Tag Archives: Okanagan

A call for action will be issued to protect local waterways from invasive mussels. With quagga mussels found in Idaho recently, which sparked concern from the mayor of Vernon, the Okanagan Basin Water...

The third annual Golden Burger Challenge had a famous burger lover as a special guest judge. Patrick Roach, who played Randy in the Trailer Park Boys, sat down at Diner on Six Thursday, Oct. 19, to ch...

B.C.’s police watchdog has opened an investigation into a man being shot by police in West Kelowna. The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO BC) will investigate the case to determine ...

An Alberta man has been convicted on a charge of trying to bring illegal gun magazines across the border in the South Okanagan. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said Jody Stuart Bishop, a resi...

The recent rain has helped quench the drought situation locally. The B.C. River Forecast Centre reported the Okanagan Basin as being at Drought Level 2 Thursday, Oct. 19. That marked a significant imp...

UPDATE: 5 a.m. A police-involved shooting in West Kelowna on Wednesday happened in the area of Skyline Lane in Lakeview Heights where a suspect went into a porta-potty on an empty lot and stayed there...

Vernon Towne Theatre has brought the 2023 Okanagan 48 Hour Film Project entries to the silver screen. In September, 13 teams from across B.C., including from Vernon, Salmon Arm, Kelowna and Kamloops, ...

Police recently checked about 400 vehicles for winter tires over a four hour period on the Connector. During the enforcement on October 10, officers issued several fines including: One commercial vehi...

B.C.’s opposition party is demanding answers from the NDP government, as to why the former medical health officer of Interior Health was still paid for a full year after he was arrested for sexu...

Public pool users in Kelowna will be displaced until January. The City of Kelowna said the pool and aquatic area at Parkinson Recreation Centre would be temporarily closed due a boiler failure that re...