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Small Okanagan packing houses try to pick up slack after fruit grower co-op shutdown
September 14, 2024 - 12:00 PM

After the BC Tree Fruit Cooperative shutdown, small packing houses are helping orchardists find a home for their harvest, but it isn’t addressing a root problem for farmers.
Province providing $4M for BC tree fruit growers following co-op shutdown
September 12, 2024 - 5:00 PM

The BC government is redirecting $4 million to support orchardists who have been affected by the BC Tree Fruit Cooperative shut down.
Kamloops man's innovative solution to housing, drug crises gains ground, literally
August 22, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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Kamloops university student Trevor Starchuk designed a first-of-its-kind housing and treatment model to address the growing drug crisis and his fight against the poisoned drug crisis has taken a major step forward. He just secured a six-acre parcel of land for the project.
BC risks 'carpet' of rotting apples without help after co-op's closure: growers
August 09, 2024 - 9:00 PM

With less than a week to go before gala apples will be ready to be picked in British Columbia, the president of the provincial fruit growers' group worries about a devastating season without a way for farmers to refrigerate their crops.
More than 27,000 Kelowna lots targeted for more crowding with infill housing
February 04, 2024 - 6:00 PM
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The details are coming out on how the City of Kelowna is going to comply with provincial rules to crowd more housing onto most single-family lots.
Hide-tanning equipment stolen from West Kelowna high school
December 15, 2023 - 9:52 AM

Most of Mount Boucherie Secondary School’s hide-tanning supplies were stolen in a break in this week.
Why you better get used to living with rats in Kamloops, Okanagan
November 27, 2023 - 6:00 AM
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Rats.
Stolen box of precious keepsakes found, returned to Kamloops family
April 04, 2023 - 6:00 PM

A Kamloops woman was reunited with a box of precious family mementos that were stolen over a month ago.
iN VIDEO: Penticton couple confronted for buying 2-cent items at Walmart
February 18, 2023 - 7:00 AM

A Penticton couple left the local Walmart confused after they were accused of theft for buying a two-cent storage bin.
Kamloops family of 6 stuffed into 2 bedroom to afford rent
November 20, 2022 - 8:05 AM
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A family of six is living in a crammed two-bedroom rental in Kamloops because they can’t find any other affordable options.
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School Trustees left to choose which children in BC will be left behind
OPINION School Trustees left to choose which children in BC will be left behind Once again, we are in the thick of the annual public school budget cycle in BC. During the next few months, as is outlined in the

Kelowna distillery to pay former employee $60,000 in unpaid wages
A Kelowna distillery failed in its bid to overturn a ruling that would have it pay more than $60,000 to a former employee in unpaid overtime. Forbidden Spirits appealed the decision last year, but it didn't have enough evidence to convi

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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