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  • RDOS Helps Reduce the Mosquito Population

    March 17, 2017 - 12:30 PM

    Since 1974, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) Nuisance Mosquito Control Program typically runs between mid-May into late August. For the past several years, the program has been starting in April due to weather conditions and resident complaints.

  • Tie it, tarp it, strap it: Secure landfill waste loads

    April 09, 2016 - 3:19 PM

    KELOWNA - The City of Kelowna is reminding residents that waste loads going to the Glenmore Landfill need to be tied, strapped and tarped.

  • Free fall yard waste drop-off periods returns

    October 11, 2015 - 3:04 PM

    The Regional District of North Okanagan (RDNO) reminds residents that the fall free yard and garden waste drop-off period at all RDNO Recycling and Disposal Facilities (RDFs) runs from October 15, 2015 to November 30, 2015.

  • Secure your loads

    March 23, 2015 - 1:48 PM

    KAMLOOPS – The City of Kamloops Bylaw Department would like to remind residents that insecure loads can cause hazards and result in fines.

    Driving a load to the landfill? Ensure that your cargo is securely placed in your vehicle and completely tied down or covered in accordance with Traffic Bylaw No. 23-30, Section 703 – Motor Vehicle Act (BC) Division 35.04.

    Improper loads are a danger to everyone on the road.

  • Take steps to avoid mosquito bites and West Nile virus

    June 18, 2013 - 11:09 AM

    Summer is here and so are the mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are more than a nuisance; some carry West Nile virus, a disease that is spread from infected birds to humans through mosquito bites.  Any activity that prevents mosquitoes from biting or breeding can help to reduce the risk of becoming infected with West Nile virus.

    West Nile virus (WNv) was first detected in B.C. in the South Okanagan during the summer of 2009.

  • Secure Your Loads

    June 13, 2013 - 11:08 AM

    The City of Kamloops Bylaw Department would like to remind residents that insecure loads can cause hazards and result in fines.

    Driving a load to the landfill? Ensure that your cargo is securely placed in your vehicle and completely tied down or covered in accordance with Traffic Bylaw No. 23-30, Section 703 – Motor Vehicle Act (BC) Division 35.04.

    Improper loads are a danger to everyone on the road.
  • 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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