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Sicamous prepares to make wharf bylaw changes and will open an expression of interest for towing services

Sicamous prepares to make wharf bylaw changes and will open an expression of interest for towing services

Sicamous Feb 20, 2024 / 12:48 pm

A District of Sicamous committee has agreed to recommend wharf bylaw changes to council and ask staff to prepare an expression of interest for expanded wharf...

Highway maintenance contractor visits Sicamous council to discuss snow clearing

Highway maintenance contractor visits Sicamous council to discuss snow clearing

Sicamous Feb 17, 2024 / 12:00 pm

District of Sicamous council members had a chance to ask questions about highway snow clearing efforts when AIM Road Maintenance and the ministry of...

Hundreds attend BC United MLA town hall on proposed Land Act changes

Hundreds attend BC United MLA town hall on proposed Land Act changes

Feb 17, 2024 / 4:00 am

About 300 people attended a town hall meeting hosted by Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo to discuss proposed changes to the B.C. Land Act on Friday night. The event was...

Kootenays-based folk rock band Shred Kelly to play Song Sparrow Hall next month

Kootenays-based folk rock band Shred Kelly to play Song Sparrow Hall next month

Feb 16, 2024 / 6:00 pm

Folk-rock band Shred Kelly is returning to Salmon Arm for the first time in two years with a show at the Song Sparrow Hall next month. Kevin Tobin, artistic...

Pellsqepts Spring Winds festival will blow into the Splatsin Community Centre March 23

Pellsqepts Spring Winds festival will blow into the Splatsin Community Centre March 23

Enderby Feb 16, 2024 / 4:02 pm

The spring winds - Pellsqepts, in the ancestral language of the Secwepemc peoples - are returning to Enderby. Back after a successful launch last March, the...

WestJet agrees to rebook flights for family of murder victim Ashley Simpson

WestJet agrees to rebook flights for family of murder victim Ashley Simpson

Feb 16, 2024 / 10:05 am

The family of Ashley Simpson will be able to attend a sentencing hearing for the man responsible for her death after a change of heart by a major Canadian...

CSRD directors divided over Shuswap Watershed Council referendum results

CSRD directors divided over Shuswap Watershed Council referendum results

Feb 16, 2024 / 4:00 am

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District board of directors discussed the outcome of the Shuswap Watershed Council referendum Thursday, disagreeing on whether...

Salmon Arm council says city won't offer free hour of parking at Marine Park during offseason

Salmon Arm council says city won't offer free hour of parking at Marine Park during offseason

Feb 15, 2024 / 4:00 pm

Salmon Arm council has decided against officially reinstating one hour of free parking at Marine Park during offseason. On Monday, Feb. 12, council received an...

Sicamous council officially authorizes deal for the construction of new 54 unit build

Sicamous council officially authorizes deal for the construction of new 54 unit build

Sicamous Feb 15, 2024 / 1:00 pm

The District of Sicamous has officially signed off on an agreement with Western Canadian Property Group Construction Ltd. to allow work to begin on a new 54...

Sicamous council votes down proposed zoning amendment for section of Shuswap North Okanagan Rail Trail

Sicamous council votes down proposed zoning amendment for section of Shuswap North Okanagan Rail Trail

Sicamous Feb 15, 2024 / 4:00 am

It was standing room only in District of Sicamous chambers as council narrowly voted down a zoning bylaw amendment needed for work to begin on the Sicamous...

Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo to host Salmon Arm town hall about proposed Land Act changes

Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo to host Salmon Arm town hall about proposed Land Act changes

Feb 14, 2024 / 6:30 pm

Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo is partnering with Skeena MLA Ellis Ross to host a town hall discussing the NDP government's proposed changes to the Land Act. Both...

Ultra marathon location shifts from Salmon Arm to Sicamous Public Beach Park

Ultra marathon location shifts from Salmon Arm to Sicamous Public Beach Park

Feb 14, 2024 / 3:00 pm

Lewiston Ultra Events has announced it is moving the BC Backyard Ultra from Little Mountain Park in Salmon Arm to the Sicamous Public Beach Park. The organizers...

Salmon Arm council debates next steps for improperly closed road

Salmon Arm council debates next steps for improperly closed road

Feb 14, 2024 / 4:00 am

The development of a proposed Salmon Arm subdivision could result in the reopening of a road which was improperly closed nearly 25 years ago. Gary Buxton, the...

Salmon Arm council offered no objections to Ricochet Brewing Taphouse liquor licence application

Salmon Arm council offered no objections to Ricochet Brewing Taphouse liquor licence application

Feb 13, 2024 / 6:00 pm

Salmon Arm council offered no objections to the creation of a Ricochet Brewing Taphouse downtown, with most councillors voicing excitement about the...

Judge orders Enderby man to pay $1,500 fine for third conviction of driving while prohibited

Judge orders Enderby man to pay $1,500 fine for third conviction of driving while prohibited

Feb 13, 2024 / 2:25 pm

An Enderby man was lucky to avoid jail on Tuesday, ordered instead to pay a $1,500 fine for his third conviction for driving while prohibited. Steven Kyle...

High-flying suspect arrested in Salmon Arm after vehicles run off Trans-Canada, police say

High-flying suspect arrested in Salmon Arm after vehicles run off Trans-Canada, police say

Feb 13, 2024 / 12:48 pm

Salmon Arm Mounties teamed up with officers from Golden, Revelstoke and Sicamous to stop a dangerous driver who allegedly ran at least two vehicles off the road...

Sicamous council to discuss installing aquafit, therapy pool for Shuswap Healing Centre

Sicamous council to discuss installing aquafit, therapy pool for Shuswap Healing Centre

Sicamous Feb 12, 2024 / 6:00 pm

District of Sicamous Coun. Pam Beech wants to look into the potential purchase of an aquafit and therapy pool for the future Shuswap Healing Centre. On the...

Delays expected on Highway 1 in Chase with crews starting slope work

Delays expected on Highway 1 in Chase with crews starting slope work

Chase Feb 12, 2024 / 11:10 am

Drivers are being warned to expect delays on Highway 1 in Chase beginning on Tuesday while crews begin slope stabilization work in the area. The Village of...

The Copper Island Pub in Sorrento is hosting a silent auction to raise funds for a local resident dealing with ALS

The Copper Island Pub in Sorrento is hosting a silent auction to raise funds for a local resident dealing with ALS

Sorrento Feb 11, 2024 / 4:00 am

Shuswap residents are rallying around one of their own as he battles a serious ailment. Copper Island Pub is organizing a silent auction to raise funds for a...

Bonded dogs rescued from harsh conditions in Chase now have a forever home

Bonded dogs rescued from harsh conditions in Chase now have a forever home

Chase Feb 10, 2024 / 9:50 am

A pair of bonded dogs that were rescued from harsh conditions in the Shuswap have found their forever home. The emaciated pair of American...