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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.

A pedestrian was killed in a two-car crash over the weekend and police are still investigating.

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.

Vernon RCMP are searching for a stolen car that is connected to some recent criminal activity.

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.

The provincial government plans to make a few intersections on Highway 97 in Peachland safer this summer.

Blue skies and hot weather are here and the Kelowna RCMP traffic cops are continuing to crackdown on drivers who decide to go for a dangerous summer drive.

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.

As e-bike and e-dirt bikes grow in popularity, Kelowna RCMP said it is focusing on the rapid rise of dangerous riding.

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.

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.

Kelowna RCMP officers were handing out traffic violation tickets left and right during an enforcement blitz Tuesday.

The Adra Tunnel is open to the public after years of work restoring the historic piece of the Kettle Valley Rail Trail.

Police have released a photo of an unidentified motorized scooter rider who was involved in a crash that sent another motorized scooter rider to hospital.

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.

Kelowna RCMP went on an enforcement campaign earlier this week and handed out dozens of tickets for speeding in school zones.

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.

Police are searching for witnesses to a collision just north of Vernon that left a cyclist with serious injuries.

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.

Highway 3A north of Keremeos will be closed for at least another few days as crews continue to deal with a rockslide Tuesday.

Summerland RCMP officers were busy this past weekend catching speeding drivers.

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 crash between two motorized kick scooter riders in Kelowna on the weekend sent one to hospital.

Vernon North Okanagan RCMP are hoping someone can identify the suspect in a bus assault.

Westside Road was reopened to single-lane traffic over the weekend but it is closed again.

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.

A man is in custody after making a dangerous escape attempt when police confronted him in a stolen pickup truck in Vernon.

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle in Merritt this morning.

A landslide is blocking Westside Road east of West Kelowna.

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 vehicle fire and break and enter in Vernon this morning could be connected.

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 stolen pickup truck was spotted at the scene of a crime in Vernon, and police later found it engulfed in flames.

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.

A globe-trotting jazz singer helped elevate the local music scene in Kelowna, and now the community is rallying behind her to give her financial support after a near-death experience.

A former NHL hockey player who made millions of dollars during his career on the ice is being sued by the City of Vernon over unpaid parking tickets.

BC Highway Patrol set up a one-day campaign to crackdown on drivers who don’t safely pass tow truck drivers, emergency personnel, and other official vehicles working on the road near Keremeos.

A Kamloops woman was awarded nearly $1.2 million in a court judgement regarding two car crashes more than six years ago.

A man died and two other people were injured in a head-on collision on the Trans-Canada near Ashcroft west of Kamloops.

A Vernon musician has been charged in relation to a fatal pedestrian collision which killed a much-loved Splatsin First Nation elder on Canada Day 2023.

A provincial government department has been fined $783,000 by WorkSafeBC for doing a sloppy job at traffic control.

A Vernon man is on a mission to better connect the Okanagan’s public transit system, and the city council just voted to support him.

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A Kelowna man found equally to blame for a car crash on Highway 97 two years ago, has successfully appealed the decision after he recorded a conversation he had right after the crash.

The William Bennett Bridge in Kelowna has reopened after it was closed for more than 10 hours today for a police incident.

Police arrested a man in Kelowna after he caused a crash and threw debris out his window onto the road.

Sixty-three-year-old Naramata resident Kelly Hohmann didn't know what to think when he was pulled over by the RCMP in Penticton last November.

Heads up drivers, a so-called freedom convoy of trucks is being organized for later this month in the Thompson-Okanagan region.

A foul-mouthed North Okanagan senior described as "vulgar" and "blatantly misogynist" has been found guilty following a road rage incident where he brandished a hammer.

A Kelowna orchard has been fined $7,900 for not having a seatbelt on a tractor.

A BC delivery driver, with just seconds to respond, tapped his phone to accept a job while stopped at a traffic light. In those seconds he was caught for distracted driving, and the law left him no leeway.

A Kelowna contractor has been fined $44,000 after flaggers got too close to vehicles.

Heads up, travellers, some snow is coming down on the mountain pass highways in the Thompson and Okanagan regions but it should be clear by Sunday.

One person is dead in a two-vehicle crash Thursday on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Kamloops.

A pickup truck driver died after colliding with a snow plow on Highway 97C this morning.

A serious collision on the Okanagan Connector is causing significant delays.

Most British Columbians are in favour of lower speed limits in residential areas, and using photo radar to catch dangerous drivers.