Klaug2022

B.C. Tree Fruits plant closing Lake Country location, moving to South Okanagan
Despite the fact that 70% of the apples grown by B.C. Tree Fruits Cooperative members…

Kelowna group launching service to help connect Ukrainian refugees with landlords
A Kelowna volunteer group that has been operating since the war in Ukraine began is…

Worst of Thompson-Okanagan worker shortages are behind us: economist
In June, 23% of frontline health care worker jobs at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops…

Police seek three people in assault on woman in downtown Kelowna
Kelowna RCMP want to talk to two women and a man who were in an…

Cost of building carriage houses in Kelowna may go up $20,000
Already the most expensive city in the Interior of B.C. for housing, the City of…

Kelowna’s Rutland neighbourhood getting a direct connection to the Okanagan Rail Trail
The final piece of a safe cycle/walking route between Rutland and the Okanagan Rail Trail…

Shortages of meat, produce at Walmarts in Okanagan, Kamloops
Kelowna Walmart shoppers may be surprised to learn there isn't much produce or meat available…

Lake Country man $500,000 richer after lottery win
A Lake Country man had to wake up his wife to let her know he…

‘Deeply harmful’: Kamloops MP horrified to learn military vet offered assistance in dying
Kamloops MP and Veteran Affairs critic Frank Caputo was horrified to hear a Canadian military…

Heat wave continues in Okanagan, Kamloops
A heat warning continues for the Thompson and Okanagan regions today, Aug. 18, with daytime…

Preventing homelessness one rent payment at a time in Kamloops, Okanagan
The B.C. Rent Bank is helping prevent hundreds of B.C. residents, including some in Kamloops…

People’s Party of Canada leader touring Okanagan
People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier is touring the Okanagan and will be in…

Kelowna rents heading higher in the unaffordability rankings
After a couple of months of falling apartment rental rates in Kelowna that dropped it…

Ron Rubadeau, former Kelowna schools superintendent, set a world record, played bass and ‘lamented numbskulls’
The deaths of prominent distinguished citizens are always marked by accolades about their accomplishments for…

Kamloops, Okanagan’s largest cities more German than French: Census
There are more people with German as their mother tongue living in Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton…