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The Westside Wine Trail will be a busy place to be during the Okanagan Fall Wine Festival. From star gazing and carnival games to harvest dinners and open houses, the wineries of the Westside Wine Trail have brought back some annual favourites as well as added some new events to …

The response to the GoMedia conference held in Penticton this past week was so good, some journalists and destination delegates from around the world are sticking around for a few more days. Rob Taylor, Vice President, Tourism Industry Association of Canada, who helped organize the GoMedia Canada Marketplace in 2015 …

Okanagan Crush Pad, located in Summerland, BC, can now add the words “craft distillery” to its name with the purchase of a still and the license to make spirits. The spirits program will be under the direction of chief winemaker, Matt Dumayne. He has years of experience distilling in his …

Doug Brown pulls a tiny common yellowthroat from a sack and examines the bird as a group of children and adults looks on. The young male juvenile has just been caught in one of the mist nets at the Vaseux Lake Bird Observatory (VLBO), where Brown, the bird bander in …

A new store downtown is paying tribute to Merritt’s past. The nearly 100-year-old building’s story begins with the Toy family, which immigrated to Canada from China around 1916. The Toys founded the Yuen On Lung Company shortly thereafter and built their Voght Street department store, which members of the Toy …

One of the oldest pubs in British Columbia is up for sale after falling into foreclosure. The Prospector Pub and Hotel in Rock Creek was first built in 1895 along the shores of the Kettle River. This year’s fire season hit Rock Creek particularly hard. A more than 4,000-hectare wildfire …

The Rail Trail system throughout the Thompson Okanagan is a keen topic and TOTA is currently hosting 6 workshops in the Central and South Okanagan Region as well as the Boundary area to gain stakeholder input for the Regional Rail Trail Tourism Strategy that is currently being developed. As we …

Kelowna sailors are gearing up for the annual Canada-wide Keelboat Women’s Championships, as some of the best female sailors across the country are expected to hit Okanagan Lake from October 1st until the 4th. “We have 19 teams from as far away as Halifax as well as the Caroline Grant …

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A vision statement was launched at the 10th annual Organic Okanagan Festival in Kelowna that calls for the entire Okanagan Valley to become 100 per cent organic by the year 2020. “We hereby declare that we shall transition all of our lawns, gardens, municipal areas, parks, school playgrounds, sports and …