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  • Council Approves Recommendation to Update to City Greenhouse Operations

    December 13, 2017 - 3:45 PM

    Kamloops, BC – Council approved a recommendation today to de-commission the City’s unheated greenhouse and outsource the supply of flowers previously grown in the facility. This will reduce the Horticulture budget by $50,000, and the funds will be transferred to the Parks General Fund to offset increased operating costs in 2018 for new parks in Aberdeen and Juniper West neighbourhoods.

    The City owns one heated tropical greenhouse and one unheated greenhouse.

  • 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.

  • Highlights of November 27 Council meeting

    November 29, 2017 - 11:04 AM

    Outdoor events summary

  • Regional District asking public about composting sites, carts and landfills

    April 12, 2017 - 11:55 AM

    Throughout April and May, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) will be conducting open houses across the Regional area to get public feedback on a number of potential solid waste projects.

  • Brown Bag Lecture Series - Surveying Climate Change Science

    February 22, 2017 - 12:00 PM

    Brown Bag Lecture: February 28, 2017, noon - 1 pm  
     
    Speaker : Harvey Quaame

  • West Kelowna Council highlights

    February 15, 2017 - 10:56 AM

    Council Meeting - February 14, 2017

    SILGA Resolutions 
    Council endorsed the following resolutions to be forwarded for consideration by delegates attending the Southern Interior Local Government Association Annual General Meeting April 25 to 28:

  • Home of Tomorrow in Kelowna demonstrates energy efficiency

    January 03, 2017 - 12:22 PM

    KELOWNA - Recent EnerGuide testing has shown the Home of Tomorrow, one of two homes that make up the Wilden Living Lab project, to be 52 per cent more energy efficient than a standard home constructed to today’s building code. 

  • Putting down roots for employment success

    November 14, 2016 - 4:13 PM

    LITTLE SHUSWAP LAKE - A government-funded program is giving unemployed Aboriginal people paid training and hands-on work experience in the Thompson-Nichola region's horticulture industry.

  • City of Kamloops on track for a green fleet

    November 04, 2016 - 3:59 PM

    After a successful application process, the City has been selected to participate in the Fleet Champions Program (FCP). This opportunity is worth $35,000. The program, funded through the Province of British Columbia and administered through the Fraser Basin Council, will allow the City to use data analysis to understand where investment in electric fleet vehicles may be cost effective.

  • Pumpkins of Lights festival

    October 18, 2016 - 4:33 PM

    Gardengate welcomes everyone to our 11TH ANNUAL PUMPKINS OF LIGHT FESTIVAL!
  • 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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