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Province wants to keep trailer of deceased BC man who sold clean drugs
November 01, 2023 - 12:00 PM

Jerry Martin died of an overdose just months after announcing his plans to sell tested drugs out of a store in Vancouver. Now, the province is trying to take possession of the trailer he used as a mobile business.
Kelowna man ordered to demolish derelict house faces similar charges at second home
August 04, 2023 - 7:00 AM

Janusz Grelecki has a long history of accumulating massive amounts of what many people consider junk and piling it in and around the places he lives.
Want B.C.-made boozy freezies? You have to go to California to get them
February 10, 2023 - 7:11 AM
iNwine

It all started in 2017 when Sheereen Price and Gabrielle Mustapich were sitting on a Vancouver beach.
B.C. government tried to take Kelowna home where tenants dealt drugs
December 29, 2022 - 7:30 AM
iNhome

A Kelowna man who was arrested in connection with drug trafficking has managed to keep his property after the province attempted to seize it.
RCMP bust multi-million dollar illegal cannabis mail order operation in B.C.
December 13, 2022 - 1:41 PM
iN420

Three people were arrested in Surrey and White Rock in a B.C. RCMP investigation into a multi-million dollar illegal online mail order cannabis operation.
iN HOLIDAYS: How Blackwell Dairy Farm makes their famous, golden eggnog
November 19, 2022 - 7:00 AM
iNwine

A big, busy production of fresh eggnog is underway at Blackwell Dairy Farm in Kamloops.
This mid-size Okanagan city experiencing biggest housing boom in valley
August 03, 2022 - 6:00 AM
iNhome

Kelowna is the obvious go-to place for newcomers to the Okanagan with one of the fastest growing populations in the country and a building boom that saw $1.15 billion in building permits issued in 2021.
Dark web fentanyl linked to U.S. sailor deaths came from B.C.
June 16, 2022 - 11:38 AM

A B.C. man was indicted on federal charges in the U.S. for allegedly operating an international dark web drug organization linked to the opioid overdose deaths of two U.S. Navy servicemen.
Look out Sun-Rype, here comes Okanagan College’s Unusually Good Food Co.
February 27, 2022 - 7:59 AM
iNwine

A group of Okanagan College students have launched a project that echoes the creation of Sun-Rype in the valley back in 1946.
Community fridge and pantry planned for Penticton's downtown
February 06, 2022 - 6:00 PM

A Penticton couple wants to strengthen the local food security network by opening up a communal fridge and pantry in the city’s downtown.
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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

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

Penticton business set to launch cannabis consumption patio on 4/20
A Penticton cannabis retailer will be opening its consumption patio this weekend and the owner says it'll be the perfect spot for customers to safely enjoy a toke. Cannabis Cottage is hosting a launch party for its all-new designat

Thousands of short-term rentals in B.C. go back to long-term May 1
LANGLEY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby is warning real estate investors and speculators that his government is tilting the rules towards families seeking homes as it tightens the rules on short-term rentals. Eby said Thursday th

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