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iN VIDEO: An homage to the tumbling tumbleweeds of Kamloops
July 25, 2024 - 6:00 AM
The unique, desert-like landscapes of Kamloops would not be complete without the tumbling tumbleweeds that roll across the roads and rangelands every fall, lending a true Wild West charm to the city.
Meet the bees that live in those blue shelters in North Okanagan fields
June 30, 2024 - 3:30 PM
People often wonder what those blue huts in farmers’ fields in North Okanagan are for. Those huts usually house an often overlooked alfalfa leafcutting bee.
From frost to drought: Strong start to Okanagan asparagus season despite challenges
May 04, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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It’s finally asparagus season at a North Okanagan farm after cooler spring weather pushed back the predicted start date, and all hands are on deck picking the crunchy green spears.
Opposition to pollution from Kelowna fruit packing plant growing
March 19, 2024 - 4:30 PM
Despite a history of warnings and fines dating back to 2019, the Sandher Fruit Packers plant just outside Kelowna city limits in the Ellison area continues to dump pollutants.
Farmland values drop in Okanagan and stay flat Thompson-Nicola: report
March 14, 2024 - 12:00 PM
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The selling price of Canadian farmland grew by 11.3% last year.
High-tech farming coming to 200 acres of Okanagan orchard
March 06, 2024 - 4:30 PM
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The City of Kelowna is partnering with a tech company to bring drones and robots to the local agricultural industry.
Why there are painted quilt squares on barns and buildings in North Okanagan
September 10, 2023 - 6:00 AM
Enderby resident Laurel Neufeld loves to ride her bicycle or motorbike onto country roads with her camera in search of brightly coloured painted quilt squares on barns throughout the North Okanagan.
iN HOLIDAY: B.C. cranberries from farm to Christmas plate
December 16, 2022 - 6:00 AM
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Ruby red cranberries can be seen floating in bogs on farms in the Lower Mainland during the harvest in the fall, in spectacular splashes of colour.
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THOMPSON: Is dining etiquette a thing of the past?
OPINION I read a recent article that tried to make a case for getting rid of some rules of dining etiquette. Those rules, said the writer, “are made to be broken.” The writer’s logic seems flawed, at
$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC
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
Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro
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B.C. NDP fast-tracking end of consumer carbon tax, Eby says gas to drop 17 cents
British Columbia's government is fast-tracking the end of its consumer carbon tax ahead of the lifting of the federal e
March 31, 2025 12:26 PM
B.C. launches efficiency review of health authorities, starting with PHSA
VICTORIA - British Columbia is reviewing health authority spending to ensure resources go to "critical patient services
March 31, 2025 12:15 PM
U.S. arrests B.C. man, says he smuggled goods to Pakistan's atomic bomb program
SURREY, B.C. - U.S. authorities have arrested a 67-year-old man from Surrey, B.C., accusing him of smuggling banned goo
March 31, 2025 11:48 AM
Markets swing as Canada braces for new wave of U.S. tariffs
WASHINGTON - Markets were rattled Monday by confusion over how U.S. President Donald Trump intends to pursue his global
March 31, 2025 10:03 AM
Carney promises home building program, Poilievre pitches national energy corridor
OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised Monday to get the federal government back into the business of home buildi
March 31, 2025 8:01 AM
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