Everyday Chris Ens pauses during his cycle to work in Kamloops to take a few photos of the graffiti painted on the CP railcars that rumble through the city and posts them on his Instagram page The Graffiti Express.
If you ask any mountain biker in Canada about about Kamloops, they'll probably tell you it's one of the premier riding destinations in BC. If you ask them about money, they may not want to admit how much they spend on the sport.
All aboard! The historic Kettle Valley Steam Railway in Summerland has delighted train enthusiasts and history buffs from near and far for three decades.
A South Okanagan man who was rear-ended four years ago has had to resort to taking legal action against ICBC after it refused to accept that the crash had caused him significant cognitive issues and he'd had to largely give up work.
A BC man who was convicted for not having insurance on his one-wheel electric skateboard, even though he can't get it insured, has won a retrial after it emerged that the judicial justice who issued him the fine had been hit by skateboards and was biased.
Here at iNFOnews.ca we try to answer the questions that are important to you. Stuck in busier-then-normal traffic like most Kamloops drivers this summer, one reader asked why it seems road construction is moving slowly.
Buddy Rhodes' body was found off to the side of the Coquihalla Highway almost one year ago.
People in both vehicles escaped with minor injuries after a semi-truck collided with an SUV in a highway snowshed near Revelstoke.
Last night's roadside wildfire in Peachland was sparked by a highway motorhome crash.
Over on iN Discussion, readers are going off about some recent traffic news involving excessive speed.
A North Vancouver man has some explaining to do after getting caught going 130 km/h in a 80 zone in his mom's Lamborghini on Highway 3 near Princeton earlier this summer.
Julia Beatrice Belmonte was just 23 years old when she got a job working for the Kettle Valley Steam Railway in Summerland.
Two motorcycle crashes on the weekend claimed the lives of both riders, one on Barnharvale Road in Kamloops and the other on Highway 5.
A driver from Edmonton behind the wheel of an eight-seat van with nine occupants was pulled over last week on the Okanagan Connector near Merritt doing 136 km/h in a 100 zone.
Running red lights, surprise entries onto roadways and tearing up parks and paths. Those are just a few of the behaviours West Kelowna RCMP are trying to curb as they track unruly electric dirt bike riders this summer.
The driver of an SUV was arrested Wednesday night after driving erratically in downtown Kelowna.
A driver doing 218 km/h in a 70 zone on Highway 97 near Kelowna, who was flashing his headlights to get slower driver to pull over and out of his way, was caught because one of those vehicles he passed was a cop car.
Kamloops resident Ida Beni has been driving to work in a car that smells like an apricot this week, but she doesn’t mind.
The price of anything in BC feels like highway robbery lately, but buying a car might hurt the most.
It’s summer and people are out riding their bikes, so thieves in Kelowna are taking advantage.
A South Okanagan woman has been charged with impaired driving following a fatal car crash last summer.
BC Highway Patrol handed out hundreds of tickets and busted drivers on drugs at the recent Shambhala Music Festival in the Kootenays.
A pair of similar car crashes on the Trans-Canada have left two drivers in B.C. on the hook for fines and damages since neither had insurance.
BC Highway Patrol officers clocked a 16-year-old from Abbotsford doing excessive speeds on the Trans-Canada and the teen eventually crashed into a dump truck at an off ramp.
Police arrested a semi-truck driver after a fatal collision with a motorcycle north of Quesnel very early this morning.
Next time you’re out and about in the Okanagan in the summertime keep your eyes peeled for some fancy rides and hot rods, you’re bound to see a few.
A leisurely late evening bike ride on a beautiful summer night turned into a violent nightmare for a Penticton couple.
Two BC Highway Patrol officers were nearly struck by a speeding Kelowna man in a BMW on Highway 97 south of 100 Mile House. Police say he was reading a text message on his cellphone at the time.
A BC woman left in chronic pain following a car crash has had to resort to taking ICBC to a Tribunal to get the provincially-owned insurance company to cover $4,700 of chiropractic and massage therapy bills.
The finish line is a place for triumph and celebration after a long-distance cycling race, but it was a confusing experience after this year's Okanagan Granfondo.
One of the two cyclists who survived a tragic collision at the Okanagan Granfondo is facing months of recovery from her numerous injuries.
BC Highway Patrol caught one driver doing nearly twice the speed limit on the Trans-Canada Highway in Yoho National Park during a campaign to get people to slow down.
Police are looking for witnesses and dashcam footage of a fatal accident involving three vehicles in a Fraser Canyon collision on Sunday.
One cyclist died and two others were injured in a collision with a vehicle during an Okanagan race involving hundreds of bike riders Sunday.
Salmon Arm RCMP got a new truck and it's all electric.
A Vernon man died after a crash on Highway 97 between Vernon and Kamloops last night.
Officers with the BC Highway Patrol took a Ferrari off the road after it more than doubled the speed limit.
Kelowna RCMP and Central Okanagan Public Schools have concerns about people riding e-bikes and e-scooters dangerously and whether they actually understand the rules.
A 16-year-old decided to take his parents’ minivan for a drive in Lake Country and got hit with some hefty penalties when he was caught by RCMP.
It was a week before Christmas 2020 when South Okanagan resident Todd Gillard was hit head-on by an oncoming vehicle while driving in Penticton.
A Kamloops city councillor has pitched an idea to reduce the speed limit on residential streets in the city.
RCMP caught a wanted man after pulling him over in downtown Kelowna on Monday for being drunk while riding an electric scooter.
A man walked himself into custody last week after parking a stolen truck outside of the Kelowna RCMP detachment.
A vehicle fire forced Kamloops firefighters out of their regular station early Tuesday night.
A 22-year-old Surrey man was killed in a hit-and-run on Highway 97 near Oliver on Sunday.
A 50-year-old BC man, caught driving his Cadillac erratically in Vernon, won't go to jail after two dozen bags of fentanyl and carfentanyl were found in his vehicle.
A Montreal gangster is accused of transporting women across provincial boundaries with his BMW, and the province wants to seize it.
Kamloops company We Are One has been building bicycle wheels for nearly a decade. This week it was sold to an American company.
Someone stole a delivery van in Kamloops and police deployed a spike belt on the highway to stop them.
An Okanagan construction company has been fined $114,000 after a propane explosion seriously injured a worker.
Riders and hikers are exploring a newly constructed multi-use pathway running from Peachland below Highway 97 to a park in West Kelowna.
RCMP have a suspected car thief in custody after an attempted traffic stop in the Shuswap ended with a person in custody in the North Okanagan.
A BC RCMP officer has been charged after getting into a car crash last year in the Boundary region.
DriveBC is getting ready to transition to a new website later this month. Drivers around B.C., including in Thompson-Okanagan region, could be getting a better platform to find out about what’s happening on the roads.
Kamloops’s only steam locomotive was rolled outside of its shop at the heritage railway station this week for the first time in almost six years for testing and maintenance work.
When you see someone who's been pulled over by the cops the right thing to do is slow down, rubber neck and speculate about what kind of ticket they’re about to get of course.
A woman was injured in a hit-and-run in Kamloops last week and RCMP are asking for the public's help to find the driver.
After more than 30 years in Canada, a Vernon man who has been jailed multiple times for drunk driving will be kicked out of the country after he finishes his latest stint in prison.
A Kamloops woman who bought a beat-up 25-year-old car on Facebook Marketplace has managed to get her money back after she proved the owner had misrepresented its condition.
The sister of man killed in a fatal car crash outside Salmon Arm 18 months ago said her family bears no ill will against the other driver.
The dream of a Thompson-Okanagan passenger train is still alive for a UBC Okanagan professor.
The Adra Tunnel is open to the public after years of work restoring the historic piece of the Kettle Valley Rail Trail.
A BC Tribunal has ruled an ICBC decision was "unreasonable" after the insurer cut off the driver's income replacement benefits, saying she should return to work.
BC Highway Patrol is going to make a push to keep roads safe this Victoria Day long weekend.
A Trans-Canada Highway bridge blockade by Splatsin First Nation earlier this week has been lifted after negotiations to honour the agreement to include Indigenous workers.
A weekend crash in Kamloops reduced highway traffic to a single lane for several hours after a police vehicle toppled a civilian's.
Splatsin First Nation said broken promises to include Indigenous workers in the project to rebuild the bridge in Sicamous are why the bridge has been blockaded Monday.
Tourists aren’t going to be the only thing adding to traffic congestion this summer as the provincial government is planning 630 kilometres of highway and road upgrades in the Southern Interior.
Vernon RCMP are looking into a fatal motorcycle crash that happened Thursday.
Every year spectators gather at Kelowna’s Knox Mountain to see drivers line-up to tackle its hairpin turns at break-neck speeds. For 60 years, drivers have been racing up that hill and a local historian recently republished some film footage of the race showcasing its iconic history.
A man driving on Vancouver Island had his car impounded after speeding to test some new modifications to his car.
Kamloops RCMP are looking for two robbers who can’t drive a stick shift.
A man from Nanaimo faces a driving suspension, a speeding ticket and allegations of impaired driving for passing an unmarked police vehicle going 120 kilometres an hour over the posted limit.
Drivers in B.C. who drive less are going to be eligible for a new insurance discount.
There was a collision between two semi trucks with trailers on the Coquihalla Highway near Merritt yesterday.
Central Okanagan Search and Rescue documented the search effort at the Westside Road landslide that ended with the recovery of a missing person's body.
The Armstrong Spallumcheen Fire Department’s ladder truck served the area faithfully for 30 years, and now it’s going to help a community in Guatemala.
RCMP have reopened the Overlanders Bridge in Kamloops to vehicles and pedestrians after an hour long closure due to a gun report.
Enderby's Starlight Drive-in theatre is now the last remaining standalone drive-in cinema in the province.
The debate about which city in the Southern Interior has the worst drivers probably goes back to when the car was invented and most people probably say Kelowna.
Highway traffic is moving again after a washout near Little Shuswap Lake flowed across the Trans-Canada and blocked the route early Tuesday morning.
The plan for Kalamoir Regional Park in West Kelowna was going to have a section that would help connect parts of the ambitious bicycle route from Sicamous to Osoyoos, but the advocates’ dreams were dashed.
A Kelowna electrician, rear-ended while in a traffic jam on the Bennett Bridge, has been awarded $360,000 after the minor fender bender left her in chronic pain.
Electric scooters are finally allowed in Kamloops, but that doesn't mean they'll be taking the streets by storm this spring.
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle in Merritt this morning.
The gas prices you’re seeing in Kamloops and the Okanagan aren’t an April Fool’s Day prank.
If you have ever wondered why downtown Kelowna has so many gravel shoulders and thought it was because the city is too cheap or lazy to pave them you’d be wrong. Those gravel shoulders are part of the drainage system, a relic from before this was the fastest growing city in the country.
A shopper at the Costco in Kelowna was recorded scratching — or attempting to scratch — a Tesla.
Kelowna RCMP say they have cracked down on dangerous driving this year by giving out hundreds of tickets.
While Canadians have recently become focussed on sourcing local products and supporting local businesses in the wake of American President Donald Trump’s trade war, Cameron Bissonnette has been doing that for decades.
An Alberta man was acting in self defence in a road rage incident in the Kootenays, but he failed to act reasonably when he punched the other driver in the face, causing injuries, a judge ruled.
Town of Osoyoos council has voted in favour of moving forward with a program that will allow slow-speed, electric vehicles on streets and most highways in and around the tourist community.
Kelowna’s long-awaited Tesla dealership and service centre is ready for customers despite the controversy surrounding the car company's CEO Elon Musk and the fact that the company’s stock has taken a 30 per cent nosedive in the last month.
Kamloops couple Victoria and Tony Ryan have been travelling to destinations in the United States for decades, either by car down the Oregon coast or flying to American cruise ports, but in response to Donald Trump’s trade war, they won’t be going again and cancelled a spring trip to Washington state.
Millions of dollars are spent plowing hundreds of kilometres of roads in Kelowna and Kamloops in the winter, so a mild winter can mean big savings.
A suspect was arrested in Kamloops this morning with a cab stolen in Hope.
A pedestrian was hit and killed by a driver in Lake Country Sunday morning.
A woman drove her pickup truck into a medical clinic in Salmon Arm Thursday injuring one person.
A Kelowna woman couldn't believe it when she found out she won more than $600,000 playing the lottery.
