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Four season luxury Nordic spa proposed for Vernon hilltop
February 17, 2025 - 7:00 AM

An Alberta developer is pushing ahead with a plan to build a luxury Nordic spa adjacent to Vernon's The Rise restaurant.
Wrecking ball finally heading to infamous derelict house in Kelowna
March 20, 2024 - 7:00 AM

It's been almost three full years since Kelowna city council ordered Janusz Grelecki to tear down his house on Gibson Road in Rutland.
Time's up for unsafe Kelowna house, City prepares for demolition
December 08, 2023 - 7:30 AM
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It will be almost three years until an order by Kelowna city council to demolish an unsafe house in a Rutland neighbourhood will finally be achieved.
Why Kelowna’s homeless don’t get bathrooms in their new tiny shelters
November 04, 2023 - 6:00 AM
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While so-called tiny homes are relatively new as sheltering spaces for the unhoused in BC, Pallet Shelter has been installing them across the United States for seven years.
iN PHOTOS: Owner of ‘unsafe’ house in Kelowna will fight the city in the hopes of saving his home
July 30, 2021 - 7:00 AM

After being ordered by the City of Kelowna to demolish his home, Janusz Grelecki is starting to clean up his property in an effort to get the city to back down.
Oliver company fined $27K by WorkSafeBC
May 10, 2021 - 7:30 PM

A roofing company working in Oliver was fined more than $27,000 for failing to ensure its employees had adequate fall protection.
West Kelowna's fire chief hopes it won't take a wildfire to make homeowners fire smart
May 15, 2020 - 1:08 PM

During a quiet forest fire season in 2019, West Kelowna Fire Rescue Chief Jason Brolund couldn’t pay most people to improve the fire safety of their properties.
Province likely won't remove stolen pick-up abandoned in Lac du Bois park near Kamloops
December 09, 2019 - 6:30 AM

A pick-up truck that was spotted balancing on a cliff’s edge in a protected park near Kamloops is now resting with a handful of other cars at the base of the cliff.
10 things to do in Kamloops and the Okanagan this weekend
August 23, 2019 - 7:30 AM

Summer hasn’t wound down yet. There’s plenty of music, food and entertainment to catch this weekend in our regions.
One Okanagan city is going all out to get residents' property wildfire resilient
June 10, 2019 - 6:30 PM

WEST KELOWNA - Okanagan residents are on alert. It’s the season for fire and smoke, and the recently released provincial wildfire outlook diminished the faint hope that this year may buck the trend.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2025. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones

Epic cherry season expected in Okanagan and Kamloops
The cherry season in the Southern Interior is set to be the biggest one in a long time thanks to favourable growing conditions, after extreme weather events damaged crops for the past three years. “It looks like it’s going to be

UBCO, TRU study finds cannabis use helps in recovery from hard drugs
A new study from UBC Okanagan and Thompson Rivers University has found that cannabis use can offer benefits to people undergoing treatment for substance use. People living in a residential recovery facility were given supervised amounts of

Vernon homeowners to see whopping 10% tax increase
Homeowners in Vernon are set for the highest property tax increase in years with an almost 10% jump when compared to last year. With little debate, Vernon council approved the 9.91% increase – a rate four times that of inflation.

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