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At least one Okanagan Wine Festival event is going ahead this fall
COVID-19 has limited most of this year’s fall Okanagan Wine Festival activities, but one of…
Still want visitors to the Central Okanagan this fall? Tourism Kelowna wants to know
Tourism Kelowna is launching a new on-line survey to see how willing Central Okanagan residents…
ALDO shoe stores in Kelowna and Kamloops closing
ALDO shoe store locations in Kelowna and Kamloops are closing as part of the company's…
Toddler found safe in a wilderness area near Beaverdell
A major search operation was launched yesterday after a two-year-old boy wandered away from his…
Spring flooding forced this Kelowna woman to get creative with her Curly Frog Farm
When Brenda Dureault bought a 26-acre hayfield from her father 20 years ago it was…
Face coverings mandated, but not enforced at Kelowna Walmart
Mask wearing is now requested at Kelowna’s Walmart Supercentre but little is being done to…
Horgan, Henry stress masks last line of defence, not an ‘invincibility shield’
The premier and B.C.'s top doctor continue to defend the province's policy that mask wearing…
West Kelowna’s Johnson Bentley pool set to reopen mid-September
West Kelowna's public pool is the latest to announce a reopening date following the pandemic-related…
B.C. parents consider dropping kids out of school and taking on a new role
Angela Wall decided to pull her children out of the upcoming year of public school…
These two advocates are looking for help to change B.C.’s long term care system
Geir Larsen and Joan Guenther both lost their spouses in the same care home and…
Car sales getting back to normal in B.C., Canada
It may just be pent-up demand caused by a crash in new car sales during…
Federal conservative leadership candidate disregards masks, social distancing at Kelowna function
Derek Sloan, who is running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, is…
Ebus increases service to routes across B.C.
Ebus, which transports travellers from Vancouver to cities in the B.C. Interior and vice versa,…
Another COVID-19 exposure risk at Kelowna Cactus Club; 161 cases now linked to Kelowna
Another date when people at the Cactus Club on Water Street may have been exposed…
Starbucks offers buy one, get one free offer this week
Starbucks locations across Canada are offering a special buy one, get one free promotion until…
Interior Health closes temporary COVID-19 testing site in Kelowna
As there have been no new Kelowna COVID-19 cases reported in the last few days,…
‘Serious inquiry’ needed into B.C.’s lockdown of long-term care homes due to COVID-19
Back in February, 90-year-old Doreen Sherwood was so fit and spry that she had “escaped”…
Petition launched to have Central Okanagan kids mask up for school
A West Kelowna teen is trying to drum up community support and have area students…
UPDATE: Concerned citizens spot missing 14-year-old Kelowna girl
Kelowna RCMP say a missing 14-year-old girl has been located and she is safe, thanks…
UPDATE: West Kelowna residents assaulted by group of teens, ‘appalled’ by RCMP’s response
After a violent altercation with a group of teenage boys yesterday, a West Kelowna resident…
COVID-19 hospitalizations have fallen off but effects remain severe
There’s one main reason that the number of people hospitalized in B.C. with COVID-19 has…
Kelowna realtor fined $6,500 for ‘false’ and ‘misleading’ website
A Kelowna realtor has been fined $6,500 for creating a website that advertised rental and…
The Okanagan welcomes its first Arabic market
Not only did they launch a new business in the middle of a pandemic but…
Salvation Army thrift shop in Kelowna closes, COVID-19 to blame
Kelowna's Salvation Army Sutherland Thrift store is shutting its doors. “These are not easy decisions,…