Drive BC reports Highway 97 is closed due to a rcokslide near Vaseux Lake, south of Okanagan Falls this morning, Dec. 24, 2019.
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Republished December 24, 2019 - 12:15 PM
Original Publication Date December 24, 2019 - 7:18 AM
South Okanagan residents making their Christmas Eve commute to work in Penticton this morning had to contend with a detour.
Drive BC reported a rock slide had closed Highway 97 between Sundial Road and Vaseux Lake Crescent, about five kilometres south of Okanagan Falls today, Dec. 24. The highway reopened around 11:30 a.m.
The route was closed for several hours after a number of rocks about half the size of a car fell on the roadway.
— This story was updated at 12:13 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019, to say the highway had reopened.
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