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Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth identified 51 year old Ridge Meadows RCMP Constable Rick O'Brien as the officer killed in the line of duty. He was conducting a search warrant in Coquitlam as par...

West Kelowna Fire Chief Jason Brolund spoke to delegates at the United Nations about the first days of the McDougall Creek wildfire. He said it was 36 hours that felt like 100 days as gusting winds mo...

Once again, the BC Wildfire Service is mourning the deaths of colleagues and co-workers. Four sub-contractor firefighters died in a car accident early Tuesday morning on Highway 1, between Kamloops an...

The District of Peachland except for the downtown beach area, continues under an evacuation alert due to the Glen Lake wildfire being about 6 km away. Yesterday, helicopters bucketed the northeast sid...

Bucketing operations were the main plan of attack at the Glen Lake wildfire west of Peachland yesterday. On the ground, BC Wildfire crews are being assisted by firefighters from Peachland. Heavy equip...

BC Wildfire says a blaze that flared up on Saturday west of Peachland was human-caused, but they weren't specific. Last night, the Glen Lake fire had grown to 450 hectares and smoke was visible from t...

A big drop yesterday in the number of properties on evacuation order for the McDougall Creek wildfire. Including the recent rescindments and a better count of the secondary and vacant suites at Lake O...

Fire danger will remain 'high to extreme' in many parts of the province through the fall as dry conditions persist. Neal McLoughlin with the Provincial Wildfire Coordination Centre in Kelowna says for...

Coffee with a Cop returns to Kelowna every Thursday for the rest of the month. This is your chance if you want to have a chat and you don't have to buy a coffee if you don't want. Tomorrow it's at Mil...

As Kelowna fire crews extinguished a small brush fire near Spall and Mill Creek early Sunday morning, they discovered a man's body. RCMP are working with the Coroners Service to determine the man's id...