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Live election coverage

The polls will close across the Okanagan and around B.C. at 8 p.m. tonight as residents vote to elect new city councils, boards of education and...

Shoots moose, left it to die

A Surrey man has been given a $10,000 penalty after he shot a moose and left it to suffer for 36 hours before it died in Beaverdell. Marius Vasile,...

CRA privacy breach

UPDATE: 1:15 p.m. A representative from the Canada Revenue Agency has picked up a confidential package that was mistakenly placed inside...

Furious over festival fiasco

UPDATE: 7:15 p.m. The owner of CannaFest said he wasn’t informed about a woman being bit by a dog on festival grounds and wants to extend an...

Shootout on Coronation Ave

A Saturday night shooting on Coronation Avenue in Kelowna has left behind numerous bullet holes and a shattered glass door. RCMP police vehicles were...

Prized possession stomped

Laurie Fraser adores her bright blue Mini Cooper and was devastated to find it vandalized outside her Lake Country home. She came out Saturday morning...

'Poop' covers more cars

Brett Yates figured a bird had just pooped on his vehicle — until he read about a woman’s car being covered in feces, apparently from a...

Driver fakes insurance call

A Kelowna man came out to find his pickup had been damaged and the culprit drove off after allegedly pretending to call an insurance company. Will...

Nurse shot dead

UPDATE: 3 p.m. A 47-year-old man who died after being found with gunshot wounds has been identified. Police were called to the 18200 block of 67A...

Scene of gunfire

UPDATE: 1 p.m. Just one officer remains at a home where a shot was fired on Sutherland Avenue Monday evening. The incident occurred about 8:30 when...

Police: No risk to public

UPDATE: 7:30 p.m. Police officers rushed to a Kelowna park after they were notified that someone had what appeared to be a large gun. General duty...

Facility will 'hurt, harm'

Petition organizers opposing a “wet” supportive housing facility in Rutland say they will exceed the 13,000 signatures they were hoping to...

Red beaches safe: city

UPDATE: 11:20 a.m. The City of Kelowna says orange-tinged beaches along Okanagan Lake are due to a natural process and have been deemed safe. An...

Red beach investigated

UPDATE: 2:15 p.m. Water treatment staff are investigating the mystery at Cedar Creek Beach, where rocks have turned a rusty orange colour and there is...

Cab no-show, life at risk

A terminally ill man was stuck in his wheelchair and without medication for more than four hours after a Kelowna taxi company left him stranded. Donna...

Mom shocked at City Park

A Kelowna mother is concerned about the safety of children at Kelowna's City Park after she claims a man was fondling himself while staring at her...

$1,500 fine in fatal crash

UPDATE: 4:50 a.m. The man who crashed into a 21-year-old UBC Okanagan student on the Coquihalla Highway in 2017, killing her, pleaded guilty to...

Sudden death outside home

A man died suddenly outside a Kelowna home Sunday afternoon. Officers and paramedics responded to a residence on the 2100 block of Scenic Road just...

Ash falls over Okanagan

Residents across the Okanagan are reporting ash falling on their homes and vehicles Tuesday afternoon, and it appears to be coming from the south of...

Water came like a 'river'

Over a dozen Lake Country residents have been flooded with muddy water Thursday afternoon after a water main broke, sending a rush of water towards...

Man dies on street

UPDATE 12:10 p.m. Castanet News has spoken to a woman who says she had to be escorted past the body of an elderly man who appears to have died on the...

Plane search homes in

UPDATE: 11:15 a.m. More search and rescue crews will be flying over an area north of Kamloops in search of a missing plane on Monday. A total of four...

Multiple homes robbed

UPDATE: 3:40 p.m. A suspect wanted Canada-wide was nabbed in West Kelowna, Monday. Police were called to a home on the 2800 block of Scharf Road for a...

A chilly lake recovery

Jeff Bryde has been using his sailboat for 30 years and dreamed of cruising on Okanagan Lake during his retirement. But, his dreams were crushed after...

Slams into parked vehicles

A driver drove into two parked vehicles on Sunset Drive Sunday afternoon. Emergency responders were at the scene of the crash at 1088 Sunset Drive at...

'Fire bags of death'

A group of men recently saw something burning in the sky above Wood Lake and they were shocked by what they discovered. Shawn Browne and his friends...

'A split-second glimpse'

It was like finding a needle in a haystack, says the paramedic who spotted a missing plane from a helicopter. The BC Ambulance Service critical care...

Hunter fell 30 ft

UPDATE: 7:20 p.m. A hunter sustained serious head injuries after falling 30 feet from a cliff in the Fintry area. West Kelowna and North Westside...

Coquihalla chaos on camera

Rainy conditions caused chaos on the Coquihalla Highway Sunday night, north of Hope. One motorist saw a line of vehicles backed up just outside Hope...

Don't be shaken by rattlers

Two Okanagan Valley residents were rattled by a slithering creature on Wednesday, but biologists say they should consider themselves lucky to have...

Bank robber gets away

UPDATE: 4:55 p.m. Police officers are canvasing around Orchard Plaza after the RBC branch was robbed this afternoon. A lone male robbed the bank just...

Fire destroys home

UPDATE: 6 a.m. Investigators will return to the scene of Wednesday's evening's house fire on the Westbank First Nation today. West Kelowna...

'We have to find him'

The mother of a missing 20-year-old man said she won’t stop searching until her son is found. Ryan Shtuka was last seen leaving a house party on...

Stop-light invasion

Two bizarre incidents have occurred just a day apart from each other, where a stranger runs up to a vehicle at a traffic light and tries to enter the...

Death at mobile home fire

UPDATE: 3:27 p.m. Neighbours living at Lake City Homes Estates said the person who died in an early morning fire was a man living at the mobile home....

Vile liquid falls from sky

A Lumby resident woke up to a stinky, disgusting brown mess all over his vehicle on Monday morning. Josh Patton has lived at his home off Hurt Road...

Trespasses, wrecks wetland

The driver of a Ford Explorer faces possible penalties after getting stuck in a sensitive Kelowna wetland. The owners were at their rural Rifle Road...

'We were going to die'

Two young Kelowna men are lucky to be alive after fighting for their lives when they got lost and had to spend the night on Boulder Mountain in...

Arsonist strikes again?

UPDATE 11:20 a.m. RCMP tell Castanet they are now investigating after a motorist discovered a bottle of engine oil and oil-soaked paper towels under...

Big clue in missing plane

The search for a missing single-engine aircraft and the couple on board continues with new information about the plane possibly being in the North...
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