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What the Supreme Court decision on marijuana means to a three-year-old Summerland girl
June 12, 2015 - 7:30 PM

KELOWNA – Kyla Williams' family is breathing a sigh of relief this week — they are no longer committing a crime just by giving the three-year-old Summerland girl the medicine she needs.
Be prepared for emergency wildfire evacuations
June 12, 2015 - 2:32 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – With an unusually dry and hot summer forecast for the Thompson-Okanagan this summer, regional districts are urging residents to get prepared in case emergency evacuations become necessary.
Here’s what a Vernon man said to Christy Clark about invasive mussels
June 12, 2015 - 1:27 PM

“IS B.C. NOT WORTH IT TO YOU?”
Vernon city council prepares decades ahead for future highway bypass
June 12, 2015 - 10:34 AM

VERNON - It wouldn’t be built, or required, for another 25 to 65 years, but Vernon council is starting to plan for a potential bypass around the city.
Two fires in two days at Vernon's Becker Park
June 12, 2015 - 10:16 AM

VERNON - Vernon firefighters took swift action dealing with two separate fires in Becker Park over the last couple of days.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
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$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

What the Supreme Court decision on marijuana means to a three-year-old Summerland girl