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January 11, 2021 - 10:43 AM Two Air Canada flights into Kelowna last week had people on board who potentially were infected with COVID-19. The B.C. Centre for Disease control identified two sections of Air Canada flight 1125 from Toronto that possibly had infections. Those were between rows three and 16 with rows three and four and between rows 12-16 highlighted. Air Canada flight 8414 on Jan. 5 from Vancouver had a possible exposure between rows four and 10. Since March 27,...

Image Credit: Submitted/Kamloops RCMP January 08, 2021 - 1:33 PM More than five kilograms of drugs, a large amount of cash, three firearms and body armour were seized by Kamloops RCMP in three related raids yesterday, Jan. 7. Cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl were found in the raids. Police executed a search warrant at a west Valleyview property at about 10:30 a.m. That led to further searches of a property in Sun Rivers and a storage locker on the Tk’emlups Reserve ov...

Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson January 08, 2021 - 12:06 PM The latest detailed breakdown of COVID-19 cases in the Interior Health region shows a drop in Central Okanagan cases but increases in Kamloops and Vernon along with numerous smaller towns. For the week of Dec. 22 to Jan. 2, there were 448 new cases of COVID-19 in the region up from 405 the week before. The cases in the Central Okanagan, which has usually accounted for more than half of the cases in the...

Envisioning a More Equitable School: Q&A with Dean of Academic Program and Equity Rob Munro Dec 4, 2020 Robert Munro, Concord Academy’s dean of academic program and equity, stepped into this newly created role in July. He previously directed the global studies program at Middlesex School, where he also taught history. At CA, he is tasked with envisioning how equity, sustainability, and social justice can be woven into the fabric of CA’s rigorous academics; building institutional capacity am...

(ADAM PROSKIW / iNFOnews.ca) January 07, 2021 - 8:04 AM Kelowna Mountain developer Mark Consiglio’s attempt to stop the sale of three Kelowna building lots has been turned down by a judge. In 2012, Consiglio and Bradley Donald Stock MacBeth borrowed money from Tri City Capital Corp. to develop a small residential subdivision on Trumpeter Road in the Upper Mission area of Kelowna. Two years later, Tri City launched foreclosure proceedings after no payments were made on the l...

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) January 06, 2021 - 7:00 AM If you had to ask someone in Kelowna where Reids Corner is, you were exposed as a newcomer. Its an area known by the words alone — there are no maps, no signs and typically very little information to help you find it, not that its a secret. The City of Kelowna has finally changed that, not with a street sign or road name, but a recently erected concrete sign with the words Reids Corner at the corner of Highway 97 and Sexsm...

(BRENDAN KERGIN / iNFOnews.ca) January 02, 2021 - 6:00 PM It’s estimated that the region was home to 618,000 people as of July 1, 2020. By 2030 that number is expected to grow by 61,000 people to 679,000. Population projections are based on things like fertility and mortality rates and migration. “It should be noted that because the process of change is cumulative, the reliability of the projections may decrease over time,” a report on B.C. Stats called PEOPLE 2020: BC ...

The sale of liquor for in-house or off sales must stop as of 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and not resume until 9 a.m. on New Year’s Day.That’s

Image Credit: SUBMITTED / BC SPCA December 31, 2020 - 11:00 AM A truck driver in northern B.C. watched in disbelief recently as an oncoming vehicle drove over a cat that had collapsed in the road near Montney, just north of Fort St. John. The driver of the other vehicle kept going but the semi-truck driver stopped and found the cat was still alive but frozen to the road. “We believe this poor cat was wandering and probably succumbed to hypothermia and collapsed in the middl...

December 31, 2020 - 7:30 AM The traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations replete with fireworks displays have, for the most part, been cancelled in the Thompson-Okanagan region because of COVID-19 restrictions. Only people staying at Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops have any chance of seeing a fireworks display on New Years Eve. “For everyone’s safety, we encourage you all to watch the show from the comfort of your home or accommodation,” states Sun Peaks website. Staff...