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Hundreds of firefighters continue to work on the Bald Range Wildfire near Summerland on Saturday, which is now mapped at 24,820 hectares. According to the latest from BCWS on Saturday morning, fire behaviour and activity have been dampened over the last several days due to the heavy smoke. But crew...

A Kamloops-area man who avoided jail in June following a drunken home invasion and assault is behind bars after allegedly breaching his house arrest barely a month into the sentence. Isaac Willard, 33, was arrested after police received no response while checking his curfew on July 23. He was senten...

The District of Summerland is asking residents with a fridge or freezer damaged as a result of the Bald Range Wildfire to hold on to it just a little longer. Starting Tuesday, Aug. 25, until Saturday, Aug. 29, locals can take their appliance to recycle at the gravel parking lot at the Dale Meadows ...

More homes have been placed on an evacuation order south of the Pear Lake wildfire Saturday morning. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District issued the new order for two more properties along Highway 99, west of the junction with Hwy 97, along with any other properties in the attached map. That order...

Some Conservative strategists say there is little to take away from U.S. Vice President JD Vance's apparent mockery of Leader Pierre Poilievre in a fundraising speech this week. But Tim Powers, Summa Strategies chair and a former Conservative adviser, says Poilievre is being undermined, at least a l...