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John Krasinski’s SGN turns spotlight toward Kelowna DJ
John Krasinski has been offering up some good news from a weekly webcast and it…
Where thousands of Kamloopsians are sharing memories of the River City
From stories of infamous streakers to A-list celebrities hanging out in downtown coffee shops and…
Canadian Olympian posts social media plea to wear masks
One of Canada’s most decorated Olympians has taken to social media to join the call…
Do you have the ugliest furnace in Kamloops? It could win you a new one
A Kamloops business is giving all owners of an ugly furnace the chance to skip…
‘Nasty’ Facebook comments cost B.C. woman $30K in defamation suit
A B.C. woman has won a defamation case and a sizable award in B.C. Supreme…
Where almost 20,000 current and former Kamloopsians are sharing memories
Some people have taken various initiatives to spread joy and combat negativity since the beginning…
UPDATE: Facebook returns after global outage; Instagram, WhatsApp still offline
Facebook appears to have been restored following a six-hour long outage today. Communications teams for…
Recovering alcoholic takes Penticton Facebook group along on his journey to sobriety
After Brad Britton finished his junior hockey career as a Penticton Panther he became severely…
Vernon-area couple take construction company complaints to Facebook, gets sued
A Vernon couple messed around on Facebook, making derogatory statements about a builder, and found…
Facebook forced into big payout and BC residents could cash in
Facebook will soon be forced to pay out $51 million to its users for breaching…
BC ‘spiritual influencer’ claims Facebook defamed her
A BC woman, who calls herself a "spiritual influencer", has launched a $75-million lawsuit against…
Enraged Sicamous father’s video of public urination brawl leads to police investigation
SICAMOUS - A video making the rounds on Facebook has people downright pissed. It all started when a group of men were reportedly relieving themselves on Main Street in Sicamous, across the road from a high school. Brent Graf, the man who shot the video, says he was picking up his daughters at the time....
Embarrassed by your own bad behaviour during election campaign? It’s time to make amends
OR NOT THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - You likely had one or two of them among their Facebook friends — someone highly partisan, emotionally charged and willing to to go to the wall defending their particular political brand. Taking on all commenters, some of these people have left scorched earth in their wakes, fighting out the election in...
Chance, community spirit, and the power of social media reunite lost cockatiel with Vernon family
VERNON - It would have been a different story if Allison Griffiths hadn’t taken the afternoon off. But she did, and when she got home, it was as if a lost little bird was just waiting for her. She noticed the exotic, grey and yellow cockatiel on a neighbour’s roof and thought, “That’s not a...
Local woman uses social media to find long lost father
"IT'S GOING TO BE MY FIRST FATHER'S DAY IN 46 YEARS WHERE I ACTUALLY KNOW WHO MY FATHER IS." KELOWNA – A local expert in social media found out the power of Facebook last weekend when she used it to find and meet her father for the first time in 46 years. And even though...