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Stressed? Sick? Swiss town lets doctors prescribe free museum visits as art therapy for patients
March 29, 2025 - 10:00 AM

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (AP) — The world’s woes got you down? Feeling burnout at work? Need a little something extra to fight illness or prep for surgery? The Swiss town of Neuchâtel is offering its residents a novel medical option: Expose yourself to art and get a doctor’s note to do it for free.
How racial bias affects asthma testing in BC
March 22, 2025 - 7:00 AM
Get motivated to exercise regularly like these gym rats in their 70s and 80s
March 02, 2025 - 9:00 AM

You know you should develop a regular exercise routine, but you lack motivation. Promises to yourself are quickly broken, and you never establish enough of the workout habit to experience any rewards.
Some whales sing low enough to be 'acoustically invisible' to predators: research
February 16, 2025 - 9:00 PM

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on if they are more likely to fight or flee from a predator.
The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024
January 01, 2025 - 9:00 AM

It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency. While former President Jimmy Carter ’s time in the White House only lasted one term, the decades afterward were defined by humanitarian work that affected people all around the world.
The November Project gets people outside to exercise and socialize together all winter long
November 23, 2024 - 9:00 AM

The sun had yet to come up in Edmonton, Alberta, and it was more than 20 degrees below zero. Tanis Smith layered up anyway, ready to run up and down hundreds of stairs among the trees in the Saskatchewan River Valley.
What makes walking so great for your health and what else you need to do
November 16, 2024 - 1:00 PM

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Janet Rapp strode briskly down a paved path through the city zoo, waving at friends and stopping briefly to greet emus she knows by name.
What 'training to failure' means and how to incorporate it into your workout
October 19, 2024 - 3:00 PM

LONDON (AP) — No pain, no gain, as the old exercise adage goes. But just how much pain do you have to endure to benefit from weight training? That depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, fitness experts say.
Kelowna’s own 'The Amazing Race' inspired event this fall
August 10, 2024 - 2:40 PM

A competition inspired by The Amazing Race TV show is coming to Kelowna in the fall.
Bowlers roll out idea to save Vernon's Lincoln Lanes
July 17, 2023 - 4:20 PM

After a year of the market with no takers, a group of bowlers has pitched the idea that the city buy Vernon's only bowling alley and turn it into a municipal asset.
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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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