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Lowriding is more than just cars. It's about family and culture for Mexican Americans
October 20, 2024 - 3:00 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — For Luis Martinez, competing in lowriding bike and car competitions is about more than glory and bragging rights. The lowrider clubs in the Chicago area have become like one big family and a source of mutual support.
Five projects you need to know about as BC’s oil and gas sector heats up
March 17, 2024 - 2:30 PM
Spiritualists, Japanese warlords and mispronounced words: Where the Okunaakan got its names
January 08, 2023 - 9:00 AM

When Europeans explored, then settled, much of North America they ignored the names given to creeks and lakes by the First Nation inhabitants.
112-year-old Kamloops house saved from demolition on the move
March 05, 2022 - 2:28 PM
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A 112-year-old Kamloops house has been saved from demolition and its new owner says the price point and its heritage made him decide to preserve a piece of Kamloops history.
New report suggests Okanagan lakes could flood every 20 years if we do nothing
February 03, 2022 - 7:30 AM

New mapping being done for the Okanagan Basin Water Board shows that the one-in-500-year flood that happened in the Okanagan in 2017 could happen as frequently as every 20 years if no controls are put in place.
This company wants to make it rain on B.C. wildfires
July 21, 2021 - 6:00 AM

There are many tools used by B.C. Wildfire in battling hundreds of forest fires in B.C.
Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea
January 10, 2021 - 10:09 AM

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesia's capital.
Great white tagging program off N.S. stirs debate over treatment of sharks
October 14, 2019 - 8:00 PM

LUNENBURG, N.S. - Enthusiastic scientists aboard the research vessel MV Ocearch pumped their fists as a voice crackled over the radio announcing the expedition had hooked its 11th great white shark this fall off Nova Scotia.
Montreal researchers use willows to decontaminate polluted soil, groundwater
May 21, 2018 - 9:00 PM

MONTREAL - In an east-end Montreal neighbourhood, a polluted piece of former industrial land has become a garden.
Sleeping crew member likely cause of tug crash off B.C. coast: U.S. report
December 05, 2017 - 8:31 AM

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says the second mate of a tugboat fell asleep before it ran aground off the coast of British Columbia last year and spilled thousands of litres of fuel.
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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 second week of February 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall J

$5M in provincial funding to protect Okanagan’s tree fruit from extreme weather
The Okanagan tree fruit industry was hit hard by extreme weather last year and the provincial government is providing $5 million to help orchardists prepare for future extreme cold weather events. The $5 million Tree Fruit Climate Resilienc

BC weed store with 'no babies' policy avoids fine for underage sale
A BC weed store which wouldn't let anyone under 19 enter the premises, including babies, has managed to avoid a $7,000 fine after it sold cannabis to a minor. According to a recently published June 21, 2024 BC Liquor and Cannabis Regula

Why a TNRD director and former Tobiano owner is suing the golf community
The regional district director who oversees Tobiano is in suing the golf resort community over his failed efforts to build a home there. A trial spurred by Thompson Nicola Regional District director Michael Grenier started late last month a

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