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'We're just hanging on:' Rocky start to Canada's summer patio season puts restaurants on edge
May 21, 2023 - 6:00 PM

HALIFAX - Restaurants in Canada are being slammed with a daunting mix of soaring costs, staffing issues and capacity problems, making a slow start to the critical summer patio season a near crisis for some eateries across the country, industry experts say.
iN VIDEO: Lytton Creek wildfire destroys structures, home northwest of Merritt
August 20, 2021 - 12:20 PM

An Abbotsford farmer with property outside of Merritt has lost multiple structures and a home due to the Lytton Creek wildfire.
Not kidding: Shuswap woman heartbroken after pet pygmy goat goes missing
February 14, 2020 - 11:40 AM

Eugene the beloved pygmy goat has been missing from his home in the Shuswap for more than a week.
'Not a lot left:' Ranch near Waterton burned up by wildfire
September 13, 2017 - 9:37 AM

WATERTON, Alta. - Members of a southern Alberta ranching family are leaning on each other for support after a wildfire swept through the property just outside Waterton Lakes National Park.
Windstorm creates crisis at popular South Okanagan petting farm
August 27, 2016 - 10:30 AM

PENTICTON - A popular tourist attraction and animal shelter in the South Okanagan is at a crossroads following losses from last Sunday’s windstorm.
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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 fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

Kelowna distillery to pay former employee $60,000 in unpaid wages
A Kelowna distillery failed in its bid to overturn a ruling that would have it pay more than $60,000 to a former employee in unpaid overtime. Forbidden Spirits appealed the decision last year, but it didn't have enough evidence to convi

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

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

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Why some Kelowna streets still have gravel shoulders
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Kamloops RCMP ask for public’s help to find missing woman
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BC Ferries says it had no involvement in 6 sick passengers on Saturday
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Top News - Vernon, Salmon Arm, Revelstoke and Areas

'We're just hanging on:' Rocky start to Canada's summer patio season puts restaurants on edge

iN VIDEO: Lytton Creek wildfire destroys structures, home northwest of Merritt

Not kidding: Shuswap woman heartbroken after pet pygmy goat goes missing

'Not a lot left:' Ranch near Waterton burned up by wildfire

Windstorm creates crisis at popular South Okanagan petting farm

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