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.
More ...

THOMPSON: Is dining etiquette a thing of the past?
OPINION I read a recent article that tried to make a case for getting rid of some rules of dining etiquette. Those rules, said the writer, “are made to be broken.” The writer’s logic seems flawed, at

$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

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

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