News Items tag as: Armstrong

iN PHOTOS: Colourful hot air balloons raise spirits in North Okanagan
September 12, 2023 - 6:00 AM

Armstrong resident Kelsey Ferguson Bernard was out walking her basset hounds early on a Saturday morning a couple of days ago when she saw bright hot air balloons drifting overhead.
Tickets on sale for North Okanagan’s first sunflower festival
July 28, 2021 - 7:00 PM

The founders of an Abbotsford tulip festival will be testing residents’ desire for flower festivals in the North Okanagan next month with sunflowers.
Armstrong fair fun gets underway
September 02, 2015 - 8:30 AM

ARMSTRONG - The Armstrong fair gets into full swing today.
Surprise gives Armstrong woman the 'wedding of a lifetime'
July 21, 2015 - 9:00 PM

THE WHOLE TOWN WAS BASICALLY IN ON IT
Appeal date set for June 2016 for man convicted in Taylor Van Diest murder
June 18, 2015 - 1:48 PM

ARMSTRONG - A trial date has been set to hear the appeal of a British Columbia man who was found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old woman four years ago.
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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 first week of April 2025. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones

No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
A Kelowna brewery successfully avoided a fine for selling beer to an undercover minor, but it did fire the employee. The province's liquor regulator decided against handing down a $7,000 fine after an 18-year-old bought a six-pack from

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

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way for development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

iN PHOTOS: Colourful hot air balloons raise spirits in North Okanagan