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Healing power of art
May 30, 2017 - 11:53 AM

The Healing Power of Art will soon gain the public spotlight at Penticton Regional Hospital.
Vernon gateway signs nearing completion
December 15, 2016 - 2:59 PM

VERNON - Three gateways signs that will welcome drivers to Vernon are nearing completion, with final design touches and concrete work expected to take place when the weather warms.
Historical bricks on Water Street to be reclaimed
May 16, 2016 - 5:00 PM

KELOWNA - The salvage of historically-significant bricks on Westcorp’s new downtown hotel site began today, May 16. Reclamation of the bricks on the existing Water Street building will be undertaken by locally owned Folio Building Group.
Kamloops United Church block party
May 09, 2016 - 3:00 PM

We are having a block party to celebrate what’s happening on St. Paul Street.
Pushor Mitchell supports trades expansion at Okanagan College
February 02, 2015 - 1:22 PM

KELOWNA - A local law firm is recognizing the importance of trades to the entire community and is putting its support behind a $33-million project to renovate and expand the trades training complex at the Kelowna Campus.

Pushor Mitchell LLP has pledged $30,000 to the Okanagan College Foundation towards the Bright Horizons, Building for Skills Campaign for the complex.

“Our gift is based on community mindedness,” says Alf Kempf, Partner, Pushor Mitchell LLP.
Canada’s award-winning eco-poet Don McKay to read from his works
January 10, 2014 - 3:55 PM

You could call him the poet laureate of ecological philosophy. A naturist, editor and revered scholar, Don McKay has been a leading influence in Canada’s eco-poetry movement since the early ‘70s.

McKay is an award-winning author of 12 books of poetry, twice winning the Governor General’s Award (Night Field, 1991; Another Gravity, 2000) and is the 2006 winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for Strike/Slip.
Camille Martin to present literary reading
January 04, 2014 - 10:56 AM

KELOWNA - UBC’s Visiting Author series starts New Year with celebrated Canadian poet
It takes crowning a nurse to bring new hope to remote Ghana
November 13, 2013 - 1:48 PM

REGAL TITLE BRINGS PROMISE FROM UBC'S SCHOOL OF NURSING TO BUILD A HEALTH CLINIC
Stephen Collis presents literary reading on November 18
November 08, 2013 - 10:52 AM

West Coast poet, author makes Okanagan appearance as Visiting Author

“Collis is slightly off-step/beat, just out of range of any comfortable assumption, and a good shuffle away from clear understanding.
City of Vernon Recognizes Chippendales for heritage preservation
August 28, 2013 - 4:17 PM

City of Vernon Mayor Rob Sawatzky (right) posed with Sean Chippendale at 4704 20 Street. Mr. Chippendale, his wife and family recently did renovations to restore and preserve their historic home.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

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

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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