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CENTRAL OKANAGAN - It's getting nice outside and with more drivers leaving their dens for the open road RCMP traffic enforcement operations are ramping up to catch those who drive faster than the posted speed limits. A few hours were spent on the new section of Highway 97 between Oyama and Winfield Sunday afternoon, March...

SAN FRANCISCO – Make calls, read email, control music, manage Instagram photos, keep up with your workout, pay for groceries, open your hotel room door. CEO Tim Cook says you can do it all from your wrist with Apple Watch — for 18 hours a day. That's how long the battery will last.

TORONTO - Canada's largest supermarket chain has big plans for expansion this year, as it increases its footprint in the competitive grocery market. Loblaw Companies Ltd. says it will build 50 new stores and renovate or improve more than 100 existing stores in 2015. The additions will be across the country, and Loblaw's estimates it...
KELOWNA - What began as a study to figure out how Interior Health nurse practitioners could be better incorporated into the health system has turned into three instructional videos for the public to help them understand the role of NPs. The study, conducted by Interior Health and the School of Nursing at UBC Okanagan, was...

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Camping enthusiasts can set their alarms for the 9 a.m. opening of the online camping reserve system, Sunday, March 15. The interactive reservation website displays availability, layout and amenities for 115 front country campgrounds in 99 provincial parks. Reservations can also be made on the go using smartphones, but you aren't limited to...

ATLANTA – A Canadian has been charged after computer hackers stole a whopping one billion email addresses from U.S. marketing companies in what authorities described Friday as one of the largest digital data breaches in history.

WASHINGTON – The bad news for any Canadian politician inspired by Hillary Clinton to set up a do-it-yourself email system is that it could potentially involve the Mounties, handcuffs, and a two-year sojourn in the slammer.

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama has some less-than-laudatory words for Canada's oil industry in a new example of his increasingly critical take on the oilsands.

KAMLOOPS – Getting pie-eyed on hard liquor and repeatedly driving long distances on B.C. highways has landed a 41-year-old alcoholic behind bars for three months.

CALGARY – An Alberta judge has ruled that there is enough evidence to send a man accused in Calgary's worst mass murder to trial.
KELOWNA - An engineering professor with a penchant for designing lighter and stronger aerospace materials has been named UBC Okanagan’s Researcher of the Year. Associate Professor Abbas Milani of the School of Engineering was recognized at a gala event wrapping up UBC’s Celebrate Research Week on Friday. Milani, who joined UBC in 2007, has designed...

ROGERS PASS, B.C. – An abandoned railway line is all that remains at the summit of the Rogers Pass to mark the spot where 58 men lost their lives in what's believed to be Canada's deadliest avalanche.

OKANAGAN - A couple local school districts will each get a slice of a provincial $5 million pie to direct toward energy saving initiatives in their schools. Vernon School District 22 will receive $157,000 while Central Okanagan School District 23 will see $159,960 from the Ministry of Education's Carbon Neutral Program. Both will use the...

VANCOUVER – A British Columbia man accused of plotting to attack the provincial legislature on Canada Day pleaded with an undercover officer to give him explosives, promising that the alleged plan was coming "from his heart."

WEST KELOWNA - The public is doing a great job phoning in tips about the red pickup truck described in the attempted child luring case in West Kelowna, but RCMP really need help getting the licence plate number and name of the driver. The West Kelowna detachment has been inundated with tips about the red...
Kelowna residents who wish to be notified of pesticide spraying on residential properties adjacent to their own have until March 13 to sign up for the City of Kelowna’s pesticide notification registry. Registrants are notified by commercial spray operators the day before or the same day as the pesticide is applied to abutting residential properties....
KELOWNA - If you live within the Regional District of Central Okanagan Electoral Areas and are interested in your community, the Regional District would like to hear from you. Communications Officer Bruce Smith says “We’re currently looking for volunteer members to serve on the Environmental Advisory Commission and the Central Okanagan East and Central Okanagan...
KELOWNA - From March 9th through the 31st, sections of the Mission Creek Greenway will be periodically closed for pruning and vegetation maintenance. The Regional District of Central Okanagan apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause and asks for their safety that Greenway users please obey any barricades, signs and flag people and stay out...
PENTICTON - The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen will have the information for citizens displayed at the Canadian Home Builders Association South Okanagan Home and Renovation show March 7 and 8 at the South Okanagan Event Centre in Penticton. Regional District staff and Directors will be onsite to help citizens better understand the demolition waste process,...

OTTAWA – The man who gunned down a soldier and stormed Parliament Hill last Oct. 22 said his actions were spurred by Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

TORONTO – Rapper Snoop Dogg, former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal and lifestyles guru Martha Stewart are among the celebrities set to skewer Canadian pop star Justin Bieber at his upcoming roast.

VICTORIA – B.C.'s health minister is regulating electronic cigarettes with new legislation that will ban sales to young people and prohibit their use in indoor public spaces and workplaces.

KAMLOOPS – A speedboat was doing doughnuts on a lake in British Columbia's Interior in "pitch-black" conditions and on a moonless, overcast night minutes before a fatal collision in 2010, B.C. Supreme Court has heard.
Construction plans, utility upgrades, paving plans and park improvements for 2015 were outlined by City of Kelowna staff today. More than $90 million will be spent on the design and construction of projects throughout the city, including construction of new amenities and maintenance or upgrading of existing infrastructure. “We conduct this annual presentation for the...