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Controversial restructure of Kelowna tent city reducing homeless: mayor
May 27, 2025 - 5:00 PM
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A few months after the City of Kelowna's controversial spring cleanup of the Okanagan Rail Trail encampment, the mayor said the site’s restructuring has made progress to reduce homelessness.
Costed platforms, voter turnout highlight federal election campaign this week
April 25, 2025 - 7:00 PM

The last full week of the 2025 election campaign had the party leaders crisscrossing the country making their final pitches and shoring up support ahead of Monday's vote.
Penticton company building 60 tiny homes for Kelowna's homeless
April 23, 2025 - 12:00 PM
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One of Penticton’s longstanding construction contractors has landed the contract to build 60 “tiny homes” to house the homeless in Kelowna.
Why Kelowna's treatment of homeless encampments has changed over the years
April 11, 2025 - 6:00 AM
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The addition of fences, security guards, identification stamps and a lots of cops at the end of March changed the landscape at the homeless tent city along a section of the Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna.
Kamloops and Kelowna firefighters wrestle with increasing 'nuisance' fires at homeless campsites
April 10, 2025 - 6:00 AM

Firefighters are putting out more and more fires at homeless encampments in Kamloops and the Okanagan, but it's not clear how to curb the problem.
'Status quo not working': Kelowna mayor responds to critics of rail trail homeless camp actions
March 28, 2025 - 11:16 AM

Big changes are coming to the Okanagan Rail Trail homeless encampment in Kelowna after this week's aggressive cleanup operation by authorities and mayor Tom Dyas is commenting for the first time about why it was necessary.
Big changes coming to Kelowna’s tent city after ‘spring cleanup’
March 27, 2025 - 12:34 PM

Kelowna officials from numerous departments tore down the rail trail encampment yesterday, and now the city is putting in a host of new rules.
Deaths of homeless people on the rise in Interior Health region
March 08, 2025 - 2:30 PM

The numbers of homeless people dying each year in the Okanagan, Thompson and Shuswap region are on the rise.
Crime rate and severity down in Kelowna in 2024
March 06, 2025 - 4:30 PM

Kelowna’s crime rate and its crime severity dropped in 2024, but RCMP are still dealing with a staggering amount of calls for service.
Homeless Kelowna man with 95 convictions released back onto streets
March 03, 2025 - 7:00 PM

A BC judge told a homeless Kelowna man with 95 convictions to his name not to give up on the chance of rehabilitation as she released him back onto the streets after seven months in jail.
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Strawberry dilemma: Buy cheap American or more pricey Okanagan grown
Fruit stands with rows and rows of fresh strawberries in the Okanagan should tell you they’re in season, but if you shop for your berries at the grocery store you might feel like it’s a struggle to buy Canadian right now. Americ

North Thompson woman refused home insurance over cannabis plants loses human rights case
A North Thompson woman has lost a legal battle against more than a dozen insurance companies after she was refused coverage because she grew medical cannabis on her property. According to a May 2 BC Human Rights Tribunal decision, form

Leaky sewage system nets another fine for South Okanagan development
A South Okanagan developer was hit with another fine for its leaky sewage system, this time for $158,000. The sewage system was recently taken over by the regional district, but that didn't stop the province from handing down its third

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