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After years fighting red tape Lake Country group permitted to dredge Oyama Canal
For the past several years a grassroots movement has been trying to get permission from…
You may already be using it but Okanagan Rail Trail opens for real next month
OKANAGAN – It’s official. The Okanagan Rail Trail will legally open at the end of…
Body of Alberta tourist pulled from Wood Lake in Lake Country
LAKE COUNTRY – Rescuers were unable to save the life of an Alberta man who…
Bystanders use water bottles, handfuls of dirt to fight roadside fire in Lake Country
LAKE COUNTRY – Bystanders jumped into action Monday night to stop a roadside fire in…
FLOOD WATCH 2017: Oyama is stuck between two overflowing lakes
OYAMA – Stuck between two lakes is probably the worst place to be during a…
Former Kelowna councillor may force rail trail off its tracks
OKANAGAN – Local municipalities won’t be getting a continuous stretch of land as part of…
Rail trail group itching to get going on CN corridor
HOPE TO BE OPEN BY JULY 2017 OKANAGAN – They’ve got a construction plan, some…
Botched Winfield fruit stand theft caught on video
LAKE COUNTRY – Yesterday, a persistent thief's efforts to break into Winfield fruit stand safe…
Wildfire in Lake Country not a threat to property
LAKE COUNTRY – B.C. Wildfire initial attack crews are working to contain a wildfire in…
Two people in critical condition following ATV rollover in Oyama
LAKE COUNTRY – Two local men are in hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries after the…
Oyama man gets jail for sex chat with undercover cop posing as child
KELOWNA – An Oyama man will spend the next 45 weekends in jail for talking about sex online with an undercover cop who was pretending to be a 14-year-old girl. Cory Samuel Brosnikoff, 46, pleaded guilty in Kelowna Provincial Court Friday, Sept. 25 to one count of child luring by telecommunication. Police executed a search...
Local man documents entire CN rail corridor for posterity
KELOWNA – An Okanagan man with a passion for local history has begun work on a video he hopes will preserve the significance of the CN Rail corridor for generations to come. Alan Gatzke spent dozens of hours and thousands of dollars from his own pocket to modify his pickup so it could be used...
Get bare in the air for breast cancer research
KELOWNA – Get ready, get set, get naked. It’s time for Naked Ziplining at ZipZone in Peachland, where participants will strip down in support of breast cancer research. Women of all shapes and sizes who raise at least $200 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation will get bare in the air for this important event....
Speed traps make law breakers see double over the weekend
VERNON - RCMP used a cunning technique to nab speeders along Highway 97 south of Vernon over the weekend. Officers with the traffic section set up two separate speed operations within five kilometres of each other on the highway between Vernon and Winfield on March 14 and 15. Drivers who thought they'd put the pedal...
Speed trap season opens in the Central Okanagan
CENTRAL OKANAGAN - It's getting nice outside and with more drivers leaving their dens for the open road RCMP traffic enforcement operations are ramping up to catch those who drive faster than the posted speed limits. A few hours were spent on the new section of Highway 97 between Oyama and Winfield Sunday afternoon, March...