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Wilden Living Lab show homes ready for new families
January 31, 2017 - 3:31 PM

As laboratories go, the comfy, newly-built Wilden Living Lab is already a winner.
Worksafe BC warns of dangers of asbestos
November 22, 2016 - 9:37 AM

WorkSafeBC has launched an awareness campaign targeted to home property owners who are considering or undertaking renovations or demolitions, regarding the dangers of asbestos in homes built before 1990. The campaign runs until early 2017 across a broad spectrum of media including radio, television, print and social media.
New public artwork installed at Tournament Capital Centre
September 08, 2016 - 1:22 PM

KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Art Gallery and the City of Kamloops are proud to announce the permanent installation of a new artwork at the entrance to the Tournament Capital Centre.
New installation by local artist Jane Everett opens at Kelowna Art Gallery
October 18, 2015 - 2:52 PM

KELOWNA - Any visitors to a new show at the Kelowna Art Gallery who are fond of loons, and paddling on lakes, and spending time at a cottage, will find the imagery of this exhibition appealing. Jane Everett is a highly skilled artist, and accomplished at her craft, of rendering naturalistic loons, and the fleeting effects of light on water, and ripples and waves as they form and dissipate.

The exhibition is entitled Raft and is a tribute to the loon, an iconic Canadian animal.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
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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'
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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

Wilden Living Lab show homes ready for new families