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A couple of new fires spark in the Okanagan, another heat wave warning is issued for the region, and a suspect is at large after an early morning armed robbery in Kelowna.

A recent report by the Kelowna RCMP will be discussed at Monday’s city council meeting. As Victoria Femia reports, robberies and break-and-enters are among crimes that are on the rise – and so is child exploitation.

Police have two men in custody following a robbery at a Kelowna liquor store.

An alarming explosion shook a West Kelowna neighbourhood Tuesday afternoon. A truck went up in flames in a field near Gellately Road. RCMP say the vehicle was used in the robbery of a West Kelowna sporting good store about a half hour earlier. Police have yet to arrest the two suspects and say they should...

Police are still looking for two men involved in a brazen armed robbery in West Kelowna yesterday. The masked men burst into an outdoor sporting store, held the owner at gunpoint and then fled with several firearms. As Klaudia Van Emmerik reports, it was just a short time later that their getaway vehicle was found,...

A West Kelowna family is struggling after a string of tough luck. Dallas Edwards, his wife Monika, and their two children were victims of a house fire and a home robbery within days of each other.

You know it’s a robbery gone bad when the bad guy with the gun accidentally shoots himself in the face. That’s what happened during a home-invasion style robbery in Kelowna. The bungled heist left the gunman without one eye and the bullet is still lodged in his brain. In a plea-bargain deal that negates a...

Police from the Okanagan and Abbotsford executed a robbery search warrant on Bernard Avenue in Kelowna on Wednesday.

“On edge and violated,” said a Kelowna mother after realizing that two men had come on to her Joe Rich property – stealing thousands of dollars worth of construction tools.

A woman who was kidnapped in Kamloops on Thursday following an armed robbery was linked to police raiding an apartment unit in Kelowna later in the day. One of the two robbery suspects was arrested in the Kelowna raid.

Concern for safety following a stabbing in the parking lot at the Kelowna International Airport. Police said a man returning to his vehicle from a flight interrupted a suspected robber.

RCMP are investigating after two reported gas station robberies on Highway 33 in Kelowna on Thursday night. The suspect in one of the incidents threatened the attendant with a large knife, according to staff.

Several police officers were involved in raiding a Kelowna apartment on Valentine’s Day. On Friday, police revealed that it was linked to an armed robbery in Kamloops in which a woman was kidnapped.

It was a scene of chaos and confusion and only now is the picture slowly coming together. RCMP say the incident that forced the partial closure of Bernard Avenue near Gordon Drive in Kelowna yesterday was related to a kidnapping in Kamloops. They say it started with a robbery and ended with arrests in Kelowna...

The crime happened more than a year ago and the 85-year-old woman still lives in fear. The sanctity of her West Kelowna home, and her sense of security, were shattered in a late night home invasion style robbery. Now, the drug addict who committed the crime has been handed a lengthy prison sentence.

Police from the Okanagan and Abbotsford executed a robbery search warrant on Bernard Avenue in Kelowna on Wednesday.

Two masked men robbed an adult store in downtown Kelowna, tying up the employees and taking cash and sex toys. Jules Knox reports.

RCMP converged on a Kelowna coffee shop Wednesday after a robbery occurred at closing time.