News Items tag as: Rock Creek fire

Kelowna police detain door-to-door canvasser claiming to be collecting money for Rock Creek fire victims
September 15, 2015 - 4:20 PM

KELOWNA - Police detained a man who had been canvassing Kelowna neighbourhoods looking for cash he says would go to victims of the Rock Creek fire.
Commemorative shirts to remember 2015 wildfire season in South Okanagan
September 15, 2015 - 2:47 PM

PENTICTON - A new fundraising effort will help remember the 2015 wildfire season in the South Okanagan and Rock Creek areas while raising money for local firefighters.
Small North Okanagan town bands together for Rock Creek fire victims
August 24, 2015 - 10:35 AM

GRINDROD - A small community in the North Okanagan area is rallying together for victims of the Rock Creek wildfire.
Progress on Rock Creek wildfire, but wind could challenge firefighters
August 21, 2015 - 8:30 AM

ROCK CREEK - Firefighters have made progress containing the Rock Creek fire east of Osoyoos, but changing weather could be their biggest foe.
Slow but steady progress corralling the Rock Creek wildfire
August 20, 2015 - 9:49 AM

ROCK CREEK - Progress is being made on the huge wildfire which has destroyed 30 homes and 15 other buildings in the Boundary region.
No sign of rumoured video showing tossed cigarette starting B.C. wildfire
August 18, 2015 - 12:59 PM

ROCK CREEK - Days after a wildfire destroyed 30 homes in southeast British Columbia, rumoured video of a tossed cigarette that sparked the blaze hasn't been found.
Wildfire in Boundary and South Okanagan destroys 30 homes, forces hundreds to evacuate
August 17, 2015 - 9:30 AM

OLIVER, B.C. - Residents in southeastern British Columbia are regrouping from an immense and fast-spreading wildfire that has so far wiped out 30 homes and forced hundreds to flee with little more than the clothes on their backs.
Rock Creek wildfire destroys 29 homes
August 16, 2015 - 11:54 AM

ROCK CREEK, B.C. - Twenty-nine homes have been confirmed lost in an immense wildfire in British Columbia's Boundary region, several days after the blaze sparked and forced hundreds from their homes.
B.C. Wildfire reporting progress on Oliver wildfires
August 16, 2015 - 9:38 AM

OLIVER, B.C. – The wildfires burning in the heart of the Okanagan’s wine country continue to threaten prized vineyards and orchards with scores of residents still out of their homes, but B.C. Wildfire says there has been significant progress in the fight against the blazes.
Rock Creek wildfire forces evacuations, burns buildings
August 14, 2015 - 4:30 PM

ROCK CREEK, B.C. - When Jackie Neugebaur saw towering flames leap from the hills onto a highway next to her campground in British Columbia's Boundary region, she knew she had to run.
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LETTER: Tara Armstrong’s disparaging rhetoric has no place in leadership
OPINION Dear Editor, Tara Armstrong’s decision to leave the BC Conservative Party is her own, but her continued use of derogatory language to attack her perceived opponents — especially the majority

iN VIDEO: After years of winter damage, optimistic outlook for peach crop at Vernon orchard
Peach trees at Davison Orchards in Vernon are looking healthy without any bud damage coming out of the winter months after suffering major cold weather damage for three years in a row. The orchard grows several varietals of apples, pears an

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

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

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