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UPDATE: Work begins to stabilize rockslide threat at Penticton mobile home park
A geotechnical assessment of an unstable slope threatening a Penticton mobile home park has been…
UPDATE: More people evacuated due to wildfire near Osoyoos
Properties to the south of Highway 3 are being evacuated due to the Nk'Mip Creek wildfire.…
Kelowna closing playgrounds but trails stay open for now
Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran announced today, March 23, that all 81 city playgrounds and all…
City of Kamloops declares local state of emergency
The City of Kamloops has declared a state of local emergency. This declaration allows the…
Interior First Nations elders and chiefs declare state of emergency over fentanyl crisis
KAMLOOPS – First Nations elders and chiefs have declared a state of emergency over the…
UPDATE: Cache Creek under state of local emergency; more homes evacuated
CACHE CREEK - Following flash flooding that shut down the highway and destroyed many properties Saturday Cache Creek has been placed under a state of local emergency and several homes evacuated. Mayor John Ranta made the decision Sunday afternoon. In total the heavy rainfall, which lasted for about two hours mid-afternoon on Saturday, May 23,...
Gellatly erosion will turn fish-bearing Smith Creek into a culvert
WEST KELOWNA – A state of emergency has been declared for the slope failure along Gellatly Road, and the District of West Kelowna says their best course of action is to cover and reroute the fish-bearing Smith Creek through a culvert. The 160 metres of Gellatly Road between Witt and Angus Road was closed to...