News Items tag as: business

AI images creating unrealistic demands on Okanagan nail artist
March 25, 2025 - 7:00 AM

Artificial intelligence is quickly creeping into all facets of society and having an effect on small businesses, including a designer nail studio in the Okanagan.
iN PHOTOS: A peek inside a bustling, vintage Kamloops yarn shop
November 01, 2024 - 7:00 AM

Tucked into an industrial park on the outskirts of Kamloops is a small mill filling a big gap in a growing vintage market.
Thompson-Okanagan has lowest employment rate in B.C.
October 31, 2024 - 6:00 PM

The Thompson-Okanagan region has the lowest employment rate in the province, and unemployment is back up to where it was during the pandemic.
Vernon cobbler will fix just about anything to keep the trade alive
September 29, 2024 - 7:00 AM

People travel from Penticton, Kamloops, Salmon Arm and beyond to a cobbler in Vernon to get their shoes fixed.
How a Vernon business was born with help from the Entrepreneur Immigration Program
April 14, 2024 - 6:00 PM
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Satoca Bike is a Vernon business that was born through the Entrepreneur Immigration Program and it serves as a testament to how this program can bring in new businesses as well as new community members.
Vernon-based Kal Tire has new president from outside founding family
March 04, 2024 - 10:40 AM
iNwheels

Vernon-based Kal Tire has a new president from outside the company’s founding family.
Appetite for young Kamloops entrepreneur's sweet baked treats on the rise
December 10, 2023 - 6:00 PM
iNwine

A new baking business is booming in Kamloops, and the father and son team behind it are racing to keep up to demand for their tasty baked treats.
Kelowna aerospace company will provide maintenance for Canada's new spy planes
December 01, 2023 - 12:00 PM

A Kelowna-based aerospace company will be maintaining the RCAF's new surveillance planes the federal government is buying from Boeing.
Impacts from crime, social disorder on the rise in Kamloops: business survey
November 15, 2023 - 5:30 PM

Criminality and social disruptions in Kamloops continue to cost businesses time and money as they struggled to deal with trespassing, vandalism, theft and public defecation.
One revenue source Thompson-Okanagan cities won't even consider
November 28, 2022 - 6:30 AM

Local governments have limited ability to raise money to run their towns and cities.
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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

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

Kelowna proposes new protections for tenants impacted by 'demovictions' by developers
Kelowna is in a constant state of redevelopment and tenants who get the short end of the stick could be getting some more protection from the city. On Monday, Kelowna city council will hear some ideas about how to protect tenants who are ge

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