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Kamloops hosting 2025 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships
May 13, 2024 - 10:35 AM

The 2025 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships is going to take place in Kamloops.
Kamloops, Kelowna focus of pilot program for wildfire, flooding evacuees
May 03, 2024 - 6:00 PM

A new program to help wildfire evacuees find hotel rooms in B.C. is starting out in Kamloops and Kelowna this summer.
Kelowna to host the Canadian Country Music awards in 2025
April 16, 2024 - 10:02 AM

The Canadian Country Music Association has announced Kelowna will host the 2025 Country Music Week and Canadian Country Music Association Awards.
Famous Martin Mars water bomber finds forever home
March 28, 2024 - 4:30 PM

The iconic Hawaii Martin Mars water bomber is going to be preserved at the British Columbia Aviation Museum.
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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 March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones

Kelowna distillery to pay former employee $60,000 in unpaid wages
A Kelowna distillery failed in its bid to overturn a ruling that would have it pay more than $60,000 to a former employee in unpaid overtime. Forbidden Spirits appealed the decision last year, but it didn't have enough evidence to convi

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

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

Kamloops hosting 2025 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships