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Lake Country taxes to jump by at least 10% this year
Growth and inflation have triggered the need to increase property taxes substantially in the District…
Taxpayers to foot bill to remove dead cattle from Okanagan Lake
Taxpayers on are the hook to pull out 31 dead cattle from Okanagan Lake despite…
New Year, inflation mean big raises for some Kamloops, Okanagan councils
Canada’s high inflation rate means mayors and councillors in Kamloops and Kelowna will likely get…
Kamloops mayor’s security company direction a ‘closed’ issue
The mayor of Kamloops won't be on the hook after a city-contracted security company told…
Kelowna lobbyists beware – there will be consequences if you break the rules
A new lobbyist registry, currently being drafted at Kelowna city hall, will have penalties for…
One revenue source Thompson-Okanagan cities won’t even consider
Local governments have limited ability to raise money to run their towns and cities. So…
This is how the cost of health care is being dumped on local governments
The City of Kelowna just got a $622,000 federal grant to create a program to…
ASK Wellness wants Kamloops’s mayor to end ‘defamatory’ comments
A prominent social service agency is asking the new mayor of Kamloops to work together…
Decades of downloading on cities led to homelessness in Kamloops, Okanagan today: report
Downloading from senior governments is a major reason why there’s major homelessness problems in cities…
Meet your next (possible) mayor of Kamloops
It's a tough race to project as Kamloops heads into a five-candidate match for its…
Nearly all Kamloops candidates surveyed approve new performing arts centre
No matter who wins in the upcoming municipal election in Kamloops, they're likely to give…
West Kelowna mayor’s new salary to be largest per capita of region’s cities
The next mayor of West Kelowna will be making $12,000 more than incumbent Mayor Gord…
10 years since her life came crashing down, Vernon-Monashee’s new MLA offers example of resiliency
It's almost 10 years ago to the day that newly-elected Vernon-Monashee NDP MLA Harwinder Sandhu…