News Items tag as: Silver Star Mountain Resort 2018

Big White on target to be first ski resort open in Okanagan
November 21, 2018 - 11:13 AM

Ski conditions at Big White Ski Resort are listed as “marginal” but the hill will open with limited lifts and runs tomorrow.
Head up a mountain to beat the Okanagan heat
August 07, 2018 - 1:38 PM

VERNON - If the summer heat around the Okanagan is getting too much for you, but retreating inside isn't your idea of fun, Silver Star Mountain Resort is tempting potential visitors by pointing out temperatures at the summit are 10 degrees cooler than in the valley.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
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Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

Big White on target to be first ski resort open in Okanagan