News Items tag as: high tech

Salmon Arm designer of robotic mushroom pickers expects to create hundreds of jobs
March 24, 2021 - 6:30 AM

At a time when COVID-19 has made the concept of working from home so popular, Mike Boudreau, founder of TechBrew Robotics, would rather bring hundreds of new workers to Salmon Arm to work on his mushroom picking robots.
Kelowna's reputation for tech is attracting angel investors as well as entrepreneurs
November 20, 2019 - 6:00 AM

Kelowna is regularly touted as one of the best places to start a new business in Canada.
Kelowna is reaping rewards of dark fibre investment running under city streets
September 01, 2019 - 7:00 AM

KELOWNA - It took almost a decade of slowly burying fibre optic cables under Kelowna city streets before any light was turned on.
Brave entrepreneurs risk having their souls crushed next week in Kelowna
August 16, 2019 - 5:00 PM

KELOWNA - It can be tough to start a new business.
Looking to link up, not hook up? There's almost an app for that
August 01, 2019 - 11:00 AM

KELOWNA - While it only took Bark Chung and her team 54 hours to create the lunchlink.co website, getting the connect-over-lunch app up and running is taking considerably longer.
Kelowna start-up has social conscience built right in
December 04, 2015 - 1:00 PM

KELOWNA - Local non-profits are jumping on a new interactive web platform called Volinspire, the product of a new local start-up created as one of the province’s first community contribution companies.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
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iN PHOTOS: Heated domes provide one-of-a-kind Okanagan winter dining experience
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Unlicensed BC cannabis store loses another appeal
A BC couple who ran an unlicensed cannabis store have lost a legal challenge almost five years after their store was raided. According to a Jan. 15 BC Supreme Court decision, Michelle Vrinder Sikora and Douglas Peter Sikora have launched nu

Kelowna moves to loosen up short-term rental rules
Kelowna city council has decided to loosen up its short-term rental rules after a year of complaints from residents. Council directed staff to draw up new bylaws that align with the provincial short-term rental laws at a meeting yesterday,

Salmon Arm designer of robotic mushroom pickers expects to create hundreds of jobs