An 82-year-old woman has died after being struck by a vehicle Monday morning in West Kelowna.
The West Kelowna R-C-M-P say the woman was walking in a parking lot when she was struck by a pickup truck just after 11 a-m.
Mounties say the driver remained on scene and is co-operating with police.
Police say victim services workers are available for witnesses that have been affected by what they saw.
Earthquakes Canada reports a 4.8 magnitude quake struck just before 11 p.m. PST. There are no reports of damage. No tsunami is expected.
Avalanche Canada says a group of five snowboarders and one skier were caught in the slide Thursday in an area known as Terminator 2.5 outside of a ski area boundary near the town of Golden. Avalanche Canada says the two buried victims did not survive and the one person partly buried was rescued with injuries.
Brian Moore has been charged with 10 counts of indecent assault on a male, one count of sexual touching of a person under 14 years old, and one count of sexual assault. North Vancouver RCMP say Moore, now 83, taught at Upper Lynn Elementary School starting in 1970 before the end of his employment in 1982.
John Rustad, who has been representing the northern B.C. riding of Nechako Lakes as an independent, said Thursday the B.C. Conservatives now best represent his political views and goals.
Wat, speaking on Phoenix TV's Daily Topic Show, said "we are very opposed to so-called safe injection sites," remarks she later said "accidentally misrepresented" her party's position. The Liberal MLA representing Richmond Centre is the latest politician to be accused of straying from an official line or tailoring a message to non-English-speaking audiences.
In his latest report on the province's COVID-19 vaccine coverage, auditor general Michael Pickup says the ministry had processes to estimate vaccination rates for residents and staff in long-term care and assisted living but the process was cumbersome.