Jesse Tomas

“It's not about what you know, it's about what you enjoy.”

"Canada Shore" features a group of 10 young people spending the summer living in a mansion in Kelowna and partying in the city.

"It has escalated beyond reason over the Tumbler Ridge tragedy."

Shovelling is one thing residents in the Okanagan and Kamloops didn't have to to much this winter.

Landscape and wildlife photographer Greg Reely captured birds and horses around Oxbows Trail in Osoyoos and Oliver.

Do any of these numbers surprise you?

“With another two or three months left for snow accumulation, seasonal snowpacks can still change significantly based on weather patterns through the remainder of the season.”

Salmon Arm Speed skating siblings Laura and Daniel Hall are sharpening their skates and skier Elena Gaskell of Vernon is getting ready for some airtime.

Within the millions of pages of Epstein files released so far Kelowna is mentioned in connection to real estate and a jetliner.

Some people think the Olympics is about the world coming together, when in reality it’s about how many creative ways we’ve found to send people down a mountainside or over a sheet of ice.

Get a dose of winter without donning your hat and mitts.

“There is obviously a lot of strong views and a lot of discussion that individuals would like to have around this particular item.”

A flag raising can get controversial.

“It's exciting. It makes me want to get up in the morning.”

You've never seen an outhouse move this fast. Actually, you generally don't see outhouses that move at all.

Decommissioning the Princeton stretch of the trail is going to take around two to three years once it starts in the spring.

“One of the things we know about the crime statistics is they’re not really a very accurate representation of what’s actually happening.”

“We can stand up for business owners and for vulnerable individuals.”

“You want to be nice for the positive change, but we got to be realistic that this has to be maintained.”

A large number of British Columbians surveyed said they don't have adequate access to health care.

Some of the best para snowboard athletes were tearing up the slopes.

“We'll see cooler temperatures at the higher elevations and possibility of snow this weekend at the higher elevations, but not really true winter conditions.”

“By expanding curbside recycling to include flexible plastics and non-deposit glass bottles and jars, we’re making it more convenient for Central Okanagan residents to recycle these materials and keep them out of landfills and nature.”

To break up the doom and gloom of the news cycle, we collected some figures to quantify what local researchers are doing to give us some hope.