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Being a repeat champion is no great honour when the competition is all about identifying British Columbia's worst road.

This week's storm system has weakened, but make way for possible thundershowers.

Gasoline Alley may have lost a couple service stations, but the car will forever be the king in not-so-beautiful downtown Westbank.

A driver pases by the Shell gas station at the intersection of Richter Street and Harvey Avenue in Kelowna on Thursday, shortly after the price at many stations in town shot up - again - to 147.9 a litre. Fed up with high gas prices? Write us a letter to the editor and email it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Kelowna received a half-month's worth of rain from Tuesday afternoon through noon Wednesday.

If the city approves, kindergarten children in Kelowna's Upper Mission will walk to a neighbourhood middle school in five years or so.

Two campers found dead in Kalamalka Lake on Wednesday were wearing life-jackets that didn't fit properly, say rescuers.

 

At about 7:30 this morning a Coldstream resident out for a walk in Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park near the dog beach noticed a cooler floating in the water and one on shore.

On a closer look, he noticed what appeared to be a dog floating in the water as well.

RCMP were called out as well as Vernon Search and Rescue.

Search and Rescue volunteers brought out two of their boats and started to search the lake, said Vernon RCMP spokesman Gord Molendyk..

In the last hour, two bodies have been located in the area of Cousens Bay.

At this time police are not releasing any details around the identities of the two bodies while they continue to determine who they are and where they are from.

 

Retiring Penticton MLA Bill Barisoff will have the second-highest pension among retiring or defeated MLAs, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says.