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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.
New Unified Transit Fares and Passes Approved for 2018
November 16, 2017 - 3:27 PM

The City of Vernon, the District of Coldstream and the Regional District of North Okanagan jointly approved changes to transit fares to coincide with planned service expansion and changes coming in spring 2018 in Vernon and on the Route #90 – UBCO. The simplified fare structure will encourage ridership and be less costly to administer. The existing single zone and multi zone fares will be unified into one, reducing the number of tickets and pass categories from fourteen (14) to five (5).
UBC researcher seeks to protect where the wild things walk
November 10, 2017 - 2:39 PM

UBC Professor Lael Parrott is working to protect low-elevation ecosystems that are important habitat and wildlife movement routes.
Happipad was developed by a UBC Okanagan professor and student to address the rental shortage
August 14, 2017 - 4:49 PM

KELOWNA - UBC engineers create a program to help connect renters and landlords.
City of Penticton begins capital works schedule for the summer of 2017
June 06, 2017 - 11:45 AM

PENTICTON - The City of Penticton’s work crews will be busy in various neighbourhoods throughout the city this summer as the Penticton Capital Works Program gets underway.
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.
Renowned photojournalist Juste to speak at Okanagan College
April 02, 2017 - 11:54 AM

KELOWNA - Internationally-acclaimed photojournalist Carl Juste has spent three decades bringing into focus the struggles of Haitians in the U.S. and abroad. Next week he’ll speak about his life behind the lens in a free lecture at Okanagan College.

After fleeing his homeland under threat of persecution, Haitian-born Juste and his politically active family settled in Miami’s Haitian community in 1965.
Flushing underway on RDCO water systems
March 31, 2017 - 11:49 AM

KELOWNA - The Regional District has started its spring water main flushing program.

Until approximately the end of May, RDCO Environmental Services staff will be going throughout the six water systems that it maintains and operates, flushing mains Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 am and 3:00 pm.

Roadside notice boards will be put up in advance of crews working in a particular system area.
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.
RDOS continues with infrastructure replacements in Naramata
March 01, 2017 - 2:27 PM

The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen is continuing its efforts to rehabilitate and upgrade aging water infrastructure in Regional District owned community water systems.
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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

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
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Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

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