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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.

About 60 volunteers with the Okanagan Forest Task Force cleaned up tons of garbage from crown land along Beaver Lake Road on Sunday.

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The Okanagan Forest Task Force was in clean-up mode over the weekend.

"If we have harsher penalties, bigger fines, it might deter a little more people," said Kane Blake with the Okanagan Forest Task Force.

Okanagan Forest Task Force found an abandoned camp roughly three kilometres up Beaver Lake Road, near Kelowna.

A member of the Okanagan Forest Task Force found the white van, still running, along with the stolen ATM, during a check for illegal dump sites on Tuesday night.

"I was absolutely appalled and disgusted, heartbroken. The pile had broken glass in it, boards with nails sticking out."

Local non-profits teamed up with volunteers for the annual Peachland Watershed cleanup on Saturday.

The cleanup was one of the ways the Okanagan Forest Task Force is asking the public to stop illegally dumping along backroads in the Central Okanagan.

Fuel mitigation, among other measures, is what West Kelowna Fire Chief's Jason Brolund has been advocating for years.

The Okanagan Forest Task Force (OFTF) has cleaned up two sites since the group started its effort at the end of August and a third cleanup effort is planned for Nov. 5, according to OFTF spokesperson Kane Blake.

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.