The city said once water moves into spillways, residents will start seeing higher and faster volumes of water moving through the area.

Two power outages in two days — electricity lost for about 16 hours. That’s what residents of a small Okanagan community have had to put up with. There are just over 50 homes in the Idabel Lake sub-division south-east of Kelowna. Many of the residents anticipated the power outages, after finding out the nearby forest...

After losing electricity for about 16 hours in two outages over two days, residents of the 50 home Idabel lake sub-division south-east of Kelowna are demanding action. The nearby forest was harvested over the winter, with the loggers leaving a small buffer strip of trees right next to power lines. The outages were caused when...