Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Okanagan, Nicola, Boundary

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for the Okanagan, Nicola and Boundary regions Saturday morning, June 10, 2023. (Black Press file photo)
Environment Canada issued the alert at 9:45 a.m. Saturday
Project manager Scott Chatterton stands with Interior Health professional practice leader Brittany Tomson and laboratory assistants Stacey Williams and Nola Lynch in front of the new Salmon Arm outpatient lab located at #2-2770 10th Ave. NE, next door to the old lab. (Rebecca Willson/ Salmon Arm Observer)

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Neighbours are concerned about the clear-cutting of trees that took place below the 2700 block of 25th Street NE in Salmon Arm on June 4 and 5, 2023. City bylaw enforcement has been investigating. (Photo contributed)

Rapid clearing of trees on a Sunday in Salmon Arm shocks neighbours
Oregon to crack down on illegal pot growers by holding landowners responsible

Oregon to crack down on illegal pot growers by holding landowners responsible
Ticket to ride: Southern California theme parks roll out new attractions for summer

Ticket to ride: Southern California theme parks roll out new attractions for summer

Vernon’s Bill Hansford will have his pheasant red 1948 Ford Fordor Super Deluxe automobile in the annual Vintage Car Club of North Okanagan’s Father’s Day Car Show Sunday, June 18, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the north end parking lot at the Village Green Centre. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)

Vernon car show brings out vintage wheels on Father’s Day
Vernon’s North Okanagan Hospice Society is expanding its ability to offer grief and bereavement services to children and youth. (File photo)

North Okanagan Hospice Society expands grief counselling for kids, youth
Shannon and Jim Meloro look for treasures at the Allan Brooks Nature Centre garage and plant sale. The sale will take place June 16 and 17, 2023. (Lisa VanderVelde/Morning Star)

Plenty of treasures to find at Vernon nature centre’s annual garage sale
Krystle Silverfox, an Indigenous artist in residence at UBCO, has her artwork exhibited at the FINA gallery on UBCO’s campus until August 24th. (UBC Okanagan handout photo)

Contemporary Indigenous art takes centre stage at UBC Okanagan
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Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur poses atop her late brother Tupac Shakur’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a posthumous ceremony in his honor on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Los Angeles. The late rapper and actor is pictured at right. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Tupac Shakur receives Walk of Fame star honor in the same month as birthday

Nanaimo RCMP have reported a man has died on June 7 after going into medical distress while swimming at Westwood Lake. (Black Press Media file photo)

Man dies after going into medical distress while swimming in Vancouver Island lake

Hope RCMP are looking into a serious spate of alleged hate crimes in Hope, just days into the community’s first Pride festival. (Kemone Moodley/Hope Standard/Megan te Boekhorst)

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Three-year-old Deerat Kaur Chahal enjoys some time at Skaha Park. Her family and her are being deported if a reprieve isn’t given. (Mark Brett / Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

Okanagan MP, community rallies to keep young family from being deported

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Central Okanagan Public Schools now has six electric-powered vehicles in its school bus fleet. (File photo)

Central Okanagan School District looking to lower carbon footprint

6 electric powered school buses part of that effort

Shaun Ross Wiebe was sentenced to four years in jail minus time served for the charge of manslaughter Friday, June 9, 2023. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)

Former Vernon pharmacist sentenced to 4 years minus time served

Shaun Ross Wiebe pleaded guilty in May to the manslaughter death of Heather Barker; sentenced Friday

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Two lacrosse players from Kaleden have been selected to play for Team B.C. from June 10 to 11 in Delaware. (Photo- Team B.C. Field Lacrosse Team)

Pair of Kaleden lacrosse players selected to play for Team B.C. in Delaware

U16 athletes Owen Byers and Callum Turpin play out of the Penticton Minor Lacrosse Association

Penticton Vees head coach, general manager and president Fred Harbinson has led recruitment efforts to bring in the team’s first non-North American player. (Photo- Penticton Vees)

From Sweden to B.C.: Penticton Vees recruit 1st European player since rule changes

Deal with Swedish defenceman a result of the BCHL breaking away from Hockey Canada

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Lyle Chapman, Sgt. Murray McNeil, Myanne Peacock, Heather Lee, Jeff Connor, Suzie Cameron and Kris Johnson spoke at the drug awareness and community support event on May 23, 2023 in Sicamous. (District of Sicamous Zoom recording screenshot)

Interior Health, RCMP share insight on illicit drugs, overdose crisis at Sicamous support event

‘We need more help in the community, and we need education.’

Frack Free BC will be at the SENS EV Show on Sunday, June 18. (Contributed)

Frack Free BC comes to Vernon to spotlight ‘fracking issues’ in the province

The group’s goal is to end the giving out of new fracking permits within the province

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Races at the Penticton Speedway on Friday have been cancelled due to inclement weather. (Western News file)

Penticton Speedway cancels Friday night races due to heavy rain

Races on Saturday are currently scheduled to proceed

Surrey-raised musician Jazzy B with his StarWalk plaque on Granville Street in Vancouver during its unveiling in September 2016. (File photo)

New ‘StarWalk’ tour maps B.C.’s most celebrated entertainers for free on VanWalks app

‘People commemorated in the sidewalk have shaped not only Canadian culture, but worldwide entertainment’

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Teck's Elkview Operations is one of four steelmaking coal locations in the Elk Valley. A report from BC Mining Law Reform has listed Teck Resources’ Elk Valley open-pit coal mining operations near Fernie, Sparwood and Elkford as the worst of the top 11 polluting or otherwise risky mines in B.C. in 2023. (Teck website)

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