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West Kelowna couple awarded for saving couple, baby from drowning in Osoyoos Lake
April 02, 2025 - 6:30 PM

A West Kelowna couple who helped save a Vancouver couple and their three-year-old toddler from drowning in Osoyoos Lake last summer were honoured for their efforts in a special ceremony this past Saturday evening.
Kamloops Christmas angel recognized by community for giving
December 15, 2024 - 7:00 AM

A Ukrainian senior in Kamloops, known for her delicious homemade pierogis, is being recognized for her charitable work and pulling the community together to help low-income seniors living alone.
iN PHOTOS: No kidding, Penticton farm offers lease-a-goat service
December 09, 2024 - 6:00 AM

Sometimes experiences are the best Christmas gifts you can give to a loved one, especially if it involves leasing a goat for a few days a year.
It's a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but big brands see profits
March 28, 2024 - 9:00 PM

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year. Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farmers in West Africa.
The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023
January 01, 2024 - 1:00 PM

Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia.
This Vernon couple found a unique way to help the less fortunate
April 23, 2023 - 9:00 AM

Vernon business owners Tracey Griffin and husband Jimmy Miller take their well-stocked pickup truck to a downtown parking lot Monday nights to offer food and clothing to the less fortunate.
'REAL FOOD': How Kelowna’s Mamma Rosa Restaurant has survived for 40 years
October 21, 2022 - 6:00 AM
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In a world where restaurants regularly come and go, Mamma Rosa Restaurant in Kelowna has survived almost 40 years by serving many of the same dishes it started with.
Small businesses brace for cautious holiday shoppers
October 16, 2022 - 7:04 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses are stocking the shelves early this holiday season and waiting to see how many gifts inflation-weary shoppers feel like giving.
Penticton mom 'flabbergasted' that stranger paid for her family's groceries
November 20, 2021 - 2:02 PM

A low-income mother filled up a basket with $30 worth of food earlier this week, even though her budget was in no shape to go emergency grocery shopping, so it was a massive relief when a stranger who she met in line paid the bill.
Okanagan Christmas parties make COVID-19 shift in effort to keep morale up
December 20, 2020 - 6:00 PM

With a lack of social gatherings this Christmas, people are getting creative about how they celebrate the holidays with their workmates.
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THOMPSON: The latest grooming systems for men have gone too far
OPINION Like most folks, I have more stuff squirrelled away in my bathroom drawers and cabinet than I use. A recent inspection found a cologne someone gave me that I don’t like, a prescription drug that expired

Epic cherry season expected in Okanagan and Kamloops
The cherry season in the Southern Interior is set to be the biggest one in a long time thanks to favourable growing conditions, after extreme weather events damaged crops for the past three years. “It looks like it’s going to be

UBCO, TRU study finds cannabis use helps in recovery from hard drugs
A new study from UBC Okanagan and Thompson Rivers University has found that cannabis use can offer benefits to people undergoing treatment for substance use. People living in a residential recovery facility were given supervised amounts of

Why Kelowna's treatment of homeless encampments has changed over the years
The addition of fences, security guards, identification stamps and a lots of cops at the end of March changed the landscape at the homeless tent city along a section of the Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna. Some called it dystopian, others sa

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Police seized bags, ropes, shovels and a blood-stained jacket in Bagabuyo murder investigation
A Kamloops lawyer's first-degree murder trial started slowly Monday as the Crown lawyers presented dozens of exhibits. Bags, ropes, shovels and a blood-stained jacket were among the doze
April 14, 2025 2:05 PM
Court overturns Summerland's efforts to restrict family's FOIs
A BC judge has ruled that a family's efforts to get information from Summerland's town hall were unfairly blocked. When the District of Summerland put strict limits on Brad Besler
April 13, 2025 2:00 PM
Garden of the Trolls must-see hiking destination in Kamloops
Nestled in the Lac du Bois grasslands northeast of Kamloops is a pile of huge boulders with odd, wobbly shapes and pitted with deep dark holes. For hikers following along a trail throu
April 13, 2025 6:00 AM
Prolific Kelowna shoplifter ordered to pay stores back
In an unusual move, a BC judge has attempted to make a prolific Kelowna shoplifter pay back the stores for all the stuff he stole. BC Provincial Court Judge Cathie Heinrichs acknowledged tha
April 13, 2025 7:00 PM
Why Kamloops council won't pay the mayor's legal bills
The mayor of Kamloops hoped in vain council would cover his legal fees for abandoned or dismissed code of conduct investigations. None of them were covered by the city and it has left his la
April 13, 2025 12:00 PM
'Beginnings of colonization': New book on Vernon's O'Keefe Ranch doesn't romanticize history
Okanagan historian Ken Mather spent 20 years living on the O'Keefe Ranch and now, more than 40 years after he first began working there he's penned a book about the historic site. &q
April 14, 2025 6:00 AM
Why Kelowna's treatment of homeless encampments has changed over the years
The addition of fences, security guards, identification stamps and a lots of cops at the end of March changed the landscape at the homeless tent city along a section of the Okanagan Rail Trail in
April 11, 2025 6:00 AM
No guard rail nets Kelowna roofing company $20,000 fine
A Kelowna roofing company has been fined $20,000 for failing to put up guard rails while working on the roof of a two-storey house. According to a March 18 WorkSafeBC penalty notice, JV Roof
April 12, 2025 4:00 PM
Revelstoke ski resort fined $78,000 after worker seriously injured
A Revelstoke ski resort has been fined $78,000 after a staff member sustained serious injuries when the vehicle they were reversing went over an embankment. According to a recently published
April 13, 2025 4:00 PM
iN PHOTOS: Sharp-tailed grouse courtship captured near Kamloops
Sharp-tailed grouse have arguably one of the most entertaining courtship rituals to watch for every spring as the males dance and duke it out to attract the females. The males raise their po
April 14, 2025 4:00 AM

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