Despite a strong grape harvest in 2025, the British Columbia government has extended its support for the province’s wine industry for another year, acknowledging the sector’s ongoing recovery from the devastating polar vortex of January 2024, which severely damaged vineyards across the region.
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More than 1,400 US healthcare workers are seeking employment in BC as the province makes it easier for them to transfer their credentials here, and steps up its recruitment campaign south of the border.
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The Swinging Skirts Golf Tournament has raised $9,000 for local charity Highway to Healing at its golf tournament last month.
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Researchers have crunched data on excess deaths and calculated that Canada’s 2023 wildfire season shortened the lives of 82,000 people worldwide.
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Coinciding with the annual Festival of the Grape on Sunday which attracts over 4,000 people to Oliver Community Park, Interior Health has advised that the emergency department at the South Okanagan General Hospital (SOGH) will be temporarily closed from from 5 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21 to 7 pa.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21.
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