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Two Kamloops teens are putting dreams of a clean hometown into action
KAMLOOPS – Two Kamloops teens are tired of seeing their local parks and rivers covered with…
Volunteers haul tons of garbage out of the bush in Peachland
PEACHLAND – A group of hard working volunteers got their hands dirty — really dirty…
Waste not: North Okanagan regional district looks for recycling alternatives
NORTH OKANAGAN – The Regional District of North Okanagan is thinking outside the garbage can…
Cost of dumping your garbage on the rise in Kelowna
KELOWNA – Fees at the Glenmore Landfill will go up $1 per vehicle or $10…
City warns of garbage scam in West Kelowna
WEST KELOWNA – If you received a notice from the City of West Kelowna saying…
12 tonnes of garbage, 9 tonnes of metal hauled from Peachland bush
PEACHLAND – The president of a local volunteer group had a frightening moment while helping…
Why a Vernon business owner was fined for pushing cart, garbage to homeless shelter
VERNON – Vernon bylaw is clearing up some misconceptions about what it can and can’t…
Local outreach volunteer wants to ban grocery stores from throwing away food
KELOWNA – The head of an Okanagan outreach centre is trying to rally the public…
City councillor thinks Vernon would support a curbside compost program
VERNON – Interest is growing for a city-wide composting program in Vernon. The idea is…
Reporting poachers, backwoods garbage dumpers made easy with B.C. Wildlife Federation phone app
KELOWNA – The B.C. Wildlife Federation has launched a UBC Okanagan-designed app that makes it…
Relocating three North Okanagan grizzlies was ‘the last resort’
VERNON – Over the weekend, conservation officers tranquilized and relocated three grizzly bears — a…
Vernon woman acknowledged for nearly 30 years of picking up litter
VERNON – A Vernon woman earned heartfelt applause this afternoon at city hall as she…
You won’t believe what Kelowna’s ‘Little Iraq’ looks like now
KELOWNA – A group of shooting enthusiasts gathered at a pull-off on the way to…
Pilot project brings bear resistant garbage bin locks to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – A pilot project in Kamloops aims to find out if there’s a way…
Here’s how many bears were killed in the North Okanagan this year, and why
VERNON – You may have heard the saying ‘a fed bear is a dead bear’…
Amount of litter in Shuswap River on the rise this summer
VERNON – Discarded beverage containers, bikes and abandoned tubes are creating an eyesore on the…
93-year-old Vernon woman spends two hours a day picking up garbage to ‘keep busy’
VERNON – If you’ve ever walked or biked along Bella Vista Road which hugs the…
Hungry bears up and about looking for food in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Hibrenating black bears are waking up and they have one thing on their…
Garbage and recycling over the holidays: What Vernon and area residents need to know
VERNON - Between all that wrapping paper, tinsel and empty eggnog cartons, garbage and recycling containers are bound to get filled up this holiday season. Luckily, there aren’t too many changes to local landfill hours and garbage pick-up schudules over Christmas time. The Regional District of North Okanagan says its recycling and disposal facilities will...
Conflicts between humans and bears expected to increase in the Okanagan
WEST KELOWNA – A busy weekend for bear sightings in West Kelowna could signal the start of a fall rife with bear-human conflicts. Frank Ritcey, the creator of the interactive Wildlife Alert Reporting Program on WildsafeBC.com, says four sightings of black bears were reported in the Shannon Lake neighbourhood in West Kelowna since Friday. “This...
Hazardous waste? Watch for the North Okanagan’s new Eco Depot
VERNON - If you need a place to dump hazardous waste, say good-bye to the annual round-ups in the North Okanagan and hello to the new Eco-Depot. The facility is expected to open this fall, and will offer residents the first year-round household hazardous waste drop off centre in the region. For the past decade,...
HELSTON: Hundreds of bears die every year for this stupid reason
This goes out to anyone who’s left their garbage out and had a bear get into it; you might as well have put a bullet through its head. It sounds harsh, I know, but hundreds of bears across B.C. are killed by conservation officers every year because they’ve grown habituated to garbage. Sorry to break...
Changes to curbside waste collection on Christmas and New Year’s
KELOWNA – Kelowna residents with curbside waste pickup normally scheduled for Thursday and Friday will have to wait an extra day to get rid of their Christmas and New Year’s trash. With no collection on Christmas and New Year’s day, for those weeks Thursday pickup will happen on Friday, and Friday pickups will be made...
City running low on large garbage carts
KELOWNA – A combination of more customers and higher demand has the City of Kelowna’s supply of oversize wheeled garbage bins running low and staff has asked for more funds to keep up with demand. The city was alerted to the impending shortage by Okanagan Environmental Waste Systems, the company contracted to collect garbage curbside....