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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 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.

It's the Okanagan Forest Task Force app, where backcountry users can report an area that needs attention, and OFTF members will be notified.

B.C. wildfire season is out in full force.

The OFTF reports more than 45,000 pounds of waste material was cleaned up in the one-day effort

"Some of these hazards include downed power lines, unstable structures, dangerous trees, equipment and debris in the area and hazardous materials," O'Rourke said. 

The restrictions, first implemented Saturday, will remain in effect for West Kelowna, while officials are still urging people to stay away from Lake Country and the North Shuswap.

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.

As of Thursday, four of the province's 34 water basins were in Level 5 drought conditions: Fort Nelson, the Bulkley Valley, West Vancouver Island and East Vancouver Island.

The fire has now grown to 40 hectares, fueled by warm temperatures and winds.