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Lake Okanagan Resort condo owners need help two years after wildfire
June 24, 2025 - 6:00 PM
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Almost two years after the McDougall Creek wildfire tore through Lake Okanagan Resort, condo owners are hoping the government will step in so they can start rebuilding by getting water to their homes.
Kelowna won't hear delegation asking for review of religious tax exemptions
June 23, 2025 - 6:00 PM

A group has been pushing the City of Kelowna to question its policy on religious tax exemptions, and the city isn’t listening.
Kelowna pedestrian killed on Harvey in two-car crash
June 23, 2025 - 2:02 PM
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A pedestrian was killed in a two-car crash over the weekend and police are still investigating.
iN NUMBERS: Bureaucrats make the big bucks at city halls in Kamloops, Okanagan
June 23, 2025 - 5:00 AM

When people think about how their city’s bureaucrats get paid they might think about their elected officials, but city managers or chief administrative officers are usually the top earners in city hall.
iN VIDEO: Kelowna gardener gets close up look at a snakefly
June 22, 2025 - 4:00 AM

Kelowna gardener Jenn Frost saved an interesting bug from her dog’s pool recently and then recorded it resting and preening itself on her finger, looking like a tiny dragon.
Signs discouraging impaired boating vandalized in West Kelowna
June 21, 2025 - 12:00 PM

A sign put up to encourage people to report impaired boaters was taken down in West Kelowna, and the group that put the sign up is getting together a cash reward for information.
Brother will get $10M, but wants bigger slice in Kelowna family's real estate feud
June 21, 2025 - 6:00 AM

A Kelowna businessman, who lost his decade-long legal fight to hang onto a $42-million piece of family-owned lakeside real estate, is now arguing he should get a bigger slice of the pie.
BC wildfire documentary premiering in Kelowna, Vernon
June 21, 2025 - 4:00 AM

A wildfire documentary exploring the causes and consequences of BC’s escalating wildfire crisis is premiering in Kelowna and Vernon next week.
Developer takes Kelowna to court again over controversial highrise project
June 19, 2025 - 6:00 PM

A developer has been trying to get the redevelopment of the old Kelowna RCMP site off the ground for years, and after yet another rejection it’s taking the city back to court.
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iN DISCUSSION: ICBC's no fault system criticized
This is where cold facts yield to the hottest of takes. Here you'll find reader responses to stories and newsletter editorials, or letters to the editor for the week of June 23. They may have been edited slightly for readability. The op

iN NUMBERS: Beer, wine and spirits in Kamloops, Okanagan
Everyone loves to go on about how great the wine is in the Okanagan, but good ol’ beer and liquor is too often overlooked. Here are some numbers for wine, beer and spirits in Kamloops and the Okanagan: 8,830: Acres of viney

Texas governor calls for special session after vetoing a bill to ban THC-infused goods
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill that would have banned consumable hemp products containing THC ingredients in the state, but said he's open to lawmakers passing a new effort to regulate what has become a boomin

Kelowna strata management firm fined $15K for not doing any managing
A Kelowna strata management company is on the hook $15,000 after it failed to do anything for a property it was managing. According to a June 2 BC Financial Services Authority decision, property manager Robert Tomislav Zivkovic provided &qu

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