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Interior Health faces class-action lawsuit over 2009 data breach

The lawsuit alleges the health authority failed to safeguard the personal information of thousands of current and former employees

May 23, 2025 5:10 PM Read more >

Revelstoke Golf Club, greenbelt society to relaunch skiing on the links

Club general manager excited to bring back seasonal practice of grooming four-kilometre cross-country trail for public use in winter

May 23, 2025 3:55 PM Read more >

Crown counsel union files grievance over Okanagan, Kootenay staff shortages

The BC Crown Counsel Association says 20 more Crown prosecutors are needed in the region in order to handle cases in a timely fashion

May 22, 2025 5:00 PM Read more >

Private MacKinlay: The Revelstoke man who died liberating Europe

The 23-year-old left town in 1943 to fight in Italy and the Western Front, and is now being honoured in a commemorative postcard campaign

May 22, 2025 1:08 PM Read more >

Okanagan mayors duke it out as water-saving campaign takes FireSmart focus

The Okanagan Basin Water Board has partnered with FireSmart to launch this year's Make Water Work campaign

May 22, 2025 11:00 AM Read more >

Former Interior Health top doc convicted of sex crime loses licence

Albert Stefanus De Villiers has surrendered his licence with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. and cannot apply to another jurisdiction

May 21, 2025 5:16 PM Read more >

It's bear aware time in Revelstoke! Here's what to know this May

Join Revelstoke Bear Aware this Saturday for games, crafts, prizes, conservation officer talks and bear spray demos

May 21, 2025 2:20 PM Read more >

'I'm not a fugitive': Alberta woman on the lam in B.C. says she didn't plan escape

Mackenzie Dawn Hardy said that she and her boyfriend have been staying in hotels and eating fast food across B.C. since she was released from prison on April 25

May 21, 2025 11:19 AM Read more >

Revelstoke fire crews douse bathroom blaze, rescue driver from rollover

May 17 made for a busy Saturday as local firefighters answered a public washroom fire, barbecue smokeout and semi rollover

May 21, 2025 5:00 AM Read more >

B.C. timber agency halts new logging on caribou land near Revelstoke

BC Timber Sales told Wildsight by email it will only proceed with projects near completion, applying to tens of thousands of forest hectares

May 20, 2025 11:50 AM Read more >