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  • TRU announces major corporate donation

    November 24, 2017 - 11:16 AM

    KAMLOOPS, BC – Thompson Rivers University is excited to announce its largest corporate donation this year. The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP) is gifting the university $500,000 to go toward bursaries for students in trades, social work, human service, research and environmental science.

  • Big and strong may not last as long, according to UBC prof

    August 24, 2017 - 3:10 PM

    In the battle of the sexes, new UBC research suggests that men may be stronger physically but women have much greater muscle endurance than their male counterparts.

  • Okanagan College students notch 12 podium finishes at Skills Canada BC competition

    April 11, 2017 - 10:33 AM

    Four Okanagan College students have punched their tickets to Winnipeg, MB to compete in the Skills Canada National Competition next month, after gold medal-winning performances at the provincial competition in Abbotsford last week.

  • Community celebrates research at UBC Okanagan

    March 03, 2017 - 4:53 PM

    KELOWNA - From advances in chronic disease interventions to improving wireless communications, innovative research projects at UBC Okanagan are attracting national attention.

  • Nicola Valley Hospital – Emergency Department Expansion

    December 25, 2016 - 11:58 AM

    MERRITT – Interior Health has chosen Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd. as the design consultant for the planned expansion and renovation of the Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre’s emergency department.

    Kasian was chosen as the successful proponent from among nine submissions for a recent request for proposals (RFP) that closed Dec. 6.

  • School of Engineering hosts first-ever community open house

    November 09, 2016 - 9:15 AM

    Race cars, concrete toboggans, autonomous vehicles, lasers, mechatronics and sustainable infrastructure solutions. These are a few of the things you will learn about at UBC Okanagan’s campus Saturday.

  • Water quality advisory ends for Killiney Beach and Westshore Estates water customers

    August 25, 2016 - 9:24 AM

    CENTRAL OKANAGAN - A precautionary water quality advisory has been removed for customers served by the Killiney Beach and Westshore water systems in the Central Okanagan West Electoral Area.

    The lifting of the precautionary advisory this morning by the Regional District of Central Okangan was made in consultation with Interior Health.

  • Repair Café this weekend in Kelowna

    November 03, 2015 - 3:30 PM

    KELOWNA - Do you have something at home that’s broken and needs fixing or repair?  Really wish you could give it a new life, but you just don’t know how to go about it? Don’t put it off any longer! Bring it to the Repair Café this weekend at Okanagan College, and get it fixed at last, for free

  • Carson Air touches down with second major donation to Okanagan College

    October 26, 2015 - 10:57 AM

    KELOWNA - Carson Air has donated a Metroliner II aircraft to the Aircraft Maintenance Engineering M-License program; the company estimates the value of the aircraft at approximately $300,000. The aircraft landed at the Vernon Airport on Oct. 16 welcomed by students, instructors, and Okanagan College employees outside the College’s Aerospace hangar adjacent to the runway.

  • UBC Okanagan research moves the bar on the quest for faster Internet speeds

    October 02, 2015 - 9:36 AM

    People interested in faster computer and Internet speeds should take note of research coming out of labs at UBC’s Okanagan Campus.

    Researchers within UBC’s School of Engineering have concluded that photonic nanojets — essentially nano-scale high-intensity beams of light — may be the key for future optical computation and communication technologies.

    These nanojets focus light in the form of an intense “afterburner,” as Assoc. Prof.
  • 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
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. 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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