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February 03, 2021 - 8:34 AM Crashes have forced the closure of the Highway 97A between Mara and Sicamous in both directions at two different locations, according to Drive B.C. One vehicle incident is between Mara Heights Road and Sicamous Creek Frontage for about 300 metres. This is two kilometres south of Sicamous. There is a detour in place via Highway 1 at Sicamous and Highway 97B. The other incident is at Park Frontage and the end of Highway 97A for almost one kilometre i...

Image Credit: Submitted/UBCO February 02, 2021 - 7:30 AM With a student population of about 11,000, UBCO is not yet bursting at the seams of its Kelowna campus. And, with at least 7,000 more students expected by 2040, that campus will continue to slowly grow and evolve. In about three years, UBCO will also start to draw 500 to 600 students into downtown Kelowna. “We want to be where we’re going to be most effective in interacting with the broader community on those kinds...

(JOHN MCDONALD / iNFOnews.ca) February 01, 2021 - 6:30 AM Kelowna and West Kelowna politicians fought the good fight against the provincial government’s efforts to impose the Speculation and Vacancy Tax back in 2018. While they lost the initial fight, they continue to oppose the tax, believing their communities were unfairly chosen to have their economies damaged by the new tax and doubting its effectiveness. Now, the head of the Okanagan’s real estate board says the tax ...

Image Credit: Contributed/CITY OF KELOWNA At that time, the hotel was was also in a different location, further to the south at 4519 Eldorado Rd. By the 1980s it had fallen on hard times, went bankrupt and the property was sold to a developer who was going to tear down the building, Jim Nixon told iNFOnews.ca. It was in 1988 when, almost by accident, Nixon bought the building for about $25,000 and saved it from demolition. “I had the land at Cook Road and was going to do a townhouse type ...

Despite a short-term shortage of vaccines, B.C.’s plan is on track to immunize residents at the highest risk of getting very sick with COVID-19 by the

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / Province of B.C. January 29, 2021 - 3:45 PM Another 514 B.C. residents tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, including 71 in the Interior Health region. There were five more deaths, bringing the provincial death toll to 1,189. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry marked the one year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case being announced in B.C. by saying that there are now 66,779 residents who have tested positive. At the same tim...

Between 30 and 40 per cent of the new COVID-19 cases in B.C. are happening in workplaces, according to the province's top doctor.“It’s not s

Kamloops RCMP are asking the public to help find a man who allegedly spat on a patron of a local business earlier this month.The incident happened around 2:

Provincial health officials are warning residents not to travel as another 546 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours, including 70 in the Inter

A SPECIAL affinity with nature, animals and the countryside stayed with Ronnie Darling all his life. So it is perhaps no surprise he went on to become one of the local farming community’s most respected shepherds. His sudden death on December 29, at the age of 68, has robbed the Borders of a much-loved character - a man whose integrity, friendliness and sense of loyalty touched the lives of everyone lucky enough to know him. Ronnie had three passions in life - his love for his family, a...