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The B.C. government is beginning its court-ordered negotiations to resolve issues of conflicting title claims on private land encompassed by the Cowichan Tribes land rights case. There are still several appeals being made in the case, but the government is choosing to begin this work anyway. “The court has required us to enter into negotiations […]

A small group of volunteers converged on the upper portion of the Trethewey Channel to tackle one of the Lower Mainland’s most persistent invasive species – reed canary grass. Three dedicated individuals took part in the project on Friday, Feb. 20, with support and oversight from Alouette River Management Society watershed project manager, Kristen Munk,

The provincial government is turning to the courts in the latest attempt to deal with the encampment of unhoused individuals living next to Highway 97 in Penticton. The civil suit, filed on Feb. 3 against John Doe, Jane Doe, and between 20 to 25 unnamed other residents of the Fairview Encampment, is currently scheduled to

Clocks will spring forward an hour in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 8, when B.C. moves to daylight saving time, and while losing an hour of sleep might not seem significant, it can have long-lasting effects on driver safety. The province announced on March 2 that it will adopt permanent, year-round daylight saving

An incident involving Kelowna Mounties is being investigated by the Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO). At around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, RCMP officers stopped a black Mercedes sedan on Snowsell Street North near Glenmore Road. There was only one person in the vehicle – the driver – and after communicating with the