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School trustees promise higher graduation rates in Central Okanagan
January 29, 2015 - 6:33 PM

KELOWNA - Getting them to school is easy. Getting them to graduate is a bit tougher. That’s the conclusion of the student graduation and readiness report Central Okanagan school trustees will soon receive from staff.
UPDATE: Name released in Hwy. 33 fatality
January 29, 2015 - 3:58 PM

KELOWNA - The name of the 21-year-old Kelowna woman who died Wednesday afternoon after her vehicle went off the road and down a steep embankment has been released.
Vandals spray paint car, garage door in Glenrosa
January 29, 2015 - 1:45 PM

WEST KELOWNA - Someone is tagging personal property with spray paint in the Glenrosa neighbourhood of West Kelowna.
Cat loses leg after getting caught in trap
January 29, 2015 - 11:10 AM

PENTICTON – Phoenix the cat has definitely used up one of his nine lives after he was caught in a leg hold trap in Penticton.
Kelowna councillor in hospital with lung infection
January 29, 2015 - 11:08 AM

KELOWNA - Kelowna city councillor Charlie Hodge has been admitted to Kelowna General Hospital suffering from pneumonia.
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THOMPSON: Consider the message in America poet Amanda Gorman's 'An Ode We Owe'
OPINION If ever you doubt yourself - or others - especially today’s youth, take a deep breath and don’t give up. It’s easy to look about and feel discouraged, even hopeless at what we face today.

Popular Mediterranean restaurant leaves Penticton for Summerland
A popular shawarma restaurant has wrapped up operations in Penticton and started a new chapter in Summerland. Sheanne Moskaluk, who lives in Naramata, has no problem travelling a little further to Summerland for some of her favourite food a

Lawsuit: California utility targeted Asians in pot searches
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Extraordinary use of electricity has long been a telltale sign of illegal grow houses producing thousands of marijuana plants hidden in seemingly ordinary homes. But a lawsuit filed by a data privacy watchdog

Battle lines being drawn over Kelowna’s newest nightspot
Whether it’s a nightclub or a “whole new way” of enjoying a music hall is at the core of what could end up as a legal battle over the Revelry, Kelowna’s newest entertainment facility. “Should a lawsuit be filed

School trustees promise higher graduation rates in Central Okanagan