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Okanagan film industry gets top billing

Industry gets provincial boost

Lower Similkameen real estate stuck in summer doldrums

Some market specific activity, but prices, and availability is down
Sober Rider winner of Pharmasave long weekend contest

Sober Rider winner of Pharmasave long weekend contest

long weekend contest winner announced

Profile: The valley’s new ‘Young Guns’ winemakers

Local winemakers are making a name for themselves
B.C. film fund to pitch locations

B.C. film fund to pitch locations

The B.C. Film Commission and its regional agencies are building up their library of film locations in an effort to maintain B.C.'s $1 billion film and television industry.
Local cherry growers hit by labour shortage

Local cherry growers hit by labour shortage

Late ripening results in fewer migrant workers in the area to harvest

New barriers part of highway improvements

Concrete barriers will be replaced along Yellow Lake shoreline

Spotted Wing Drosophila in the Similkameen: Do your part and manage your fruit

Preventing damage from the SWD
B.C.-Alberta road link to expand

B.C.-Alberta road link to expand

The B.C. government has started engineering work to widen sections of the main route from Alberta into northeast B.C., the first step to a four-lane industrial route from the provincial border to Fort St. John.

Black Press buys Cranbrook, Kimberley dailies

Black Press, British Columbia's largest publisher of community newspapers and websites, has announced the purchase of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman and the Kimberley Daily Bulletin from Don Kendall.