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  • Interior Health expanding immunization for meningococcal disease over the holidays

    December 22, 2017 - 2:48 PM

    Immunizations will be offered at public health centres through drop-in clinics or booked appointments, and at select Shoppers Drug Mart locations throughout the Okanagan.

    Due to high demand and additional vaccine received, Interior Health (IH) will continue to offer the Meningococcal Quadrivalent vaccine for all people in grades 9-12, or aged 15-19 throughout the Okanagan over the holidays.

    DROP-IN CLINICS:

  • Notes from the Public Meeting of the Board of Education

    December 06, 2017 - 12:04 PM

    The Board of Education conducted its inaugural Board Meeting and election of Board Officers. The newly elected Board Officers are as follows:

  • Youth pop-up gallery

    August 28, 2017 - 12:34 PM

    Your voices need to be heard and your vision needs to be seen. You deserve to be inspired, empowered, connected, respected and nurtured. Your creativity needs to be honoured. This Youth Pop Up Gallery and Juice Bar will provide a safe place during the festival for your city's youth to gather, learn, share and grow, meet and be mentored by our Art Community. We want to instil a sense of pride in your hearts and really show that you are important and vital members of our city.

  • Okanagan celebrates Canada Water Week

    March 10, 2017 - 1:38 PM

    The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) and its Okanagan WaterWise program have lined up a number of events to celebrate UN World Water Day and Canada Water Week (March 19-25), including a special screening of the award-winning film RiverBlue.

  • 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:

  • Kelowna non-profit society sending school supplies to Africa

    October 14, 2016 - 10:43 AM

    KELOWNA - The deadline to assist a Kelowna woman in her drive to send much-needed school supplies to a community in eastern Africa is nearing. Kelowna resident, Kerrie Niemeier, is calling on the community to assist her in collecting as many school supplies as possible bound for a small Tanzanian community by the end of October. Pencils, pens, erasers, writing books, etc. will be collected until Oct. 31, 2016 and shipped to Africa in November.

  • College students help elementary students develop financial literacy

    July 29, 2016 - 1:09 PM

    OKANAGAN -  A $6,630 grant from the Central Okanagan Foundation (COF) is helping Enactus students from Okanagan College continue their efforts to support financial literacy among elementary school children.

  • UBC research aims to make swimming healthier, more energy efficient

    May 16, 2016 - 12:00 PM

    KELOWNA - UBC engineering researchers are looking for ways to reduce energy use and minimize potential health concerns in community pools.

  • Creative students and faculty members host annual Spring Festival at UBC Okanagan

    April 09, 2016 - 3:41 PM

    KELOWNA - As the academic year winds to a close, students at all schools at UBC’s Okanagan campus are completing final projects, experiments, and prepping for exams.

  • 20 years of clean up for North Westside volunteers

    March 31, 2016 - 12:00 PM

    KELOWNA - It’s no April Fools’ Day prank. For the 20th year in a row, this Friday morning, April 1, a dedicated group of volunteers on the North Westside will head out to pick up garbage that’s landed where it doesn’t belong. The garbage blitz crew, predominantly seniors, is challenging you to do the same — spend even 20 minutes of your day spring cleaning in your neighbourhood.
  • 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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