Lake Country Calendar

04/06/2024

Echo is safe and secure!!!!!

4/6 8:00pm - we have a possible sighting and have volunteers in the area and working hard to get him home.
Again - please do not try to catch or call Echo. Text or call us and we will get our team in place.

Please share and check cameras April 4, overnight, today!
Echo is on trial and went missing. Also a potential sighting at Lakehill Way Lake country
We need that community to keep an eye out for him. He is scared and will not come to anyone so do NOT call or try to catch! Call or text us!

08/18/2023

A self-described “activist” from Quebec who pleaded guilty to sending Donald Trump a poison-laced letter at the height of the former president’s ill-fated 2020 re-election effort has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison.

Pascale Ferrier called herself an activist, not a terrorist

08/17/2023

The evacuation alert area for the McDougall Creek Wildfire Central has expanded to include an additional 924 properties as a result of the rapidly expanding ‘out of control’ fire. Those under evacuation alert should be prepared to evacuate at a moment’s notice. More than 6,500 properties are now under evacuation alert.

Residents from the 68 properties must leave immediately

08/17/2023

The RDCO has upgraded 68 properties from an evacuation alert to an evacuation order, meaning the residents must leave their property immediately.

Residents from the 68 properties must leave immediately

08/17/2023

Two more people accused of running a massive fentanyl and methamphetamine lab in Lumby were sentenced in Kelowna court on Monday, bringing the total number of people sentenced in connection to the lab up to six.

Trent Fussi and Robyn Bryson are among six people to be sentenced after the lab was busted in 2018

08/17/2023

The Giant’s Head Mountain Park wildfire started on Aug. 11, 1996, around 4 p.m. in the mountain park. The fire reached a size of more than 60 hectares. The fire was around 275 metres up the side of the mountain.

Giants Head Mountain Park fire left charred remnants in its wake

08/17/2023

The BC Housing Ministry has released an independent review of three supportive housing sites in Maple Ridge, and recommendations to improve services and safety of the residents.

Report makes recommendations about staff training, security, medical attention

08/17/2023

“People have not forgotten. For those who weren’t living here then, it is hard to explain,” Zimmermann said of those days in August 2003 when the city was threatened by a wildfire initially sparked by lightning in Okanagan Mountain Park.

A look back on Fire Storm 2003

08/17/2023

The tremor, which occurred at 5:14 a.m. on Aug. 15, was located 70 kilometres south of Daajing Giids and 222 kilometres southwest of Prince Rupert. Earthquakes Canada noted its depth at 22.4 kilometres on its website.

Epicentre located 70 kilometres south of Daajing Giids, 222 kilometres southwest of Prince Rupert

08/17/2023

As Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas remarked, “ It is an event that is etched in the minds of all those who experienced it in 2003.”

The Okanagan Mountain Park wildfire started Aug. 16, 2003, with a lightning strike

08/16/2023

The N.W.T government, in its latest fire update, stated the blaze had advanced four kilometres closer overnight to Yellowknife, which is home to 20,000 people.

Wildfires menacing the capital of the Northwest Territories crept closer Wednesday, moving within 16 kilometres of Yellowknife.

08/16/2023

Lake Country has the worst air quality currently in the Central Okanagan.

Lake Country has the worst air quality in the region