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  • Okanagan College students get hands-on experience in community for in-demand trades

    February 18, 2017 - 10:56 AM

    With a 44 per cent increase in new housing starts in the Shuswap over the last year, an Okanagan College program is training Salmon Arm students to meet the expected labour demand.

  • The Okanagan Centre for Innovation: designed with intention

    December 05, 2016 - 11:11 AM

    The countdown is on and all hands are on deck for the completion of the much anticipated Okanagan Centre for Innovation (OCI). The building is filled to the atrium with tenants who are enthusiastically planning their office spaces, all looking forward to moving in over the upcoming months.

  • Safety tips for hanging those lights this season

    November 30, 2016 - 11:53 AM

    As the calendar turns over to December, many thousands of British Columbia workers and homeowners will be decorating homes for the holidays and WorkSafeBC is reminding everyone to undertake this work safely, especially when using ladders. 

  • No smoking in Lake Country public spaces starting January

    November 23, 2016 - 9:55 AM

    Anyone in Lake Country thinking ahead to setting the goal to quit smoking in 2017 will get some help with their resolution from the new Smoking Regulation Bylaw 954, 2016 adopted by Council July 5, 2016, which comes into effect January 5, 2017.

  • FortisBC donation fuels new lab, teaching tools at Okanagan College

    November 18, 2016 - 10:53 AM

    Support from FortisBC is powering up a cutting-edge new space at Okanagan College’s Kelowna campus, helping the College deliver training for a number of B.C.’s most in-demand trades.

  • Craft beer revolution on tap at Okanagan College

    November 10, 2016 - 3:22 PM

    Martin Lewis knows that exploring craft beers at a festival or brewery can be an intimidating experience, and he has the tools to help beer lovers, from novice to veteran, navigate those hoppy waters.

  • Kelowna Crime Stoppers Unsolved Crimes

    October 19, 2016 - 3:51 PM

    Theft of ATV

  • Osoyoos couple wins $6,000 prize to WaterWise their yard

    October 02, 2016 - 4:04 PM

    KELOWNA - As people start turning off their outdoor taps and irrigation systems get blown out, the Okanagan Basin Water Board’s Okanagan WaterWise program is winding up its Make Water Work campaign for another year. But not before announcing this year’s Grand Prize winner of a $6,000 WaterWise yard upgrade – Rob Abbott and Felicia Taylor of Osoyoos.

  • TRU students get trades equipment boost

    July 14, 2016 - 4:27 PM

    KAMLOOPS - Carpentry students at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will benefit from the purchase of various tools, including new sliding compound mitre saws, routers and survey instruments, as part of a $300,000 investment by the Province in new industry-standard trades equipment.

  • Peachland to host a Wildfire FireSmart Community Workshop

    April 16, 2016 - 1:46 PM

    PEACHLAND – Thinking of building that dream home out in the serene wilderness or are you concerned about your home during a wildfire?
  • Reid Hamer-Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, Nov. 1, 2022. JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
    OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like the guy, more for what he could represent than wh
  • 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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