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News Items tag as: Okanagan Indian Band
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.
Suspected algae bloom in Okanagan Lake a 'natural occurrence,' officials say
June 27, 2017 - 4:42 PM
VERNON - A possible algae bloom at the north end of Okanagan Lake continues to be monitored and the Ministry of Environment says there is no evidence that raw sewage made it into the water.
FLOOD WATCH 2017: Okanagan Indian Band issues evacuation orders as lake levels rise
May 24, 2017 - 6:27 AM
VERNON - The Okanagan Indian Band has issued evacuation orders for flood affected residents and organized an informational town hall meeting for tonight.
UPDATE: Parker Cove residents evacuated overnight now allowed to return home
May 10, 2017 - 9:51 AM
VERNON - People living in Parker Cove, on Okanagan Lake, have been given the OK to return home this mornign after an overnight evacuation order due to a large log jam.
Okanagan Indian Band elects some fresh faces to council
March 30, 2017 - 9:53 AM
VERNON - Six new councillors have been elected to the Okanagan Indian Band council.
Okanagan Indian Band members vote for next chief and council
March 29, 2017 - 11:35 AM
NORTH OKANAGAN - The polls are open as Okanagan Indian Band members vote for a new chief and council today, March 29.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit
Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same
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Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r
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