Five close friends and neighbours sat single file in the courtroom Thursday, March 5, to hear the sentencing of a man now accused of second-degree murder in Jessica Cunningham’s death. Mylie Andre Barron, 48, will spend close to a year behind bars for indignity to a body. But earlier this week he was also charged […]

The owners of the Kelowna Events Centre Inc. and Impact UPstream Ventures Inc. are doing their best to support those impacted by the recent eviction of their tenant, John Perks. Al Hildebrandt and his son Cory Hildebrandt said John Perks and his businesses, Western Canada Food Tours and 1486327 B.C. Ltd., were evicted from 2041

The federal government is putting up $70.4 million over three years to fund skills training for workers in B.C. impacted by tariffs and trade upheaval, according to a joint announcement with the provincial government on Thursday, March 5. “When a worker loses a job that they’ve depended on because of the U.S. tariffs, it’s like

A B.C. MLA has introduced a bill to make school lockdowns easier in the wake of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting that left nine people dead. Independent MLA Jordan Kealy introduced the bill Thursday (March 5) saying that, after the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, “it reminded us that the safety of our schools cannot be

B.C. Premier David Eby said OpenAI’s Sam Altman agreed to apologize to the families of Tumbler Ridge and to work on helping design regulations to force companies to report certain types of AI chat activity to police. “Everybody in the call recognized that apologies are never sufficient, but also that it is completely necessary,” Eby