Okanagan

On Thursday, all evacuation orders in Kelowna were downgraded to alerts as officials with the Central Okanagan Emergency Operations announced two fires that had sparked in the Okanagan city were now considered held.

Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen (RDOS), rocks from a nearby hill fell onto a pathway at Garnett Family Park in Okanagan Falls.

Okanagan College students Reece LeGuilloux and Kayla Warner were awarded $4,300 in funding by 100 Women Who Care in the South Okanagan Similkameen.

The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen Emergency Operations Centre (RDOS EOC) is advising residents to take steps to protect their properties adjacent to Okanagan Lake, Skaha Lake and Vaseux Lake.

The small South Okanagan ski hill is the last in the Okanagan to close.

These problems, plaguing Penticton, the South Okanagan and the Okanagan Nation Alliance, have an origin point.

A.B. met his alleged rapist in the summer of 1979 at the Vernon Cadet Training Centre at Commonage Mountain in the North Okanagan region.

About 16 kilometres north of Naramata on the east side of Okanagan Lake was once a top-secret base called Commando Bay where 13 Chinese-Canadians were trained to work behind enemy lines in South East Asia during the Second World War.

Almost all remaining evacuation orders issued for the Regional District of Central Okanagan and the City of West Kelowna have been rescinded, with the exception of a handful of properties in West Kelowna.

A previous version mistakenly said Ross Kotscherofski referred to fires on the east side of Lake Okanagan.

As the McDougall Creek wildfire burned bright and hot on Thursday night, flames engulfed trees, sending sparks flying in the wind across Okanagan Lake.

As Victoria Femia reports one Okanagan hospital is currently the busiest in the province.

Bob LaRue, the president of the Central Okanagan Shotgun Sports Club, started the competition more than a decade ago and is still competing himself.

Creston’s next home game is Sunday, Oct. 8, as they face the North Okanagan Knights at the Johnny Bucyk.

Crow said salmon may have comprised up to 50 per cent of traditional Syilx Okanagan diets prior to the region losing its fish runs.

Denise Kenney, a professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, said she and her family were caught off guard before having to flee their home in McKinley Landing.

First Nations, Métis and Inuit athletes will have a chance to compete in the inaugural Indigenous Golf Championship of British Columbia this May at the Nk'Mip Canyon Desert Golf Course in the south Okanagan, about 100 kilometres south of Kelowna.

Former city councillor, and Okanagan MLA and MP, Al Horning was honoured by Kelowna council on Feb. 6,2023.

Gaudry’s influence extended far beyond Kaleden, having helped create the South Okanagan Similkameen Fire Chiefs Association.

However, this will be Shantz’s last time to represent the Parksville Curling Club as she and husband Stan will be relocating to the Okanagan-Vernon in May.