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West Kelowna singer named best new artist at Indigenous Music Awards
September 15, 2015 - 9:00 PM

WEST KELOWNA - A local First Nation singer and songwriter has won Best New Artist at the Indigenous Music Awards in Winnipeg.
New charity funds arts programs for Oliver students
September 15, 2015 - 8:00 PM

PENTICTON - A new charity promises to help fund arts programs for children in the South Okanagan.
From meth use to mischief to spitting on a cop cruiser, Penticton RCMP again kept busy
September 15, 2015 - 6:30 PM

PENTICTON - It was a week filled with drugs, vandalism, guns and theft for members of the Penticton RCMP.
Locals winners named for Aboriginal Business Awards
September 15, 2015 - 5:04 PM

THOMPSON-OKANGAN - Some local aboriginal entrepreneurs are coming away from the B.C. Aboriginal Business Awards with wins this week.
Commemorative shirts to remember 2015 wildfire season in South Okanagan
September 15, 2015 - 2:47 PM

PENTICTON - A new fundraising effort will help remember the 2015 wildfire season in the South Okanagan and Rock Creek areas while raising money for local firefighters.
UPDATE: Owner reunited with artificial leg found on Penticton street
September 15, 2015 - 10:09 AM

UPDATE: 3:20 P.M., SEPT. 15, 2015
Snow on the Okanagan Connector
September 15, 2015 - 8:40 AM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Drivers heading out on the highway should be prepared for a bit of snow at the higher elevations this morning.
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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

West Kelowna singer named best new artist at Indigenous Music Awards