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Salmon Arm store breaches employee contract, but sues over $4,000 in training costs
A Shuswap hardware store has failed to recoup $4,000 it spent training a staff member…
Interior Health fined $274,000 after Penticton hospital staff exposed to illicit drugs
The Interior Health Authority has been fined $274,000 after two workers fell ill after entering…
OKIB staff met with weed police months before raid
A recent bust of unlicensed pot stores on the Okanagan Indian Band's Green Mile appears…
Steep fine for Kelowna pub that sold teen a can of stout
A Kelowna brewpub has been fined $7,000 for serving a 17-year-old a can of stout.…
Keremeos man who attacked city hall staff with sledgehammer on day release
A BC man who was found not criminally responsible after he smashed up Keremeos village…
BC nurse swiped narcotics from work, then worked while high
A BC nurse with a history of swiping narcotics from work has been suspended for…
Peachland strata loses legal battle over geothermal costs
A BC Tribunal has ruled that a Peachland strata acted "significantly unfairly" after it charged…
North Okanagan man sent to prison for revenge porn uploads
At one point after their relationship was over North Okanagan resident Ansen George Hannah sent…
‘Deeply disturbing’: Judge says Vernon man’s online kidnap, torture writings have real-world consequences
Acting on a tip from a member of the public, police organized a sting operation…
Big jump for Central Okanagan real estate listings, but sales still way down
Real estate sales in the Central Okanagan have started to pick up with the September…
Well-known Vernon business owner remembered
A week before well-known Vernon business owner Lynella Henke succumbed to cancer she was awarded…
Sexting Kelowna Mountie paid more than $500,000 while suspended
A Kelowna Mountie who was charged with obstructing justice after he requested the victim in…
Kelowna daycare on the hook $10,000 for underpaying staffer
A Kelowna daycare is on the hook for $10,000 after it short-changed a former staff…
South Okanagan pedophile charged for sexual assault while on bail
In the months and weeks before being sent to prison for 10 years, a South…
Vernon arborist in court for working near creek without permit
A Vernon arborist and a trucking company are being prosecuted in court for carrying out…
Another BC nurse suspended for snooping on medical records
Almost two years since the BC privacy watchdog said that personal medical records were "disturbingly"…
BC nurse swipes narcotics and falsifies records, again
A BC nurse with a history of swiping narcotics from work has again been caught…
‘Deceitful conduct:’ Kelowna couple to pay $500K after duping dollar store buyer
Following a 2011 business trip to BC, Chinese television producer Zi Ye became enamoured with the…
Regulator warns unlicenced women touting midwife services in Kelowna, Salmon Arm
The BC nursing regulator is warning the public about two women moonlighting as midwives in…
BC senior asks for $40,000 a month in support from multimillionaire spouse
A BC senior, who wasn't working when she met her multi-millionaire partner 20 years ago,…
‘PRONE TO SIN’: OKIB elder suing Catholic church for historic abuse
Growing up at the Head of the Lake in the early 1960s, Laurie Wilson remembers…
Tolko fined $75,000 for logging road that caused landslide
Tolko Industries is appealing a $75,000 fine it received after a logging road it built…
Vernon man found not criminally responsible for killing his mother has day release extended
A Vernon man who was found not criminally responsible for killing his mother in 2017…
‘Deep injustice’: No jail for North Okanagan mom accused of role in son’s death
While there's no denying that former Lumby resident Keisha Marie McCrea assaulted her son Ethan…