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Kamloops council part of a growing resistance to BC Housing
March 11, 2025 - 7:00 PM

Kamloops isn't the only city challenging BC Housing as the Crown corporation in charge of housing the homeless eyes up more projects in the province.
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.
Osoyoos Canada Day shooter sentenced to seven years in prison
March 08, 2025 - 7:00 AM

The man convicted of possessing and firing a handgun on a crowded beach at Osoyoos Lake during Canada Day celebrations in 2022 and seriously injuring a young man was sentenced to seven years in a federal penitentiary consecutive to a four-year sentence he's already serving on other gun-related convictions.
Shuswap man wanted in Penticton caught in Kamloops
March 06, 2025 - 12:04 PM

A Scotch Creek man, who was wanted out of Penticton, was caught in Tk’emlúps during a suspicious vehicle investigation earlier this week.
Avoiding American? Tips to source local produce in Kamloops, Okanagan
March 05, 2025 - 7:00 AM
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Some shoppers in Kamloops and the Okanagan are researching and sourcing Canadian products in the wake of U.S. president Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Former Rotary Club president pleads guilty to attacking wife in Keremeos home
March 04, 2025 - 6:00 PM

A former Rotary Club president has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after he attacked his wife with a serrated hunting knife at their Keremeos home last spring.
NDP select candidate to replace outgoing South Okanagan MP Richard Cannings
March 03, 2025 - 2:34 PM

With the federal election likely just around the corner, New Democratic party members in the riding of Similkameen-South Okanagan-West Kootenay picked a candidate to replace outgoing MP Richard Cannings.
Modern-day Miss Penticton about empowering young woman not walking a runway
March 01, 2025 - 6:00 AM

The modern-day Miss Penticton pageant has come a long way from its origin in 1948 and is now a development program with a focus on empowering young women.
First Nations restoring Columbia River fish access to Okanagan Lake after a century
February 27, 2025 - 7:00 PM

A coalition of First Nations and other levels of government have come together to restore fish access to Okanagan Lake after a century of restriction and habitat loss.
Seven wineries to visit in the Okanagan and Kamloops this spring
February 23, 2025 - 6:00 AM
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The Okanagan is known for, above all else, being a top wine producing region in British Columbia.
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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 second week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

Okanagan distillers quenching thirst for bourbon during trade war with US
A couple of distilleries in the Okanagan are working to meet an increase in demand for their bourbon-based whiskey as American brands are being pulled from BC Liquor Store shelves. “We have three different styles of bourbon and the de

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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