News Items tag as: Monte Lake news

Mudslide hampers Highway 97 traffic near Monte Lake
June 28, 2022 - 5:07 PM
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A mudslide along Highway 97 is reducing traffic to a single lane between Monte Lake and Falkland.
Boater rescues truck driver who crashed into Monte Lake on Highway 97
June 28, 2022 - 12:03 PM

RCMP are releasing more details after a commercial transport truck plunged into Monte Lake on Highway 97 between Vernon and Kamloops yesterday.
Rock collectors captivated by crystal formations near Monte Lake
November 28, 2021 - 12:00 PM

This story was originally published March 27, 2021.
28 homes, one commercial structure destroyed in Monte Lake area due to wildfire
August 14, 2021 - 5:01 PM

The Thompson Nicola Regional District has confirmed 28 homes and one commercial structure have been destroyed in the Monte Lake area due to wildfire.
B.C. officials say crews did all they could to protect Monte Lake from wildfire
August 10, 2021 - 4:00 PM

B.C. Wildfire Service gave Monte Lake residents plenty of time to prepare their evacuation in front of the White Rock Lake wildfire, provincial officials said during a news conference today, Aug. 10.
Fire guards challenged by growth at White Rock Lake wildfire near Westwold
July 23, 2021 - 10:16 AM

Air tankers and helicopters doused hotspots on the White Rock Lake wildfire yesterday as the blaze pushed against guard lines.
The Monte Lake wildfire last year wasn’t caused by a cigarette butt
April 10, 2018 - 8:00 PM

NORTH OKANAGAN - Fire investigators have their suspicions about how a large wildfire started in the community of Monte Lake last summer — and it doesn’t involve a cigarette butt.
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B.C. union loses fight over lumber mill's new fingerprint time clock
A B.C. union has lost a fight against a lumber mill that started using fingerprint scans as a way for workers to clock in and out. Canfor's Plateau Sawmill in Vanderhoof started using the fingerprint technology in June 2022 as part of a

New brew pub set to expand Kelowna's brewery district
An application for a liquor manufacturing licence by Buffalo Rouge Brewing Co. could expand Kelowna’s North End brewery district further east. The brewery district is centred around Richter Street and Vaughn Avenue but reaches as far

Ontario cannabis shop sales data circulating, provincial pot regulators investigate
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Here’s what it costs to house the homeless
The City of Kelowna can’t say, or won’t say, how much it spends each year dealing with homelessness within city boundaries. After repeated efforts to get those figures, the City told iNFOnews.ca in an email, that it will have to

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News Items tag as: Monte Lake news

Mudslide hampers Highway 97 traffic near Monte Lake

Boater rescues truck driver who crashed into Monte Lake on Highway 97

Rock collectors captivated by crystal formations near Monte Lake

28 homes, one commercial structure destroyed in Monte Lake area due to wildfire

B.C. officials say crews did all they could to protect Monte Lake from wildfire

Fire guards challenged by growth at White Rock Lake wildfire near Westwold

The Monte Lake wildfire last year wasn’t caused by a cigarette butt

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