Volunteers sought for Okanagan bat count

The BC Bat Count will take place in June 2022. (J. Saremba photo)
Bat counts help biologists better understand the local bat population and monitor for white-nose syndrome

A bear cub was seen eating garbage in Vernon’s Harwood area Friday, May 27, 2022. (Submitted photo)

Bear cub feeding from Vernon garbage bin prompts call to take extra care
Skaha Bluffs Provincial Park welcomed thousands for a day of climbing clinics and competitions on Saturday, May 28. (Logan Lockhart- Western News)

PHOTOS: Tourists flock to the Okanagan for Skaha Bluffs Climbing Festival
Canopy Growth reports Q4 net revenue down 25 per cent from year ago

Canopy Growth reports Q4 net revenue down 25 per cent from year ago
Tribal Parks Guardians improve access to Big Tree Trail near Tofino

Tribal Parks Guardians improve access to Big Tree Trail near Tofino

Kelvin Redvers, left, is seen being ejected by a security guard, right, from the Cannes red carpet, in Cannes, France, in a May 22, 2022, handout photo. Redvers, a Dene filmmaker, says he was turned away from a Cannes Film Festival red carpet for wearing moccasins. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kelvin Redvers, *MANDATORY CREDIT*

Indigenous filmmaker says he was refused entry on Cannes red carpet for his moccasins
Flowers are seen near a mosque where a shooting left six people dead and eight others injured on Jan. 30, 2017 in Quebec City. The Supreme Court of Canada struck down a Criminal Code provision Friday that meant multiple murderers might have to wait 50 years or more to apply for parole. The unanimous high court decision came Friday in the case of Alexandre Bissonnette, allowing him to seek parole after serving 25 years behind bars for fatally shooting six people at the Quebec City mosque in 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

A look at some recent convictions that have led to consecutive murder sentences
A person navigates to the online social media pages of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on a cell phone in Ottawa on Monday, May 17, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Smaller telecoms cautious on Ottawa’s new CRTC policy directives
A cyclist heads west on Industrial Way in Chilliwack soaking up the springtime sun on Thursday, April 29, 2021. World Bicycle Day is Friday, June 3, 2022. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

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Neighbours on Fuller Avenue look at bee swarm.

Bees swarm home in downtown Kelowna

A new calf was discovered in J-pod on March 1. Researchers have since determined it’s a girl. (Courtesy Center for Whale Research)

J-pod’s newest member is a girl

Equipment from the San Antonio Fire Department is parked outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, after a gunman entered the school and killed 19 children and two adults. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has added his voice to a global chorus of grief following the shooting deaths, but emotions in the U.S. have already turned to unbridled anger. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

A broken country’s broken heart: Tempers flare in Texas, Congress after mass shooting

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Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson rises during Question Period, on April 7, 2022 in Ottawa. Wilkinson says he held talks this week with several European countries, including Germany, about the potential for shipping them clean Canadian hydrogen, to help wean them off Russian oil and gas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Canada could help wean Europe from Russian oil and gas by shipping clean hydrogen

The talks took place at a meeting of G7 energy and environment ministers in Berlin

Airline ground crew walks past Air Canada planes as they sit on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Tarmac delays on arriving flights skyrocket at Pearson airport. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

International flight delays at Pearson airport jump by factor of 275

Head of the Canadian Airports Council says staff levels are the top obstacle to airport bottlenecks

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Skateboarder James Clarke will be participating in the Generations Skateboard Society’s first 7 Generations Cup next month. (Ryan Clark/Special to Langley Advance Times)

B.C. welcomes world’s best skateboarders

Indigenous-hosted pro skateboarding event coming to Langley for the first time

Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid, left, tries to get the puck past Calgary Flames goalie Jacob Markstrom during first period NHL second-round playoff hockey action in Calgary, Thursday, May 26, 2022.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

McDavid nets OT winner as Oilers beat Flames 5-4 to reach Western Conference final

Edmonton finishes off series in five games

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Adam Hoerdt is seen with his bicycle and caravan Thursday morning in Fairfield. The second leg of his cross-Canada cycling fundraiser for ARVC will take three months and is tasked with raising $75,000 for an electrophysiologist fellowship in Toronto. (Evert Lindquist/News Staff)

Cross-Canada journey launches from Victoria for under-researched heart condition

Man who lost wife to ARVC hopes to raise $75,000 with second three-month leg of cycling trek

Images from the 20th Sullivan Challenge race in Kimberley in 2021. Paul Rodgers photo.

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James Osborne of Vernon celebrated his 80th birthday by skydiving on Sunday, May 22, 2022. (Submitted photo)

Vernon senior skydives 10,000 feet to mark 80th birthday

James Osborne also jumped out of a ‘perfectly good airplane’ to celebrate his 70th birthday

Dean Goodine, left, worked with props for the 2008 movie Passchendaele. (Contributed)

Summerland props master’s book recounts on-set experiences

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Ronald Earl Genier

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May 19th, 2022

Jeremy Benjamin Symonds Harrison

May 19th, 2022

Velma Jean Genschorek

May 18th, 2022

Richard Selwyn Hunter

May 17th, 2022

Joseph “Joe” Robert Rivard

May 15th, 2022

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Vancouver-based musician Shawn Austin will be at South Okanagan Events Centre on June 3 for a tour headlined by country-music staple Dallas Smith. (Photo- Penelope PR)

Performing in the Okanagan will be ‘extra special’ for Canadian country music star

Shawn Austin is featured on Dallas Smith’s Some Things Never Change Tour nationwide

Defence counsel Megan Savard questions Jacob Hoggard at his sex assault trial in Toronto, Tuesday, May 24, 2022 as his wife Rebekah Asselstine (left) and Justice Gillian Roberts (top left) look on in this artist’s sketch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alexandra Newbould

Crown alleges Jacob Hoggard is ‘sexual opportunist’ who didn’t take no for an answer

Defence says Hedley singer disrespectful towards women, but is not a ‘sadistic serial rapist’

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Melanie Mark, MLA elect for Vancouver-Mt Pleasant, speaks with media after becoming the first First Nations woman to serve in the legislature as she looks up at family and friends during a swearing in ceremony at legislature on Wednesday, February 17, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

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‘The recovery of the tourism industry is bringing a new challenge for operators in B.C.’

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        (L-R) Max Carbone, Anna Carbone and Dean Desrosiers of Century 21 Assurance Realty have a kitchen discussion in a Kelowna home. Don Denton photography.

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