1+ week, 3+ day ago   (275+ words) Vernon North Okanagan RCMP have arrested one person in connection to a pair of grass fires Tuesday near Swan Lake. Cpl. Tania Finn said on Tuesday Sept. 1, at approximately 3 p.m., police along with fire crews from the Vernon and BX Swan…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1752+ words) Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart alleges in a civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court that Metro Vancouver defamed him amid an independent investigation of an alleged data breach involving sensitive legal documents. Stewart filed the claim Aug. 28 through lawyer Paul Hildebrand....

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (161+ words) Once drunk, twice slumped behind the wheel of a vehicle led to the arrest of one Nelson driver recently. On the mid-morning of Aug. 20, a City of Nelson bylaw officer tipped off the Nelson Police Department (NPD) of a possibly…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (833+ words) The Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen Emergency Operations Centre said they are continuing to coordinate safe resident reentry with provincial agencies. During a live-streamed Saturday morning update, the RDOS' Erick Thompson said they are getting residents access to their properties…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1725+ words) A Nanaimo RCMP officer has pleaded guilty to a breach of trust for having sex with a vulnerable woman while off-duty in July 2024. Const. Mark Tyler Hilland, 47, entered the plea in B.C. provincial court on Aug. 13 and will be sentenced at…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (110+ words) Residents of a Kelowna home are in the care of Emergency Support Services this morning following a damaging garage fire. KFD assistant fire chief Jason Bedell said crews were called at 5:50 a.m. to a report of a fire in the 1000 block…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (502+ words) Kelowna RCMP say they have arrested a suspect in connection to the fire on Knox Mountain. Police say witnesses identified the suspect to responding officers, who chased him down and arrested him after a brief foot chase. "We would like…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (375+ words) A demolition company based in Alberta has filed a lawsuit against the owners of Lake Okanagan Resort, three years after the McDougall Creek wildfire ravaged the property along Westside Road. The plaintiff, McColman & Sons Demolition of Edmonton, is seeking a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (175+ words) The City of Kelowna has mobilized to clean up debris left by an encampment along Mill Creek. Bocskei has been tracking the hazards at the site for several weeks. He and residents who live on Dilworth Mountain have repeatedly called…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (175+ words) Mariah Banning Baer, of West Kelowna, has been arrested and charged in connection with two grass fires in Vernon’s Commonage earlier this month. On Tuesday Aug. 4, at 1:23 p.m., officers from the Vernon North Okanagan responded to a grass fire on…...