The British Columbia government announced a $7.44-million investment in Okanagan College for skills training in high-priority trades seats at the college’s newly renovated, $35-million trades training complex in Kelowna.

Students, teachers and staff at École K.L.O. Middle school in the Central Okanagan school district will benefit from $436,000 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.  

British Columbians looking to adopt children and youth from care can now begin their journey online through Adopt BC Kids, announced Minister for Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux in advance of Adoption Awareness Month (Nov. 1-30).

British Columbia innovators have a date booked with some of the province’s best tech-heads, food producers and venture capitalists in a challenge to develop new agri-technology and enhance the competitiveness and resiliency of B.C.’s agri-food sector.

Over $3.4 million in provincial funding through the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) will enable the University of British Columbia (UBC) to conduct new, cutting-edge research in life sciences, agritech, sustainability and electronics.

Saul Katz, founder of SoLo GI Energy Bars, has one goal: to make a real difference in people's health.

The BC Coroners Service is investigating the deaths of four persons in the crash of an airplane near Kelowna on the evening of Oct. 13, 2016.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died after a motor vehicle incident near Rock Creek on Oct. 3, 2016.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a woman who died after a motor vehicle incident in Oliver on Oct. 10, 2016.

Families in the Central Okanagan school district will no longer pay fees for students riding school buses within their schools’ catchment area thanks to $600,000 in funding under the new provincial Student Transportation Fund.