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Okanagan Conservative MLA now representing her riding as an Independent
March 11, 2025 - 7:00 AM

Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream MLA Tara Armstrong has left the Conservative Party of BC to sit as an Independent after fellow party member Dallas Brodie was ousted for mocking residential school survivors.
Latest nominee in race for Conservative candidacy in North Okanagan riding announced
March 10, 2025 - 6:00 PM

The latest nominee in the race to become the Conservative candidate in the new federal riding of Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee has been announced.
RCMP on hunt for accused in massive Okanagan guns and drugs bust
March 10, 2025 - 10:57 AM

A man is wanted by Vernon RCMP after a huge drug and gun bust brought numerous charges against him.
Kamloops drug addict credits tough love for his recovery, advocates for forced treatment
March 10, 2025 - 7:00 AM

After decades of being addicted to crack cocaine, Mike Haertel is sober and living independently at a residential housing building in Kamloops operated by BC Housing.
iN PHOTOS: Cute cats lounge away in Kamloops, Okanagan
March 10, 2025 - 6:00 AM

These adorable domestic cats in Kamloops and the Okanagan don’t appear to be bothered by overcast weather and bring cheer to their owners.
Another Okanagan criminal with 100 convictions released back into community
March 09, 2025 - 8:00 AM

When 41-year-old Blake Tyler Dunstall was arrested at gunpoint in the spring of 2023 he had a bayonet, a knife, two machetes and a couple of cans of bear spray in his vehicle along with 42 grams of meth.
Okanagan landscape painter puts memories, emotion into his work
March 09, 2025 - 7:00 AM

West Kelowna's Robert E. Wood uses his childhood memories of growing up in the Okanagan to inform his work as a landscape artist.
Deaths of homeless people on the rise in Interior Health region
March 08, 2025 - 2:30 PM

The numbers of homeless people dying each year in the Okanagan, Thompson and Shuswap region are on the rise.
Suspect arrested in pair of suspicious Kelowna blazes
March 07, 2025 - 11:52 AM

A suspect has been arrested in connection to a pair of Kelowna structure fires in mid February.
Mild winter means big savings on the road for Kelowna, Kamloops
March 07, 2025 - 7:00 AM
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Millions of dollars are spent plowing hundreds of kilometres of roads in Kelowna and Kamloops in the winter, so a mild winter can mean big savings.
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THOMPSON: Why Republican politicians are getting booed in America
OPINION Thomas Wolfe wrote: “You can’t go home again” 85 years ago. The novel’s meaning is clear: things change and people change, so it’s not possible to return to the past. Nowher

American booze pulled from BC Liquor Stores available at independent outlets
Two BC Liquor Stores in Kamloops were bustling this week as employees pulled American booze off the shelves including Jack Daniel’s American bourbon whisky, Tito’s vodka from Texas and Jim Beam Kentucky bourbon. The action is in

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

'Skating on thin ice': Kelowna's housing sales well below normal
A BC real estate analysis report says Kelowna's housing market is "skating on thin ice" as February's sales were a mere fraction of what was expected. According to The Kelowna Rennie Advantage report, the jump in sales fro

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