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Heavy smoke blankets Okanagan; the rest of southern B.C. gets smoke haze
August 23, 2015 - 9:56 AM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Smoke from the huge forest fires burning in Washington State pumped into the southern Interior yesterday evening has been trapped in the valleys by a temperature inversion.
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The Okanagan has its own tiny form of alligator
It’s spring and all sorts of cold-blooded creatures are slithering to warm rocks, including a type of lizard with the face of an alligator. The northern alligator lizard is most commonly found near rock faces, said Pete Wise, owner of

Make panzanella salad to celebrate the end of peach and tomato season
Harvest is in full swing now which means last chance for romance with some of your favourite fall ingredients. Peaches are rounding up for the year and so are heirloom tomatoes, so please make this salad as a finale to another wonderful season.

Nearly 1M who died of COVID-19 also illuminated treatment
The nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desp
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Alexie, Pilkey books among most 'challenged' of past decade
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Joe Biden: Vacancy about health law, not court expansion
WILMINGTON, Del. - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants voters to see Republicans’ push for a spe
September 27, 2020 6:00 PM
Okanagan keeps COVID-19 levels under control in latest report, while most of B.C. sees increases
Cases of COVID-19 continue to rise at a high rate throughout the province, but in the most recent report from the B.
September 27, 2020 4:39 PM
NY Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017
President Donald Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, according to a report Sunday in The
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Heavy smoke blankets Okanagan; the rest of southern B.C. gets smoke haze