There are 92 active c...
Pete McIntyre Oct 27, 2020
RCMP investigating graffiti on city hall
RCMP is investigating after an anti-COVID message was spray-painted on Kelowna City Hall Police received a report Tuesday morning (Oct. 27) that an unknown person had written messages on the north and...
Pete McIntyre Oct 27, 2020
UPDATE Two people killed in Penticton apartment fire
UPDATE 4:15 p.m. Two people died in an apartment fire near Skaha Lake in Penticton this morning (Oct. 27), with dozens of other residents displaced The fire at the three-storey building on Elm Avenue ...
Pete McIntyre Oct 27, 2020
Wilkinson resigns as B.C. Liberal leader
Two days after leading his party to a disastrous showing in a provincial election, B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson has announced his resignation. In a brief statement to media Monday (Oct. 26), W...
Pete McIntyre Oct 26, 2020
Several people injured after SUV hits bus
RCMP say five people were injured after an SUV ran into a BC Transit bus in Kelowna. Police say on Friday (Oct. 23) at 10:15 p.m., police responded to a collision at the intersection of Dilworth Drive...
Pete McIntyre Oct 26, 2020
$1 million lotto win for North Okanagan resident
A stop for candy for her kids, had a sweet ending for an Armstrong resident. Christyna Whieldon bought a Lotto 6/49 ticket while treating her kids to candy at the Deep Creek General Store, a ticket th...
Pete McIntyre Oct 26, 2020
UPDATE Six suspects facing charges after major drug lab bust
Suspects are going to court this week after charges were approved in one of the largest illicit drug labs ever found in B.C., a facility raided by police in Lumby two years ago. RCMP say the lab on Tr...
Pete McIntyre Oct 26, 2020
Voter turnout estimated at 52 per cent; 525,000 mail-in votes
Elections BC has a busy next few weeks ahead. The provincial agency still has to verify and then count the more than 500,000 mail-in ballots that have been received for the B.C. election held on Oct. ...
Pete McIntyre Oct 26, 2020