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iN PHOTOS: Home storage that goes well beyond the utilitarian
May 18, 2022 - 9:00 PM
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You might think of storage cabinets as utilitarian. But designers are forever fascinated with how a simple cupboard can be built, dressed and adorned in ways that showcase craftsmanship and inventiveness.
Seeing the forest for the trees: searching for solutions in B.C.'s Kispiox Valley
May 11, 2021 - 6:00 AM

Clear plastic bags hang from small spigots plugged into birch trunks in a mixed stand of deciduous and coniferous trees on a hillside above the Kispiox River in northwest B.C. Denzel Sutherland-Wilson and his 19-year-old niece, Hailey Wilson, pour the birch water collected overnight from five trees into a 20-litre bucket, explaining they’ve been doing this every day for a couple of weeks.
Making Kelowna’s homeless camp more liveable
December 10, 2019 - 4:00 PM

As the group of homeless people sleeping in tents in Kelowna’s North End enter their second week in the cold, they welcome the support of the volunteers helping them cope with a rather unpleasant 'home' life.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

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Top News - Penticton, South Okanagan & Similkameen Areas

iN PHOTOS: Home storage that goes well beyond the utilitarian

Seeing the forest for the trees: searching for solutions in B.C.'s Kispiox Valley

Making Kelowna’s homeless camp more liveable

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