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  • B.C. Interior's first genomics lab opens with provincial support

    December 11, 2017 - 11:49 AM

    KAMLOOPS - Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology Bruce Ralston attended the official opening of TRUgen today and met with molecular biologists who will apply their discoveries to benefit small- and medium-sized businesses in B.C.'s Interior.

  • 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.

  • High-throughput sequencing lab at TRU a first for BC Interior

    March 01, 2017 - 2:13 PM

    Thompson Rivers University will soon be home to the first high-throughput genomic sequencing lab in BC outside of the Lower Mainland, thanks to a $291,000 investment from Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund.

  • UBC Okanagan professor advocates the benefit of exercise for healthy aging

    February 21, 2017 - 3:39 PM

    An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but a local researcher says the best medicine for good health is making exercise a daily habit.

  • 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.

  • North Okanagan Naturalists’ Club celebrates 65 years of activity

    November 23, 2016 - 12:11 PM

    The North Okanagan Naturalists’ Club, commonly known as NONC, is pleased to celebrate its 65th anniversary this year since being founded in Vernon on December 12, 1951. 

  • Okanagan College hosts session on combining construction program and green building project

    November 14, 2015 - 3:46 PM

    KELOWNA - Would-be builders and carpenters have a chance on Nov. 23 to find out more about a course next spring that will take them onto the jobsite of tomorrow as Okanagan College instructors and students help to construct one of the most energy efficient homes in the region.

    The College’s Trades Department is hosting an information session at 5 p.m. on the evening of Nov.

  • Volunteer Highlights for July 2 to 9

    July 03, 2015 - 4:24 PM

    BC Living Arts
    BC Living Arts Event Volunteers - On July 10 – 11, BC Living Arts is hijacking Music in the Park for a music and arts festival at Riverside Park. Positions are: Backstage Artist Hosts, Gestural Loop Assistant, Art Installation Hosts, Promotion Hosts, Refreshment Garden Hosts, Fundraising Hosts, Photography Assistants, and the Tidy Team. 16+ to volunteer and family volunteering friendly. 250-682-2936.

  • Volunteer Highlights for Feb. 5 to 12

    February 05, 2015 - 11:10 AM

    Special Olympics - Kamloops

  • UBC honours faculty for teaching excellence and innovation

    May 12, 2014 - 10:44 AM

    Two inspirational professors from the Okanagan campus were honoured by UBC Thursday with Teaching Excellence and Innovation Awards.

    The award recipients are Susan Crichton, associate professor in the Faculty of Education, in the senior faculty category (10 years or more teaching experience), and Mina Hoorfar, associate professor in the School of Engineering, in the junior faculty category (less than 10 years teaching experience).
  • 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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