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  • Citizens groups to decide how to pay new sewer tax

    January 30, 2018 - 4:18 PM

    PENTICTON - The city is counting on two focus groups to provide fair and considered taxpayer input into distribution of Penticton’s new storm water fee.

  • City in action

    December 15, 2017 - 10:07 AM

    Glenmore Landfill fee changes in 2018

  • Amazon’s mysterious methane finally accounted for

    December 07, 2017 - 12:53 PM

    In a new study published in Nature, a team of international researchers have discovered the answer to a scientific mystery that has gone unsolved in the Amazon Rainforest for the past 10 years.

  • Expected Repairs & Refinements to Mission Creek Restoration Project

    November 10, 2017 - 3:18 PM

    As predicted, higher-than-normal freshet flows this spring caused changes to Mission Creek that require repair and refinement of the floodplain and fish habitat restoration work completed in 2016. The Mission Creek Greenway dike on the south side of the creek between Casorso Road and Gordon Drive will remain open while work is undertaken next week.

  • Feedback Sought for Draft Trash Plan

    November 10, 2017 - 1:22 PM

    The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) is seeking feedback on its draft Regional Solid Waste Management Plan (RSWMP).

  • Sharron Simpson named new President of Okanagan College Foundation

    June 28, 2017 - 10:39 AM

    The Okanagan College Foundation has announced that Sharron Simpson is taking on the role of President and Board Chair as the Foundation raises funds for four capital projects on three campuses.

  • Students build tiny house to support environmental research

    June 07, 2017 - 1:20 PM

    A unique tiny house built by students in Okanagan College’s Sustainable Construction Management Technology (SCMT) program will soon provide a secure environment at the Vaseux Lake Bird Observatory for bird banding.

  • City looks for new ways to manage wastewater solids

    April 10, 2017 - 12:04 PM

    As the population in the region increases, the cities of Kelowna and Vernon are working together to identify sustainable ways to manage the region’s growing supply of treated wastewater solids – and they want to hear from residents.

    “We are committed to finding a socially, economically and environmentally responsible long-term solution,” said City of Kelowna Utilities Planning Manager Andrew Reeder.

  • West Kelowna Council determines new water treatment plant funding

    April 02, 2017 - 12:01 PM

    WEST KELOWNA - West Kelowna Council has determined how it will fund the municipal portion of its biggest capital project ever – the Rose Valley Treatment Plant.

  • West Kelowna special council meeting

    March 03, 2017 - 4:07 PM

    WEST KELOWNA - Special Council Meeting February 28, 2017

    Secondary Suites & Carriage Houses
    Council took part in a workshop to review the effectiveness of secondary suite and carriage house regulations in the community, and provided direction on key decision points. Council first implemented secondary suite regulations in 2010 and allowed carriage homes beginning in 2015.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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