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UPDATE: Costco, IGA chicken salad recall; possible Listeria contamination
April 03, 2015 - 3:54 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Salads made with pre-cooked chicken have been pulled out of the coolers at Costco and IGA stores in B.C. in a recall triggered by an inspection by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Total lunar eclipse an Easter weekend treat
April 03, 2015 - 10:34 AM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Play a little hide and seek with one of the biggest ‘eggs’ you can find this week — a total lunar eclipse is scheduled to take place this Easter weekend.
Okanagan College tuition going up
April 03, 2015 - 8:26 AM

OKANAGAN - Tuition fees are going up two per cent with Okanagan College’s board of governors approval of a $94.95 million operating budget.
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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

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

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

UPDATE: Costco, IGA chicken salad recall; possible Listeria contamination