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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THOMPSON: America is making a choice between democracy or authoritarian rule
OPINION America is awaiting a call from voters, the election results. It is a reprieve of sorts, much like a governor’s last minute call in an old movie sparing a condemned innocent prisoner from execution. The

Popular spots to enjoy ramen in Okanagan, Kamloops
Fall is here and the weather is turning colder so many are turning to comfort foods in the Okanagan and Kamloops. A warm, hearty soup is a definite go-to during the chilly seasons and one particular style, ramen, is becoming more and more p

Study says city policies drastically increase housing costs in Kamloops, Okanagan
A research paper explored how municipal government policies increase the cost of housing in B.C., and it showed that 40 per cent of a home’s cost in Kamloops and the Okanagan was due to the “zoning effect”. While at Simon

Kelowna trailer park residents face 'demoviction' from their affordable homes
Walking into Central Mobile Home Park in Kelowna you see well kept yards, towering evergreen trees, people walking their dogs and chatting with neighbours. The community of mostly seniors is slated to razed to make space for redevelopment but the

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