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Latest COVID-19 exposures reported on flights at the Kelowna International Airport
Five flights with active cases of COVID-19 used the runway at the Kelowna International Airport…
Fatigued doctors at Kelowna hospital vote unanimously to promote COVID-19 immunization
Doctors working in Kelowna General Hospital are used to working long hours but that doesn’t…
Okanagan College’s new health sciences centre will help provide much needed health-care staff
The Kelowna campus of the Okanagan College opened the highly anticipated health sciences building this…
Potential COVID exposures close to 200 in B.C.; 68 in Interior Health
The tally of schools in the Interior Health region with potential COVID-19 exposures jumped to…
11 more COVID-19 deaths in B.C.; 6 in Interior Health
Not only does the COVID-19 case count continue to mount in B.C. but so does…
Central Okanagan Search and Rescue says 2021 busiest season ever
The Central Okanagan Search and Rescue team has experienced a record-breaking year for call outs.…
Indigenous language learning an act of decolonization: WFN councillor
A Westbank First Nation councillor says learning nsyilxcen, the traditional language of the syilx people,…
No mask mandate for younger grades at Kamloops, Kelowna schools despite high rate of potential COVID exposures
Despite having more schools potentially exposed to COVID-19 than most other districts in B.C., the…
Police looking for witnesses after numerous people assaulted in Kelowna mall
A Kelowna man is facing charges after allegedly assaulting a group of people with a…
Some sunshine ahead of the weekend in Kamloops, Okanagan
While today could see showers throughout the Thompson-Okanagan region, Friday is forecast to be a…
Not all Kamloops, Okanagan workers treated equally on National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
The first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation on Thursday gives many government and institutional…
Divers pick trash from Okanagan Lake — including those with fins and gills
Scuba divers have been cleaning garbage out of Okanagan Lake for decades, but Amanda Fay…
iN VIDEO: Orange shirts for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation came from Williams Lake
As Canadians prepare to observe the country’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation they…
Number of schools with COVID exposures in Interior Health doubled in 24 hours
By late afternoon yesterday there were 15 schools in the Interior Health region posted as…
‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ still disproportionately killing older vaccinated residents in B.C.
The current surge in the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C. and beyond…
COVID exposures at 15 schools in Interior Health including 7 in Okanagan, Kamloops
Interior Health, along with the rest of the province, started posting COVID-19 school exposures today…
Westbank First Nation launches online program to help revitalize syilx language
Westbank First Nation is launching an online language tutorial on the first National Day for…
$2.5M Kelowna industrial property sells for 4 times minimum price at city tax sale
An industrial property in Kelowna valued at approximately $2.5 million was sold at the city’s…
How officials plan to manage Thompson-Okanagan forests after wildfires
An ongoing program with the Ministry of Forests is recapturing carbon emissions in the Interior’s…
Kelowna woman gets hit with unexpected random act of kindness at grocery store
Kelowna resident Andrea Rasing was enjoying a typical Sunday morning, shopping at a grocery store…
UPDATE: Robert Riley Saunders pocketed nearly $500,000 from fraud
Robert Riley Saunders, the disgraced fraudulent social worker with the Ministry of Children and Family…
Fatal ATV crash in remote forested area near Kelowna
A 52-year-old man was killed in an all terrain vehicle crash in the Postill Lake…
Cool moist week ahead in Okanagan, Kamloops
There’s not much to get excited about this week in terms of weather in Kamloops…
More money won’t solve homeless crisis in Okanagan, Kamloops but leadership will: expert
There’s no need to throw more money at the homelessness crisis plaguing B.C., says an…