News Items tag as: Okanagan Indian Band

OKIB 'deeply concerned' Splatsin building houses in Vernon warehouse
August 15, 2025 - 6:00 PM
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A housing initiative from the Splatsin First Nation that will see pre-fabricated houses built in a warehouse in Vernon has been met with ire by the Okanagan Indian Band, which takes issue that the warehouse is located on the unceded territory of the Syilx Nation.
OKIB mother and daughter ensuring Indigenous food security with 'food forest'
November 30, 2024 - 12:00 PM

Mariel and Sienna Belanger, a Syilx mother and daughter duo from the Okanagan Indian Band, are in the midst of creating a "food forest", a resource that will secure organic, local Indigenous food for generations to come.
In secret, OKIB council members awarded themselves a huge pay increase
July 30, 2024 - 6:00 PM

Behind closed doors, the Okanagan Indian Band council have voted themselves up to 50% pay increases and kept knowledge of the extra wages from their membership.
New affordable Indigenous housing opens in Vernon
May 21, 2024 - 4:30 PM
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Phase 2 of an affordable Indigenous housing project in Vernon will provide 35 new homes.
Province spending $15M to protect Okanagan drinking water from wildfire
May 07, 2024 - 6:00 AM

The BC government, several municipalities and a First Nation have created a new plan to invest $15 million over several years to ensure the Okanagan’s drinking water is protected from wildfire.
UBC Okanagan student's research may help communities avoid flooding after wildfire
November 18, 2023 - 3:30 PM

Through its Public Scholars Initiative, the University of British Columbia Okanagan is making wildfire regions, such as the Okanagan, safer.
Indigenous Bloom opens cannabis store in Lake Country
January 22, 2019 - 5:00 PM
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LAKE COUNTRY - A cannabis retailer has been up and running in the Central Okanagan for just over a week now in a region that has yet to see a legal pot shop open its doors.
North Okanagan property owners set to vote on wastewater funding
January 16, 2019 - 6:30 AM

NORTH OKANAGAN - North Okanagan property owners will soon have their say on the funding for a proposed wastewater recovery project.
Local politicians in Central Okanagan plan to get up close and personal
November 23, 2018 - 3:00 PM

KELOWNA - West Kelowna is first in line for what could be a series of council-to-council meetings next year to discuss regional issues in the Central Okanagan.
Flooding still has some waterfront properties in North Okanagan under evacuation order
July 11, 2017 - 9:00 PM

NORTH OKANAGAN - As wildfires rage across the province, some people in the North Okanagan still can’t return to their waterfront properties because of flooding.
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