News Items tag as: Okanagan Observatory

Thieves steal telescopes worth $11,000 during Okanagan Observatory break-in
August 22, 2024 - 11:31 AM

Thieves broke into a sea can at the Okanagan Observatory near Kelowna on Wednesday stealing more than $11,000 worth of telescopes and other items.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

$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

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

Organizers of B.C. trans history conference blame Trump for attendance slump
The chair of transgender studies at the University of Victoria is worried about attendance at this year's Moving
March 26, 2025 9:00 PM
Trump announces 25 per cent tariff on all auto imports to the U.S.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all au
March 26, 2025 7:44 PM
Kelowna has more hate crime than Kamloops as incidents increase across Canada
Police reported hate crimes have been rising steadily in Canada over the past several years, and Kamloops had signif
March 26, 2025 7:00 PM
Police name serial killer victim as Ashlee Shingoose, Kinew promises landfill search
WINNIPEG - For years, she was known as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, an Indigenous woman who disappeared fro
March 26, 2025 6:58 PM
$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 inci
March 26, 2025 6:00 PM

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