News Items tag as: Parks Canada

National park reservation system launches in April
March 18, 2021 - 3:30 PM

Parks Canada is urging campers to be ready for this year’s reservation service as they prepare for an April launch.
'Diversity of views' a highlight of National Park report findings
May 14, 2019 - 4:31 PM

PENTICTON - Parks Canada has wrapped up its consultative process, with an awareness of the many and varied views residents have on a national park reserve in the South Okanagan Similkameen.
Parks Canada extends public consultation period
February 26, 2019 - 7:00 PM

PENTICTON - Parks Canada appears to have heard appeals from South Okanagan residents to extend the public consultation process on the national park reserve proposal.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
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No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
A Kelowna brewery successfully avoided a fine for selling beer to an undercover minor, but it did fire the employee. The province's liquor regulator decided against handing down a $7,000 fine after an 18-year-old bought a six-pack from

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

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way for development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

National park reservation system launches in April