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Daily cleanup of Kelowna's Leon Avenue homeless camp ruffles feathers on both sides
November 06, 2019 - 5:00 PM

At 9 a.m. every weekday morning there’s a friendly, yet hostile routine in the 200 block of Leon Avenue in downtown Kelowna.
Spring sweep cleans up Kelowna's streets
March 24, 2016 - 4:30 PM

ANNUAL CLEAN UP IS UNDERWAY AND THE CITY HOPES RESIDENTS WILL HELP OUT
What goes down, must come up — city crews begin annual street-sweeping program
March 12, 2015 - 7:28 PM

KELOWNA - With such a mild winter, city crews put down less sand and salt this winter, but what they put down they still have to pick up.
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LETTER: 'Be Kind. Be Calm. Be Safe.': COVID five years in
OPINION Be Kind. Be Calm. Be Safe. Those memorable words spoken during the COVID pandemic by BC’s Provincial Heath Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry resonated far beyond by boundaries of the province she so effect

Trying to buy Canadian? Shoppers in Kamloops, Okanagan find it isn't easy
A trade war with President Donald Trump has Canadian shoppers trying to source locally made grocery products, but understanding product labels at major grocery outlets is complicated and some major grocery outlets are not forthcoming with informa

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

Daily cleanup of Kelowna's Leon Avenue homeless camp ruffles feathers on both sides