SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California on Friday lifted some coronavirus restrictions on outdoor sports and entertainment venues, clearing the way for fans to attend games on Major League Baseball's opening day and for theme parks like Disneyland to reopen for the first time in more than a year.
Dogs have best friends just like any of us. These best friends, as we have seen on so many videos posted on the internet these days, can be anyone or any animal.
Canada added a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to its pandemic-fighting arsenal on Friday, approving Johnson & Johnson's product a week after it was authorized in the United States.
Doctors are increasingly using social prescriptions like gardening and exercise to help people through these times of isolation due to COVID-19.
For the second year in a row, the women of Slackwater Brewing have come together to brew a great beer for an awesome cause.
There are hockey families and then there are the Ouellettes.
We are especially interested in Mars because it is a planet not that different from Earth. If there is, or has been life anything like ours anywhere in the Solar System, Mars is the most likely place.
VANCOUVER - Results of a study led by Metro Vancouver's transit operator reveal copper on high-touch surfaces is lethal to bacteria.
If your eyeglasses easily fog up when you’re wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19, it's probably a sign that the mask isn’t fitting tight enough. That’s what the experts are saying in a bunch of articles I’ve been reading.
Ty Sideroff is wrapping up his kinesiology Diploma program studies at Okanagan College’s Penticton campus.
KELOWNA — Live music has a strong pulse in the Central Okanagan but musicians would like more places to perform, Kelowna city councillors heard Monday.
Nearly a year after they were almost stabbed to death inside a Midland, Texas, Sam's Club, Bawi Cung and his two sons all have visible scars.
The first day of spring is just weeks away. Buds and blossoms bring welcome colour, and birds are starting to scope out birdhouses and nesting material.
SALEM, Mass. - A second panel from American artist Jacob Lawrence's sweeping series “Struggle: From the History of the American People" that has been hidden from public view for decades has been located, the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts announced Tuesday.
A new directive issued in response to "buttergate" could make it hard for dairy farmers to keep up with demand for the staple ingredient, according to experts, who suspect that the controversy may be rooted less in fact than media frenzy.
Cannery Brewing's LakeBoat Lager is a tribute to the S.S. Sicamous, which is prominently featured on the cans. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Cannery's LakeBoat Lager goes to support the work of the S.S. Sicamous Restoration Society. Here is Cannery Brewing co-owner Ian Dyck (rig…
In the “Chicken soup for the soul” book entitled, Find your happiness, Maureen C. Bruschi tells the story of a time when she was quite ill at work and wishing she was at her home in Long Island.
Health Canada approved its third COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, authorizing the jab made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University after a lengthy review of clinical trial details.
MILAN - Fashion is off the hamster wheel, taking a deep breath that is allowing some freshness to seep into the once relentless cycle.
TORONTO - Alongside the headline-grabbing race for a COVID-19 vaccine, the hunt for effective treatments has unfolded with its own share of flameouts and triumphs.
TORONTO - Health Canada has approved two more rapid tests that can indicate the prevalence of COVID-19 immunity, devices experts say should be used judiciously but can help ensure the success of vaccines.
NEW YORK - Glam was back for the Golden Globes virtual, bicoastal awards night Sunday as nominees Zoomed in from around the world and, for Leslie Odom Jr., from his front porch in Los Angeles not far from the action in Beverly Hills.
After pivoting the popular Pig Out festival due to the pandemic in 2020, Oliver Osoyoos Wine Country is bringing back the new Pig Out Trails format to keep the event safe and fun as it marks 10 years in the community.
CALGARY - Rodeo fans love the thrill of a bronc exploding into the ring, cowboy temporarily aboard. How the horse feels about it hasn't been so clear.
I came to faith in the early 1980s.
OVERVIEW: In financial negotiations, settle on an amount that works for all involved. Seek easy terms if it will lower stress. Agreements can be very congenial when all is said and done.
It was a biting cold day in northern Alberta when a young woman named Patricia sought solace in a stroll.
A unique election in a troubled time has resulted in the first all-Indo-Canadian board of directors for the BC Fruit Growers Association.
MILAN - The fedora Humphrey Bogart wore in “Casablanca” may have secured Borsalino’s place in fashion and cinematic history, but it will be something like the cow-print bucket hat that will help ensure its future.
TORONTO - While it’s tempting to compare various aspects of AstraZeneca-Oxford’s newly approved COVID-19 vaccine to others, several experts cautioned against focusing on data that is not comparable and the danger of underrating the product’s ability to curb hospitalizations and deaths.
LOS ANGELES - Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California's Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that both blew his mind and changed his life: a handful of old, stripped-down cars bouncing across the sand.
NEW YORK - It’s a promotion that could be straight out of the “Mad Men” Don Draper playbook.
Osoyoos Desert Centre is delighted to announce it’s been awarded a Province of BC grant to replace its 1.5 km elevated wooden boardwalk trail. The funding is provided under the destination development stream of the Community Economic Recovery Infrastructure Program (CERIP) announced last fal…
That red planet in the sky was named Mars because red seemed the right colour for the God of War.
TORONTO - At age 86, diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and prone to falls, John Bedborough would seem to be at the front of the line amid high-risk Canadians prioritized for a COVID-19 vaccine.
NEW YORK - Is it Mr. Potato Head or not?
A dairy producers' lobbying group is asking farmers to consider alternatives to palm supplements in livestock feed pending the results of an investigation launched in response to consumers' concerns about perceived changes to the consistency of butter.
Three community climate advocates will share their experience encouraging community members to get involved in climate action.
CAMEROON, Cameroon - Russian supermodel and philanthropist Natalia Vodianova became a United Nations goodwill ambassador on Wednesday, pledging to promote the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls and tackle stigmas surrounding their bodies.
WASHINGTON - Jill Biden offers comforting advice to Kelly Clarkson, telling the singer and talk-show host as she goes through a divorce that things happen for the best and that life will eventually “look better.”
SAN FRANCISCO - Fry's Electronics, the go-to chain for tech tinkerers looking for an obscure part, is closing for good.
The Penticton Art Gallery and Cannery Brewing Co. are pleased to partner in a new public art project called SQUARE.
LOS ANGELES - On a TV show Betty White hosted 50 years ago, the perpetual charmer flirts with James Brolin, teases Della Reese and trades quips with Carol Burnett.
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Popular Kelowna-based author Jack Whyte, whose 17 best-selling books of historical fiction have been translated into more than 20 languages, has died.
The BC Alzheimer Society’s popular Minds in Motion program is now online, offering important support for people experiencing early symptoms of dementia and their care partners.
As people have spent more time at home in the past year, the creative juices have been flowing.
During the coldest days earlier this month, half a dozen hearty Tai Chi practitioners braved the sub-zero temperatures and didn’t miss a day as they moved through the traditional motions in the small park adjacent to the tennis courts on Power Street.
MILAN - A digital runway show by five Italian fashion designers of African origin opens Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, one tangible result of a campaign launched last summer by the only Black Italian designer belonging to the Milan fashion chamber.
Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all 777s with the type of engine that blew apart after takeoff from Denver this past weekend, and most carriers that fly those planes said they would temporarily pull them from service.
Hair salons that have been allowed to reopen in parts of Ontario are scrambling to slot in appointments for a backlog of clients looking to clean up their lockdown locks.
