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Money spent on refugees a hot topic at upcoming Kelowna immigration symposium
September 23, 2015 - 9:00 PM

KELOWNA – The effects of immigration on the Okanagan will be a topic of discussion at an upcoming two-day symposium at Okanagan College and UBC Okanagan this weekend.
Merritt demonstrators fight biosolids, arguing sewage sludge unsafe
September 23, 2015 - 6:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - Groups against the dumping of treated human waste near Merritt are taking their case to the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, underway in Vancouver.
Five years after man's death on Shuswap Lake and still no resolution to trial
September 23, 2015 - 4:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - A Shuswap houseboat crash five years ago is still making its way through Kamloops Supreme Court and today it was put over once again to another date for decision.
UPDATE: Young boy dies in quadding accident in Celista
September 23, 2015 - 3:57 PM

NORTH SHUSWAP - A young boy died earlier this month after the all-terrain vehicle he was riding flipped.
UPDATE: Inmate dies at Kamloops jail; third in less than a year
September 23, 2015 - 3:52 PM

KAMLOOPS - Another inmate has died at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre, making it the third to occur in a year.
ELECTION 2015: Where the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo candidates will be squaring off before the election
September 23, 2015 - 2:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - If you’re looking for an opportunity to grill the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo candidates running in October’s federal election, be sure to mark these dates on your calendar.
Food bank fall harvest begins in Central Okanagan
September 23, 2015 - 2:30 PM

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - Local farmers and orchardists are in the middle of harvest and so is the Central Okanagan Community Food Bank.
Chase RCMP busy with thefts, fire and traffic
September 23, 2015 - 2:00 PM

CHASE - Drunk driver, collisions, theft and fire keep Chase RCMP officers on their toes.
Harlem Globetrotters hitting the court in Penticton
September 23, 2015 - 1:00 PM

PENTICTON - The world famous Globetrotters will show off their basketball skills in Penticton as part of their 90th world tour celebration next year.
First Nation groups officially file title claim against portion of Ajax Mine site
September 23, 2015 - 11:43 AM

KAMLOOPS - About a week after mining company KGHM submitted its provincial environmental application for the proposed Ajax Mine project, two bands have officially filed land title papers with the B.C. Supreme Court.
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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

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