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A large hedge fire in Kelowna yesterday has fire officials encouraging residents to rethink their cedar trees. The trees are very common in the Okanagan, but they are highly flammable. Klaudia Van Emmerik reports.

The Prime Minister was in the Okanagan on Friday, in light of emergency preparedness week. Justin Trudeau spoke with media at the West Kelowna fire hall after meeting with local mayors and fire chiefs. Taya Fast reports.

Firefighters at Kelowna Fire Department Station #1 opened their doors to students from across the Central Okanagan to give them a chance to walk in their boots for a day. Sydney Morton has the story.

Kelowna firefighters battled a small brush fire near Highway 97 and McCurdy Road on Tuesday morning.

With persisting dry conditions in the Okanagan, a resource company owned by the Westbank First Nation has committed to years of fire mitigation work. As Victoria Femia reports, the work is already ten years in – and it’s expected to create a long-term strategy to reduce the risk of wildfires.

A home in Peachland is badly damaged by fire, expect increased traffic enforcement in Kelowna this long weekend, and Kelowna’s Apple Bowl is going to the dogs.

A house fire in Peachland left four people and their pets displaced. A motorcycle crash slows traffic along Highway 33 in Kelowna. Tourism is a big success in downtown Kelowna over the Victoria Day long weekend.

A hedge fire in Kelowna has the fire department asking residents to rethink their cedar trees, RCMP has identified the body found in a creek near Big White, and we get a sneak peek at Ballet Kelowna’s season finale production of McBeth.

In West Kelowna, first responders from local fire halls, police, ambulance crews, BC wildland firefighters, and emergency support services were thanked for their efforts during last summer’s destructive McDougall Creek wildfire.

The Parker Lake Wildfire continues to grow in size as it burns two and a half kilometres from Fort Nelson. A fire in Greenwood burns down a historic structure along with multiple others. Kelowna residents share their frustration after FortisBC trims their trees in an unappealing way.

Firehall 7 in Kelowna was introduced to its new firetruck on Saturday. Firefighters immediately gave it a wash with water from the station’s old fire truck, along with handpushing it into the station.

Contraband tobacco sales go online, Kelowna’s downtown armoury hosts an open house and job fair, and a new fire truck is christened in East Kelowna.

Game one of round two didn’t go well for the Kelowna Rockets last night in Prince George. Kelowna ran into a hot young goaltender who turned away everything the Rockets fired at him as the Cougars blanked Kelowna 4-0 to open up a 1-0 series lead. Travis Lowe has the highlights.

A small North Okanagan community is on edge after police released a suspect in a suspicious death case; a suspect has been identified in the fire that razed several businesses in downtown Vernon last summer; work crews in Kelowna are working to clean up the homeless rail trail encampment in the city’s north end; and...

South Okanagan emergency crews prepare for interface fires, a couple from France is cycling across Canada for a good cause, and it was tree pick-up day in West Kelowna.

An investigation is underway after a garage fire on Dougall Road in Kelowna, a slash burn gets out of control in Coldstream, and an Ontario professor wants to study the secret lives of South Okanagan cats.

The City of Kelowna is clearing out a homeless encampment, a fire destroys a home on Mountain Drive, and Okanagan students get ready for the BC Interior Jazz Festival.

As Kelowna’s population continues to grow, Central Okanagan Public Schools is eyeing up the possibility of adding several new schools as part of its 2025/2026 five-year capital plan. Jayden Wasney reports.

A popular Kelowna restaurant has quite literally risen from the ashes. The building burned down in a massive fire in 2020 and as Victoria Femia reports – it’s finally up and running, serving its community that has waited years for this.

Three tenants are out of their home after a house fire in Penticton, long weekend travel is underway and conditions can be unpredictable, and a West Kelowna man wants Air Canada to change its pet policy.