Tag Archives: Business & Economy

The B.C. Lottery Corporation (BCLC) is celebrating its ten Feel-Good Lottery Winners of 2020 - those whose first thought after, 'I won the lottery!' was about giving back.Christyna Whieldon picked up ...

The Green Pub and 27th Street Grill have been put up for lease by the owners of the Riviera Plaza and Conference Center (Village Green Hotel)."The properties have been closed since March, and the hote...

A fixture of Vernon's Hospital Hill neighborhood for decades might be making a comeback.The Village Market at 1900 32 Street has been closed for the past few years, leaving the area without any kind o...

The National Hockey League and players reached a tentative deal Friday to hold a 56-game season in 2021, pending the approval of each side's executive board and Canadian health officials.The season wo...

On October 17th, 2018, Canada became the first G7 country in the world to legalize recreational and medicinal cannabis. While other provinces were more prepared for the rollout of legal weed, Kamloops...

An effort by a downtown Vernon coffee shop to have an accessible parking stall moved to accomodate a curbside patio has fizzled at city council.Triumph Coffee located at 3401 30th Ave., had sought to ...

The Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce is pouring on the heat over craft distillers being shut-out of federal government hand sanitizer contracts.In letters to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premie...

The member of parliament for the North Okanagan-Shuswap is going to bat for distillers that jumped into help produce hand sanitizer at the start of COVID-19 pandemic. The provincial and federal govern...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rallied Canadian companies with a war time like plea to retool and start producing personal protective equipment and supplies....

The B.C. government has announced $53 million dollars in funding for the province's hard hit tourism industry, and a good share of that could be headed for the Okanagan."We know these are challenging ...