Nich Johansen

Journalist at @CastanetNews, covering #Kelowna court most weeks. Would rather be skiing.
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[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

@DriveBC Thank you for the clarification.

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

@DriveBC Can you confirm that the next 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. closure of Hwy 97 north of Summerland will be on March 11, as it says in your latest update, and not March 10, as was announced Friday?

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

@DriveBC Has Highway 33 been reopened this morning? I'm a little unclear from the latest update on the DriveBC site.

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

@DriveBC I do not.

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

@DriveBC Any information about a mudslide on Westside Road, south of the La Casa development?

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now @CNN’s @clarissaward, @scottycnn and @BrentSwailsCNN managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report.

[BC Wildfire Service @BCGovFireInfo]

Watch the video summary to see the 2023 wildfire season through the eyes of our people: https://t.co/si5dZEaw1V

Or visit our website for more information: https://t.co/l8CpnDVlFt

[Ben Perrin @profbenperrin]

@elenoresturko So 13,000 British Columbians have died from unregulated drugs since 2016 and your focus is on seeking to punish people for testing drugs and providing them to others to live and not die.

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

After serving 14.5 months of his five-year sentence, Robert Saunders has been granted day parole.
He stole close to $500,000 from vulnerable, Indigenous youth in his care over a 6.5-year period, and the Parole Board still doesn't believe he's remorseful. https://t.co/wKxQObFI0n

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

New evacuation orders have been issued in the backcountry west of Peachland, due to a rapidly growing fire that was just discovered Saturday evening. It's displaying Rank 5 fire behaviour, which is very aggressive. Wildfire season is not over.
https://t.co/LibFCxEFLJ

[The Bridge Services @TheBridgeServ]

The Bridge wouldn't be the same without our volunteers! Come connect with us this Saturday at the #OkanaganVolunteerFair2023 hosted by @KCRcommunity and learn about our many volunteer opportunities. 💚🌎

[Rob Shaw @RobShaw_BC]

NEW - The man charged in Chinatown triple-stabbing was deemed a "significant threat" to public safety, with "a high risk of relapse" according to a BC Review Board decision from April I've obtained.
Nonetheless, he got an unescorted day pass last weekend.
https://t.co/GAFiKe24gU

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

A photo from a reader showing the devastation around the Traders Cove community caused by the McDougall Creek fire last month. There are 405 properties in the area that remain under evacuation orders.

📷David and Tonya Dyck📷

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

First a fire tornado, now territorial bears.

https://t.co/bEsu6IzLKp

[BC Wildfire Service @BCGovFireInfo]

A look at operations on the McDougall Creek wildfire (K52767), the estimated 12,318ha fire burning adjacent to West Kelowna.

https://t.co/q7aVAi3Chd

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

All evacuation orders within the City of Kelowna have now been rescinded. https://t.co/mrvXWmjH9x

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

Some Kelowna residents can now begin returning homes, after McKinley Landing and Finch Road areas have been downgraded from an evacuation order to alert. https://t.co/QMTiqSDDoz

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

CORRECTION: while the man was granted bail yesterday, I believe he has not yet perfected his bail and he currently remains in custody.

[Nich Johansen @NichJohansen]

A Kelowna man has been charged with manslaughter after a woman was killed in Kelowna's Rutland area Monday night, during an alleged domestic dispute. The man, who faces a separate domestic assault charge from last year, was released on bail yesterday. https://t.co/3gyxfrHvQi

[Colin Dacre @ccdacre]

'It was a violent event': 13 members of Wilson's Landing Fire Department lose homes to wildfire https://t.co/mXO59EzEqK