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From a home with walls packed with stuffed animals to thousands of pounds of diapers dumped in the woods, here are a few offbeat B.C. stories that caught our eye in 2024.

The Okanagan Forest Task Force was recently notified about a trailer dumped along Beaver Lake Road in Lake Country. They decided to post about it on social media.

The task force says it has cleaned up after the family several times and each time they move to another location and leave another mess behind.

Kane Blake, founder of the Okanagan Forest Task Force, says his organization has found multiple illegal campfires at out-of-the-way sites despite a ban in the region.

The fast-moving wildfire was fuelled by a web of extreme conditions that converged into what experts described as a monstrous fire.

Vernon Fire Chief David Lind likens the Interior B.C. city's new artificial-intelligence-driven wildfire detection system to a fire alarm in the forest.

The dumpsite, located along the Okanagan Connector, was reported to the province’s RAPP (Report All Poachers and Polluters) hotline.

The top stories of the year range from residential school discoveries to storms to fires to vaccine mandates and COVID-19 protocols.

B.C. health officials are extending public health restrictions to the Northern Health region of the province as COVID-19 cases there continue to grow.

Sunday morning, the people of Kanesatake and their supporters will march from Oka Park in a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of a 78-day standoff that cost the life of 31-year old Cpl. Marcel Lemay, closed the Mercier Bridge for weeks and cost Canadian taxpayers an estimated $200 million.

PEACHLAND, B.C. - Warrant Officer Dan Lamoureux was in a Buffalo search-and-rescue plane almost 300 metres above British Columbia's Okanagan Valley when he spotted a tangled mess of metal in a patch of broken trees.

PEACHLAND, B.C. - Tilman Hainle lost his boyhood home in the vicious wildfire that swept down a mountainside near this lakeside Okanagan community Sunday, but Canada lost a piece of history.

<p>The strong winds that sent a fire barrelling towards this lakefront community in British Columbia's Okanagan proved too much for firefighters attempting to keep the blaze away from homes, with gusts of wind acting like flame throwers and destroying four houses.</p> <br />

VANCOUVER - It was a dry, hot Sunday afternoon, with winds whipping through British Columbia's Okanagan Valley at speeds as high as 60 kilometres an hour, when a lone RCMP officer found himself staring at fire in a ditch along the highway into the lakeside community of Peachland.

VANCOUVER - It was a dry, hot Sunday afternoon, with winds whipping through British Columbia's Okanagan Valley at speeds as high as 60 kilometres an hour, when a lone RCMP officer found himself staring at fire in a ditch along the highway into the lakeside community of Peachland.

It was a dry, hot Sunday afternoon, with winds whipping through British Columbia's Okanagan Valley at speeds as high as 60 kilometres an hour, when a lone RCMP officer found himself staring at fire in a ditch along the highway into the lakeside community of Peachland.

Firefighters rushed to the rental building at 296 Maple St. to discover flames shooting through the roof.

Relentless forest fires burning across British Columbia may be the new normal, Premier Christy Clark warned as she stood not far from a raging fire that threatened homes in her own riding.

An encampment that had taken over the woods near the end of Bartley Road in West Kelowna for more than a year was recently cleared.

Retired Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot Officer Clarence Sartorius was just 20 years old when he and 11 other people crashed in their Canso 11007 near Tofino. At 20, he was already a veteran of 30 top secret operations in Europe, only to crash into the side of a mountain back home.