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The right book can inspire the young readers in your life, from picture books to YA novels
November 23, 2024 - 9:00 PM

It's holiday season, but that doesn't have to mean waiting in long lines for big sales to buy the hottest toy or newest game system. Whether you're a parent, relative, teacher, librarian or just a friend to a young person, consider a book that you can enjoy together.
iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
October 01, 2024 - 12:00 PM

Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the first week of October 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.
A rare orchid survives on a few tracts of prairie. Researchers want to learn its secrets
September 01, 2024 - 9:00 AM

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — On a remote tallgrass prairie in North Dakota, a secretive orchid pokes up from the ground. You'll only find it if you know where to look.
Tired of fighting clover in your lawn? Leave it and love it
August 17, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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Lush clover lawns have grown in popularity in the Okanagan as a drought tolerant alternative to heat damaged golden grass.
'Welcome back': Jasper residents return to homes following devastating wildfire
August 16, 2024 - 2:35 PM

JASPER, ALBERTA, CANADA - More than three weeks after everyone in Jasper had to flee raging wildfires through a curtain of darkness and smoke, some returned Friday morning, greeted by soot-covered tree stumps, Mounties, and long lines of orange traffic cones.
Getting rid of poison ivy is a serious matter. What you should and shouldn't do
July 01, 2024 - 10:30 AM

For all the time I spend digging, planting, pulling and weeding, one would think I’d have some poison ivy horror stories to tell, but I do not. I can’t say for sure whether I’m immune to the rash that tortures so many of my fellow gardeners or if I’ve just been lucky, but one thing is for sure: The plant does pose a serious problem for many who come into contact with it.
‘Treat the land right’: BC farmers search for solutions as another year of drought looms
May 06, 2024 - 6:00 PM

The lines on Eugen Wittwer’s face are like the rings of a tree — they tell the story of a life lived subject to the whims of weather. Under his salt-and-pepper beard, the Swiss-born farmer keeps a warm smile at the ready. Putting a big glass jug into an old pickup truck outside the farmhouse on his family’s sprawling acreage near the village of Telkwa, B.C., he says he needs to milk his dairy cows.
With climate change, drought are lush green lawns a thing of the past in Kamloops, Okanagan?
April 21, 2024 - 7:00 PM

Drought risk, tighter water restrictions and increased wildfire risk are just a few reasons why some residents in the southern Interior are rethinking what their lawns and yards should look like.
BUNNY POOP: Kamloops bunny berry fertilizer raises money for charity
March 20, 2024 - 6:00 AM

A family of gardeners in Kamloops didn’t know just how helpful their adopted bunny Mayo would turn out to be.
Kelowna trucking company tired of being bad guy in clean-up of old sawmill site
March 06, 2024 - 7:00 AM

Ryan Nixon is fed up with being painted as the bad guy in the decades-long effort to clean up the former Russo Sawmill site near the Kelowna airport.
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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 third week of April 2025. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones

Why butchers are making a comeback in B.C.
Being a butcher is much more than standing in a freezer and hacking meat with a knife, and a butchery instructor in Kamloops says the craft is rising in popularity. Corey Davison is an assistant teaching professor in the retail meat process

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

Vernon homeowners to see whopping 10% tax increase
Homeowners in Vernon are set for the highest property tax increase in years with an almost 10% jump when compared to last year. With little debate, Vernon council approved the 9.91% increase – a rate four times that of inflation.

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BC man sues police watchdog over report into Vernon murder
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Kamloops trustee asks fellow school board members to forgo pay in face of budget shortfall
A Kamloops school trustee is proposing elected officials in charge of the region's schools suspend their pay in the face of a budget shortfall and impending staff cuts. Trustee Jodhbir K
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Kelowna man who filmed dozens of people in public washrooms jailed
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Ministry hopes to clear rockslide on Highway 3A north of Keremeos this week
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Salmon Arm RCMP ask for help to find missing person from 23 years ago
Salmon Arm RCMP are asking for the public’s help to track down a man who went missing in the early 2000s. Raymond “Ray” Kohout is a nurse, husband and father of three who h
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Bagabuyo trial: Man recalls lengthy, 'aimless' search to bury body
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