News Items tag as: Silver Star Mountain Resort

Thompson, Okanagan mountain resorts sell out season bike passes within hours
May 04, 2021 - 6:30 PM

Local mountain resorts are looking ahead to a busy bike season, with season passes selling out within hours.
Half price or cheap lift tickets at some Thompson-Okanagan ski resorts this Family Day
February 14, 2020 - 3:00 PM

With the Family Day long weekend upon us, some ski resorts in the region will be offering discounted lift tickets.
Aussies in Kelowna, Kamloops, Vernon area resorts raising funds to send home
January 07, 2020 - 7:30 PM

Aussies who have made the annual trek to the Southern Interior to work at area ski resorts are having a surreal experience — being far from home surrounded by snow while fires devastate many regions of Australia.
Nearly 12,000 Thompson, North Okanagan homes still without power as BC Hydro tries to catch up
January 02, 2020 - 12:21 PM

Poor weather and treacherous road conditions have hampered BC Hydro efforts to restore power outages in the North Okanagan, Thompson and Shuswap areas over the past couple of days.
VIDEO: Silver Star Mountain Resort has a virtual reality museum
July 03, 2018 - 6:30 PM

SILVER STAR - A virtual reality experience is now available at Silver Star Mountain Resort.
It snowed at Big White and Silver Star on the weekend
June 11, 2018 - 11:27 AM

KELOWNA - Just 10 days before the summer solstice there was snow on the ground in the villages at Big White Ski Resort and Silver Star Mountain Resort yesterday.
You can ski for $5 this Sunday at Silver Star Mountain
April 05, 2018 - 10:59 AM

VERNON - Skiing doesn’t get much cheaper than this.
iN PHOTOS: This is what record-breaking Okanagan snow looks like
March 08, 2018 - 6:30 PM

OKANAGAN - There’s a whopping nine feet of snow at Silver Star Mountain right now — the height of an average ceiling.
Silver Star Mountain limits trail use due to high wildfire risk
July 27, 2017 - 4:09 PM

VERNON - Silver Star is restricting the hours that people can use the mountain’s trails for hiking and biking to reduce the risk of a wildfire.
VIDEO: A skier and a mountain biker share the slopes at Silver Star Mountain
June 06, 2017 - 10:43 AM

VERNON - The folks at Silver Star Mountain aren’t letting this year’s surplus of snow go to waste.
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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

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Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

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