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Top News - Kamloops, Merritt and Areas

  • Renovating to Sell Your Home

    The housing market throughout the Okanagan Valley continues an upward trend prompted by a tight housing supply and rising interest rates. New buyers are taking advantage of mortgage rates now before the Bank of Canada increases them again. Demand for new housing has slowed despite some selling their homes in the Lower Mainland and moving to the Okanagan to enjoy the high quality of life offered here.
  • iN PHOTOS: At $7M this could be most expensive house ever sold in Peachland

    Despite a real estate market that has cooled off considerably this year after a wild 2021, some people are still buying very expensive homes at near the asking price.
  • PST hike on gas-fuelled home heating appliances leaves B.C. Interior out in the cold

    B.C. plans to raise the provincial sales tax on home heating appliances powered by fossil fuels and remove it on heat pumps, something a heating and cooling profession in Kamloops calls unfair.
  • Some electricity restored in Texas, but water woes grow

    AUSTIN, Texas - Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold this week. But the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, where many people still lacked safe drinking water.
  • iN VIDEO: Millions in U.S. endure record cold without power; at least 16 dead

    OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. - A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather claimed more lives Tuesday, including three people found dead after a tornado hit a seaside town in North Carolina and four family members who perished in a Houston-area house fire while using a fireplace to stay warm.
  • The burning question: What pollution and health threats are lurking in wood stoves?

    If the stereotype associated with country living holds fast, folks in Canada’s small towns and rural communities should be relishing the benefits of fresh, clean air.
  • California wine country adapting to annual wildfire threat

    SAN FRANCISCO - Harvest season in Northern California's wine country is what dream weddings are made of: ripe grapevines and golden sunsets provide ceremonies an alluring backdrop that every year draws millions of visitors.
  • Kamloops wood stove and fireplace rebate program is back

    KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents may be eligible to receive a rebate for replacing their old, smoky wood stoves with cleaner technology.
  • UPDATE: Strong California quake causes injuries, damage

    NAPA, Calif. - The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years sent scores of people to hospitals, ignited fires, damaged multiple historic buildings and knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in California's wine country on Sunday.
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