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Damp summer in B.C. Interior created a spidery paradise
September 11, 2019 - 6:00 AM

If it seemed like there were a lot more spiders lurking about this summer, you’re not going buggy.
The shy, the venomous, and the mythical: 6 spiders of the Thompson-Okanagan
July 20, 2019 - 3:30 PM

They generally mind their own business, spend their time munching down on garden pests and mosquitos, and only one in a very long list is dangerous —and even that one is pretty wimpy when compared to others of its species.
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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
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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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