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A cat rescue is rehabilitating more than a dozen cats and kittens recovered from a derelict site in the Shuswap. It’s an expensive task, one the cat rescue says happens all too often. Sydney Morton reports.

Residents in a North Okanagan Shuswap community are exploring legal action against a local compost facility. The neighbours of Spa Hills Farm say there is a lack of oversight and regulation of the business. Travis Lowe has more.

It was one of the most destructive fires in the region in recent history, the Bush Creek wildfire in the North Shuswap.  The nearly 46,000 blaze took a devastating turn on August 18, 2023, when it swept through with a vengeance– destroying homes in numerous communities. Klaudia Van Emmerik has the latest on the rebuilding...

Areas of the Okanagan have seen many lightning storms occur over the past few days. As our Ben Low-On reports, this recent weather has sparked many new wildfires around the Shuswap region.

The Shuswap boasts more than 600 farms and while it’s impossible to visit them all and support local farmers, a collaboration between Shuswap Tourism and the Central Shuswap Regional District has attempted to make it easier. Sydney Morton takes us along for the ride on the Shuswap Farmstand Tour.

The community of Kelowna marks 30 years since the disappearance of eight year old Mindy Tran, a Shuswap first nation is recovering after last year’s devastating Bush Creek East Wildfire.

Are short term rental restrictions having an effect on Kelowna tourism? Police in Penticton are investigating the swarming assault of a veteran, and buying local produce in the Shuswap just got easier.

The Shuswap River has become a popular waterway for people to float down. But the water is still flowing fast despite it being June and that continues to pose a risk. As Ben Low-On reports, if you do decide to go for a float, be aware that some of the inflatables being used bring an...

Despite some recent success with caribou penning, a practice that involves protecting calves from predators, many herds of mountain caribou in our province still face extirpation. One of those herds is the Columbia North herd, whose habitat is once again under threat from newly proposed clear-cut logging in the North Shuswap. Now, a conservation group...

A fatal collision on Saturday led to the closure of a section of the Trans-Canada Highway in the Shuswap region in B.C. between the communities of Sorrento and Chase. RCMP confirmed to Global News by phone that two people died, but there was no word if others were injured or how many vehicles were involved.

As the Shuswap recovers from last year’s wildfires, people there now have a new problem on their hands. The possibility of landslides. Ben Low-On has more.

Four additional mobile homes were destroyed in Malakwa, after a fire reignited in the debris of the first one, a rainfall warning in the North Shuswap means some parts of the region could be at risk of landslides, and Indigenous culture is celebrated at the Siyaten Festival at the Westbank First Nation.

Derek Favell has been sentenced to life in prison, for the 2016 killing of Ashley Simpson in the Shuswap, a crash on Highway 97 snarls traffic near the Kelowna Airport, and a house fire in West Kelowna destroys what police call a ‘problem home’.

Pride week brings out protestors, a public meeting will be held in the Shuswap to discuss the possibility of landslides following last year’s fires, and soccer-loving kids play a mini World Cup tournament in Rutland.

Destructive wildfires in the Shuswap last summer have created ideal growing conditions for a valuable mushroom. Foragers are now flocking to the woods, but as Kylie Stanton reports, the Skwlax Nation is pushing back on pickers, saying not everyone is respecting the land.

Fire crews in the Shuwap are continuing to investigate what caused a massive fire at a mobile home park earlier this week. As Victoria Femia reports, the fire broke out Monday night, but it wasn’t until the next morning that things took an unexpected turn.

BC’s police watchdog is investigating how RCMP handled reports of a threat, prior to the killing of Tatjana Stefanski near Lumby, a former Kelowna couple says thieves stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of property from their U-Haul storage locker, and North Okanagan residents are concerned after learning there is a high E.Coli count...

An Indigenous community in the North Shuswap is welcoming members home eight months after a fast-moving wildfire tore through the area. As Angela Jung reports, today’s homecoming was a somber celebration of how far they’ve come, and how much more healing there still is to do.

A Shuswap boy is recovering after a terrifying ordeal that not only ended in physical wounds but emotional ones as well. The 10-year-old was attacked by a dog. This attack happening on the heels of a fatal dog attack in Alberta involving another Okanagan boy. And a warning, the story we are about to show...

A Shuswap boy is recovering after he was attacked by a dog that not only left him with physical wounds but emotional ones as well; a Penticton resident is warning others to be aware after falling victim to a new and sophisticated phone scam; the Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission has released new data in...