Tag Archives: Business & Economy

A Kelowna-based app developer is hoping to provide Okanagan small businesses the kind of technology that normally only franchise and corporations can muster. Creatrixe Solutions has spent three years ...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says the federal deficit for the year is on track to hit $328.5 billion as a result of COVID-19. That figure released this morning reflects measures announced ...

A development in the Bella Vista highlands on the books for years may finally be getting some traction after Vernon council gave support to rezoning seven properties.The Okanagan Hills resort communit...

A City of Vernon staff effort to update and streamline the rules on how, when and where home-based business can operate has been sent back to the drawing board. The revamp of the bylaw proposed changi...

CALGARY - Alberta's premier says new federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole was just stating the obvious when he indicated the Energy East pipeline project was off the table in a conversation with t...

Twenty-four years ago Barritta Durward turned a hobby into a business with the opening of Cotton's Chocolates. Since then the downtown Vernon business has thrived with its hand-made sweets.Durward's s...

Okanagan College has landed over $600,000 in provincial funding to provide online training for up to 40 Okanagan-Shuswap residents to prepare them for jobs in the hospitality industry. "The tourism se...

The first locally grown apple varietals are now coming off the trees. "We have Ginger gold, Honey Crisp and Gala in stock now, and by most reports, it should be a good year," said Kirk Hughes, General...

Okanagan wine lovers can go online this year to get a shot at purchasing highly sought after French wines in an annual offering from the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB). Customers have the oppor...

Wildfire mitigation work on the Duteau Creek watershed, a major source of drinking water to the Greater Vernon area, doesn't go far enough for some members of the Greater Vernon Advisory Committee (GV...