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Places to celebrate New Year's Eve in Kamloops, Okanagan
December 31, 2024 - 1:30 PM

With New Year's Eve comes celebration, and what better way to ring in the new year than spending a night on the town with old and new friends.
iN PHOTOS: Renowned Kamloops photographer Peter Olsen on the trade, his connection to the city
December 04, 2024 - 7:00 AM

If you’ve spent time in Kamloops, you’ve likely seen Peter Olsen’s commercial photography work on the walls of businesses or viewed his work on social media where he shares urban and landscape shots of the area.
'Bright and happy': Vernon artist finds beauty in the mundane
December 01, 2024 - 2:30 PM

Vernon artist Liz MacArthur loves to paint the little things she finds extraordinarily beautiful. What others may find mundane, she studies, finds the remarkable and captures it with her paintbrush.
OKIB mother and daughter ensuring Indigenous food security with 'food forest'
November 30, 2024 - 12:00 PM

Mariel and Sienna Belanger, a Syilx mother and daughter duo from the Okanagan Indian Band, are in the midst of creating a "food forest", a resource that will secure organic, local Indigenous food for generations to come.
Meet Doug the beaver the watershed recovery engineer working near Kamloops
November 28, 2024 - 7:00 PM

At the heart of Skeetchestn territory is the Deadman Watershed, a living landscape of roughly 900 square kilometres of forest and grassland northwest of Kamloops (Tk’emlups).
Four of Canada's most endangered species call the Thompson-Okanagan home
August 21, 2024 - 6:00 PM

Some of Canada's most at risk animals call the Thompson-Okanagan region home.
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.
iN PHOTOS: Cool rock formations to find in the Thompson-Okanagan
May 13, 2024 - 6:00 AM

There are many wondrous geological formations to be found in the Thompson-Okanagan region, including hoodoos, balancing rocks and basalt columns.
With climate change, drought are lush green lawns a thing of the past in Kamloops, Okanagan?
April 21, 2024 - 7:00 PM

Drought risk, tighter water restrictions and increased wildfire risk are just a few reasons why some residents in the southern Interior are rethinking what their lawns and yards should look like.
iN VIDEO: How wildfires and drought are impacting salmon in southern BC Interior
March 17, 2024 - 3:30 PM

Climate change is impacting salmon and the way salmon streams are being cared for in the province.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the first week of April 2025. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones

No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
A Kelowna brewery successfully avoided a fine for selling beer to an undercover minor, but it did fire the employee. The province's liquor regulator decided against handing down a $7,000 fine after an 18-year-old bought a six-pack from

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

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way for development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

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