News Items tag as: VQA wine in grocery stores

After a year of debate, wine now sold at Kamloops grocery store
October 07, 2016 - 12:16 PM

KAMLOOPS - After more than a year of debate, wine is actually on the shelves of a Kamloops grocery store.
City council to ponder wine sales in Penticton grocery stores once again
March 07, 2016 - 2:30 PM

PENTICTON - It looks like Penticton city councillors will have quite a bit to discuss at tonight’s regular meeting as the contentious and complicated issue of wine sales in grocery stores is back.
Discover Wines stores set to shut down in Kelowna and Kamloops after company sells licenses to Overwaitea
November 17, 2015 - 2:25 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Two VQA wine stores in Kelowna and another in Kamloops have agreed to sell their wine licenses to the Overwaitea Food Group, paving the way for wine sales in local grocery stores.
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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

No weed, just beer: Bavaria bans smoking cannabis at Oktoberfest and beer gardens
BERLIN (AP) — You can get drunk at Bavaria's world-famous Oktoberfest, but don't get high. The southern German state will ban smoking cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens, and even at the Oktoberfest, the world

Thousands of short-term rentals in B.C. go back to long-term May 1
LANGLEY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby is warning real estate investors and speculators that his government is tilting the rules towards families seeking homes as it tightens the rules on short-term rentals. Eby said Thursday th

After a year of debate, wine now sold at Kamloops grocery store