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iN PHOTOS: A peek into beautiful backyards, gardens in Thompson-Okanagan
August 23, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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There are some stunning yards in Kamloops and the Okanagan with patios, lights and gardens bursting with flowers and shrubs.
What to do with those Oregon grape berries
August 17, 2024 - 8:42 AM
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Sometimes the most ordinary, unremarkable looking plants growing in our forests and neighbourhoods can have some surprising characteristics.
iN VIDEO: Highly flammable invasive plant spreading in North Okanagan
August 06, 2024 - 12:30 PM

While the yellow flowers of Scotch broom might be pretty, the invasive plant is cause for concern as its high oil content makes it highly flammable, posing an increase to wildfire risk.
iN PHOTOS: Kelowna man shares images of city's natural treasure Munson Pond
June 28, 2024 - 6:00 AM

Alan Cohoe is a retired RV instructor at Okanagan College and spends much of his free time watching wildlife and honing his photography skills at Munson Pond, a wetland in the centre of Kelowna.
iN PHOTOS: Muddy backyard near Kamloops transforms into xeriscape masterpiece
June 21, 2024 - 6:00 AM

A hard working gardener near Kamloops spent the past four months transforming her backyard from a bare and muddy space to a beautiful xeriscape masterpiece.
Gardeners in Kamloops spot unique, colour-changing spiders
June 15, 2024 - 6:00 AM

Warm weather brings out unique insects and spiders in the Thompson-Okanagan region, and some of them have extraordinary talents.
Expect patchy spring wildflowers in areas burned by wildfire in Okanagan
March 24, 2024 - 8:00 AM

Spring in the valley is often accompanied by a yellow sea of Okanagan sunflowers. But after the devastating wildfires last summer, can residents expect to see the return of some of the regions most recognizable wildflowers?
Summer flowers are blooming again in Kamloops and the Okanagan
December 27, 2023 - 5:00 PM
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If this seems to be an unusually warm winter so far, local green thumbs agree.
iN PHOTOS: Botanic gardens open for tours in Falkland this summer
July 23, 2022 - 7:00 PM
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Four acres of botanic gardens in the mountains above Falkland is open for tours this summer for the first time.
iN PHOTOS: ‘It’s living, it’s breathing’: Outdoor tours of syilx cultural garden in high demand
July 11, 2022 - 2:30 PM

Tours of a busy cultural garden in syilx homelands are increasing awareness about syilx plants, medicines and stories among both Indigenous and non-Indigenous visitors.
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LETTER: 'Be Kind. Be Calm. Be Safe.': COVID five years in
OPINION Be Kind. Be Calm. Be Safe. Those memorable words spoken during the COVID pandemic by BC’s Provincial Heath Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry resonated far beyond by boundaries of the province she so effect

Trying to buy Canadian? Shoppers in Kamloops, Okanagan find it isn't easy
A trade war with President Donald Trump has Canadian shoppers trying to source locally made grocery products, but understanding product labels at major grocery outlets is complicated and some major grocery outlets are not forthcoming with informa

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

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