News Items tag as: KLMAY2022

Flood warnings and watches issued for Thompson-Okanagan
July 04, 2022 - 8:15 AM

Flood warnings and high streamflow advisories were issued at 6 a.m. today, July 4, for Okanagan and Similkameen creeks and rivers.
Okanagan luxury home buyers taking a breather amid inflation, rising interest rates
July 03, 2022 - 7:00 AM
iNhome

While the ultra-rich really don’t care what interest rates are doing when it comes to buying homes, those aren’t the people buying into the relatively modest luxury market in the Okanagan.
A dozen Interior Health residents still dying every week from COVID-19
July 01, 2022 - 11:00 AM

While the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us, it has almost disappeared from the headlines.
Don't be afraid to fly the flag this Canada Day
July 01, 2022 - 7:00 AM

This Canada Day holiday is sparking cries to reclaim the Canadian flag from the so-called “freedom movement" that occupied Ottawa last winter and continues to parade and demonstrate throughout the country.
Yes, June had a lot of rain but it wasn't record-setting in Kamloops, Okanagan
June 30, 2022 - 7:00 PM

For all those weather watchers who felt June was unusually damp this year, they are mostly right.
'Freedom' supporters planning Canada Day events in the Southern Interior
June 30, 2022 - 6:00 PM

The word “freedom” has taken on a special meaning in Canada since the “freedom convoy” descended on Ottawa last winter and “freedom” rallies and convoys became common across the country.
Transit, not a second crossing, is the solution for Central Okanagan's bridge, highways: planners
June 30, 2022 - 7:00 AM
iNwheels

It’s not that local governments expect everyone to stop driving as congestion continues to grow on Central Okanagan roadways.
Wildfires last summer meant big bucks for West Kelowna senior staff
June 30, 2022 - 6:30 AM

Two of West Kelowna’s top officials pocketed and extra $73,000 in 2021, largely due to wildfire duty.
Tom Dyas makes another pitch to be Kelowna's mayor
June 29, 2022 - 7:00 PM

Tom Dyas is running to be the next mayor of Kelowna.
Man who threw molotov cocktail into Kelowna forest out of jail
June 29, 2022 - 2:30 PM

A Kelowna man, who has been in jail for the past 11 months for trying to light bushes on fire in Kelowna’s Glenmore neighbourhood, has been given a conditional sentence of 223 days.
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A look back at the glory days of celery production in the Okanagan
Celery isn’t grown commercially locally these days, but once upon a time there were acres of it growing in the Okanagan. Kelowna resident Domenic Rampone’s family immigrated from northern Italy to Kelowna in 1893 where they grew

North Thompson woman refused home insurance over cannabis plants loses human rights case
A North Thompson woman has lost a legal battle against more than a dozen insurance companies after she was refused coverage because she grew medical cannabis on her property. According to a May 2 BC Human Rights Tribunal decision, form

Dispute between Vernon neighbours over tree pruning ends with legal challenge
A neighbourly dispute about overhanging tree branches has left a Vernon senior housing society in the red after it failed in its legal challenge to get its neighbour to pay for pruning. According to a May 27 BC Civil Resolution Tribunal dec

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