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Project combats unhealthy drinking habits at Thompson-Okanagan post-secondary schools
February 29, 2016 - 4:30 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Post secondary schools around the Thompson-Okanagan are taking a hard look at promoting healthier drinking habits among students.
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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

$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

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

Gas prices falling in Okanagan, Kamloops thanks to carbon tax cut
The gas prices you’re seeing in Kamloops and the Okanagan aren’t an April Fool’s Day prank.
April 01, 2025 11:02 AM
Democrats push vote on tariffs targeting Canada, Trump calls for Republican support
WASHINGTON - Democrats in the U.S. Senate are moving forward on a resolution to block sweeping tariffs targeting Canada
April 01, 2025 10:14 AM
B.C. ends its carbon tax on consumers after marathon debate in legislature
VICTORIA - British Columbians are facing a future without a consumer carbon tax for the first time in 17 years, after t
April 01, 2025 9:08 AM
New Trump tariffs expected this week loom over the federal election campaign
OTTAWA - The prospect of another wave of U.S. tariffs this week loomed over the federal election Tuesday as another bus
April 01, 2025 7:54 AM
Want to book an August long weekend BC Parks campsite? The countdown is on
The countdown is on for campers waiting to reserve a provincial site for the upcoming August long weekend and the co
April 01, 2025 6:00 AM

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