News Items tag as: Accident

Witness to fatal pedestrian collision near Hope sought by BC highway patrol
July 31, 2024 - 3:30 PM
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British Columbia Highway Patrol is looking to connect with witnesses of a fatal pedestrian collision on Highway 1.
RCMP investigate hit-and-run between Kelowna semi-truck and building
January 14, 2015 - 3:59 PM

SALMON ARM - Alarms rang at a Salmon Arm service station when the building was struck by a semi-truck Monday night.
Crash on Highway 97 in Lake Country sends two to hospital
December 15, 2014 - 11:20 AM

LAKE COUNTRY – Amazingly, no one was seriously injured in a two vehicle crash on the new section of Highway 97 in Lake Country Monday morning.
Semi carrying massive load of Okanagan Spring beer takes a spill
November 29, 2014 - 10:43 AM

FALKLAND - A semi carrying some 1,500 cases of Okanagan Spring 1516 beer took a spill during Wednesday’s snowstorm.
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$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

Witness to fatal pedestrian collision near Hope sought by BC highway patrol