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Organigram's new CEO opens up about company's future, U.S. pot legalization
November 08, 2021 - 8:00 PM

For much of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leaders of Canada's biggest cannabis companies have spouted lofty ambitions linked to a U.S. pot market they strongly believe is on the brink of federal legalization and will be their ticket to profitability.
Kamloops, Okanagan retailers ask customers to shop early for Christmas due to supply chain problems
October 23, 2021 - 6:30 AM

Some businesses in the Thompson-Okanagan have stocked up and are urging customers to get a head start on their Christmas shopping due to ongoing supply chain disruptions.
Federal Election 2021: Kelowna-Lake Country likely to stay Conservative despite controversy
September 06, 2021 - 6:00 PM

Kelowna-Lake Country may be the most interesting Okanagan race to watch in the upcoming federal election.
Home built around disabled granddaughter lost near Vernon to wildfire
August 26, 2021 - 6:30 AM

After losing their family home near Vernon to the White Rock Lake wildfire earlier this month, Sandy and Dean Brandt, as well as their granddaughter Bella, don’t know where to start to rebuild.
Brenda Creek wildfire expected to grow; crews dousing hotspots near power line
July 20, 2021 - 12:58 PM

The 450-hectare wildfire burning northwest of Peachland, near Highway 97 C, continues to get regionwide attention due to its potential for further growth and connection to a power source for 65,000 area residents.
Restaurateurs grapple with rising food costs, menu prices expected to rise
June 20, 2021 - 10:50 AM

Restaurants across the country have been grappling with rising food prices since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but for Blair Lebsack, some of the most shocking increases have been for his restaurant’s less flashy ingredients.
Alberta sets sights on expanding forest products harvest as high prices drive returns
May 30, 2021 - 12:09 PM

CALGARY - A drive to increase Alberta’s forest harvest as lumber prices hover at record heights is allowing members of a northern First Nation to become resource owners as well as timber-gathering contractors, says the leader of the Bigstone Cree Nation.
Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are getting divorced
May 03, 2021 - 4:23 PM

SEATTLE - Bill and Melinda Gates said Monday that they are divorcing but would keep working together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world.
Free rides, joints and beer: Incentives are added to US vaccine drive
April 29, 2021 - 9:00 PM

Free beer, pot and doughnuts. Savings bonds. A chance to win an all-terrain vehicle. Places around the U.S. are offering incentives to try to energize the nation’s slowing vaccination drive and get Americans to roll up their sleeves.
Author pens the baffling story of the 'Bushman of the Shuswap'
March 23, 2021 - 8:00 PM

Two decades ago, he grabbed national headlines and was nicknamed the "Bushman of the Shuswap," a fugitive living rough in a cave deep in the bush, raiding cottages for supplies and travelling by canoe only at night.
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Vernon youth becomes classic Canadian meme after shovelling driveway wearing only shorts and boots
- This story was originally published Nov. 21, 2021. The mother of a Vernon 12-year-old who captured some social media attention last week for shovelling their driveway wearing only shorts and boots says “you have to laugh.”

Proposed new brewery will extend Kelowna’s growing Brewery District
Railside Brewing is hoping to open a taproom and patio less than a kilometre from the growing Brewery District in Kelowna’s North End. The plan is to renovate a building at 1184 and 1186 High Rd. It’s near Gordon Drive and where

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