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Brie Welton
Brie is a recent graduate from UBC Okanagan where she studied English and French while managing the campus newspaper. After working as an intern reporter for the summer of 2019 in her home-town of Kelowna, she rejoined the InfoNews team in March 2020 and moved to Kamloops.
Her interests range from food features and artist profiles to politics, crime and minority issues. She has a passion for story-telling and aspires to one day become a full-time court reporter.
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– This story was originally published June 27, 2020. While the Lac du Bois grasslands…
iN VIDEO: Police looking for woman who spat at Penticton liquor store worker when asked to wear mask
Police are looking for a Penticton woman after she allegedly spat on a liquor store…
Win the Okanagan Spirits lottery and take your whisky home
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Why Okanagan Spirits went to great lengths to create new colour-changing gin
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Kamloops’s first craft distillery so close you can taste it
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