The Okanagan Humane Society rescued 21 abandoned cats from a property in Lone Butte, the organization said in a media release Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (OHS photo)

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Okanagan Humane Society rescues 21 abandoned cats from Cariboo property

The cats, from Lone Butte, add to the growing demand OHS is seeing for animal care

BC Assessment’s proposed change to how it values pipelines will dramatically affect the District of Clearwater’s tax base and those of other B.C. municipalities, Mayor Merlin Blackwell said Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Black Press file photo)

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Pipeline tax breaks could make for ‘hard choices’ for B.C. communities

Regional district to ask questions when Trans Mountain holds open house in Clearwater Wednesday evening

Former Vernon chiropractor Murray Stephen Kievit is facing sentencing on one conviction of sexual assault from an incident in December 2021 in Vernon. (whitehousewellness.ca photo)

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Crown seeks jail time for former Vernon chiropractor guilty of sexual assault

WARNING: This article contains details about a criminal sexual assault trial and may be disturbing to some readers.…

Old-growth trees in the Rainbow-Jordan Wilderness off Lake Revelstoke on Thursday, Oct. 9. (Black Press file photo)

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Protests against old-growth logging coming to B.C. communities

Protests are being held across the province Tuesday, Nov. 18

Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie, of OneBC, stands in front of an Every Child Matters sign on Penticton Indian Band land, holding a sign of her own that reads ‘Zero bodies.’ (@Dallas_Brodie/X).

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B.C. chiefs call for MLA Brodie to resign over ‘anti-Indigenous’ rhetoric

Syilx chiefs say Brodie’s ‘Zero bodies’ stunt in front of an Every Child Matters sign amounts to taxpayer-funded…

Raw logs are loaded onto a logging ship from a log sort down the Alberni Inlet in March 2019. (Susan Quinn/ Alberni Valley News)

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Changes needed to boost timber harvest in B.C., forest critic says

MLA Ward Stamer says red tape has prevented BC Timber Sales from doing its job. The Ministry of…