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The number of students living on campus at Okanagan College in Kelowna will more than double at the start of next fall, due to new developments.

The Okanagan Indian Band this week broke ground on its new elementary school, heralding what officials say will be a new era of inclusive learning in the community.

The plan is designed to maintain, protect and restore an existing but threatened 65-km-long ecological corridor between Okanagan Mountain Park and Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park.

Leonard Marchand has been appointed as the new chief justice of the B.C. and Yukon Courts of Appeal in what the B.C. attorney general calls "a historic appointment."

A collaborative mural project – one of four in B.C. – designed to bring communities together and spark conversations about hate was recently unveiled in the South Okanagan.

Representatives from the Ktunaxa and Syilx Okanagan nations say they continue to bring up salmon restoration in negotiations for a modern Columbia River Treaty.

The Sinixt Confederacy has been seeking to influence the management of natural resources and make claims to government funds in B.C. but there's a rift in those plans already.

For the first time since 1968, the national men’s curling championship will be played in Kelowna, B.C., Curling Canada announced Friday.

The Biden administration recently announced its proposal to retore grizzly bears to the North Cascades Ecosystem.

From trash taken out of Lower Mainland waters, to treasure attached to Vancouver Island residences, here are five good news stories from the week to share.

A prominent member of the Penticton Indian Band, lax̌lax̌tkʷ Dr. Jeannette Armstrong is one of the 85 new appointees of the Order of Canada.

The province said the Ktunaxa, Secwépemc and Syilx Okanagan nations have been an essential part of the Canadian negotiating team, alongside the governments of Canada and B.C.

Vanessa Campbell said it has taken four years to get the font right and it's a sign of respect for the Indigenous people whose land the university is on.

The bachelor of Nsyilxcn language fluency celebrated its first graduates at UBC Okanagan -- the program is Canada’s first bachelor’s degree of Indigenous language fluency.

In Kelowna this week during Columbia River Treaty talks, the two sides discussed, among other things, flood management and ecosystems with input from First Nations and U.S. Tribes.

Unseasonably hot weather in the BC Interior has pushed the BC River Forecast Centre to issue a high streamflow advisory for the Upper Columbia, Boundary and Kootenay regions.

Of the 14 new members, 10 are adult females, with the remaining four being yearling calves. Of the 10 females, nine are pregnant and will start calving in late May.

WFN in partnership with BC Wildfire Service is setting this land ablaze, a tradition dating back to when Indigenous firekeepers used to perform the same task.

"The reason I think this strategy is really important is because it is long-term," said Julia Payson, the executive director of the Vernon Canadian Mental Health Association.

"Having queer captikʷł it's really important to me for young people to see that it's okay to be themselves."