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"On arrival, fire crews found fire and smoke from the second floor," said Larry Watkinson, deputy fire chief with the Kelowna Fire Department. 

The planned burn at Knox Mountain would be the park's second prescribed burn carried out by the department in the past year.

The collaboration comes after another difficult wildfire season in the Okanagan and builds on previous efforts to test automated drones for wildfire response.

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District said RCMP are investigating three fires in a ditch on Squilax Anglemont Road that were reported around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Peter Andrew Patrick Statham, 27, is charged with theft, assault causing bodily harm and robbery in the Sept. 19 incident at Save-On-Foods on Pandora Avenue.

Mayor Tom Dyas has written to the federal health minister asking that the facility’s 2027 renewal be denied.

'I've been removed for a mistake I made 22 years ago, when I was a 17-year-old kid in high school. And now two American children are going to be left without their father.'

The B.C. Wildfire Service said the Quilpituk Creek wildfire experienced significant growth on Monday, but it is growing up the slope and away from community areas.

"There are some structures that, I'll be turning 67 in November and those structures were there all my life and to see them suddenly gone, it's just devastating," Dan Wilson said.

Tom Zadorsky is part of a movement that aims to awaken a climbers' inner child and give a new perspective on British Columbia's forests.

The Regional District of Central Okanagan says the Kalamoir Regional Park remains closed until further notice while safety and damage assessments are conducted.

Outdoor enthusiasts are loving it, but with the warm weather about to heat up even more this weekend, there's a concern for potential fire starts.

Sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, a fire broke out behind a furniture store, the flames damaging a cardboard recycling dumpster next to the building.

A Global News analysis of Hansard shows Prime Minister Mark Carney has attended Question Period less than 30 per cent of the time, much less than either of his two predecessors.

Vancouver is poised to close out its first official snow-free winter in 43 years, in what environmental researchers say may become a new norm for southwestern British Columbia.

Kelowna RCMP say they have identified individuals of interest and are continuing to investigate. Meanwhile, witnesses say they hope the incident is an isolated one.

In the Kamloops Fire Centre, which includes the Okanagan, 90 per cent of the wildfires were suppressed at five hectares or less.

Johnson said burning and fireworks complaints are common on Halloween but he added that the fire activity isn't only illegal--it's also dangerous.

The drill also involved numerous support agencies, such as Emergency Social Services, Kelowna’s Fire Smart Program and Central Okanagan Search and Rescue.

“I was like, this is going to start a fire,” Johansen recalled. “I just had a weird feeling that something bad was going to happen from it.”