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‘Once in a lifetime’ Canada Games come to a close after 17 days of competition
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – The Canada Games are viewed by many as a way to bring the country closer together.
Shortlist announced for patient care tower construction
PENTICTON - A list of six companies with potential to work on the patient care tower at Penticton General Hospital has been whittled down to three, inching the project closer to completion. Phase one of the project is to design, build, partially finance and maintain the new patient care tower for a term of 30...
Health Canada warns about bedbug control products after 2 Alberta children die
EDMONTON – The federal government is warning Canadians of what it calls the "extreme danger" of using unregistered products to fight bedbugs.
Missing, murdered women roundtable agrees to keep discussions going
OTTAWA – It was a day of talks punctuated by powerful symbols.
8 people dead, including gunman, in house-to-house shooting rampage in Missouri
TYRONE, Mo. – TYRONE, Mo. – A man who authorities say may have been unhinged by the death of his ailing mother killed seven people and then took his own life in a house-to-house shooting rampage that wiped out a swath of this tiny town in the Missouri Ozarks.
Navy says Canada’s submarines ready to perform nationally, globally
VICTORIA – The force of the blowback of air from two simulated torpedo launches from Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Victoria sends hats, cameras and notebooks flying, leaving observers gasping in amazement.
Spring into fitness and fun with the latest West Kelowna Recreation Guide
One of the best seasons in the Okanagan is spring and what better way to enjoy it than trying a new program or renewing your registration for a favourite activity found in the Spring 2015 West Kelowna Recreation Guide. With 80 pages packed full of drop-in and registration-based fitness and leisure programs, the rec guide...
Central Okanagan prepares for two more seasons of performing arts
KELOWNA - The Government of Canada will provide funding of $30,000 ($15,000 in 2015-16 and $15,000 in 2016-17) to the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society through the Canada Arts Presentation Fund. This funding will support the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons of the Rotary Centre for the Arts (RCA) Presents Series. The Honourable Ron...
Art gallery displays Mystifying Images Made from Simple Materials
KELOWNA - Will visitors to the new exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery get into heated arguments about what the charcoal drawings represent? Some people might see tubular bells, others might see a maze for a lab rat, or a pinball machine. Or maybe we are looking at an interpretation of an engineering schematic. Don’t...
Twenty-Three Kelowna organizations receive grants
KELOWNA – Twenty-three local organizations have received more than $732,000 in funding from the provincial government through the Community Gaming Grant program. Organizations Receiving Grants: Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs - $191,000 New Opportunities for Women (Now) Canada Society - $87,000 Clubhouse Child Care Centre - $73,700 Central Okanagan Emergency Shelter Society - $66,000 Kinsmen...
Kasugai Gardens opens Sunday for season
KELOWNA - Kasugai Gardens will open Sunday, March 1 for the season. The gardens will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Victoria Day weekend. Throughout the summer months the gardens will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. until Labour Day weekend. Kasugai Gardens provides a tranquil environment featuring traditional...
Wage increase approved for West Kelowna firefighters
WEST KELOWNA - West Kelowna firefighters' wages and property tax bills with both get a bit of a bump over the next few years following the approval of a new collective agreement. West Kelowna council has ratified the new collective agreement between the International Association of Firefighters Local 4457 and the District of West Kelowna....
HEALTHBEAT: Many unanswered questions about e-cigarettes, including use with tobacco products
WASHINGTON – The first peek at a major study of how Americans smoke suggests many use combinations of products, and often e-cigarettes are part of the mix.
Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek’s Spock, dies at 83
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonard Nimoy, the actor known and loved by generations of "Star Trek" fans as the pointy-eared, purely logical science officer Mr. Spock, has died.
Movie shoot in progress in Vernon and Lumby
VERNON - Another film shoot is already two days along in the Okanagan, bringing stars and crew to locations in Vernon and Lumby for the next 16 days. “We are very pleased to have the second film of the year being shot in the second month of the year," Okanagan Film Commission spokesperson Jon Summerland...