News Items tag as: Kelowna boating

iN VIDEO: Kelowna boater 'missed it by that much'
May 13, 2019 - 10:45 AM

KELOWNA - Usually when you're steering a boat, the goal is to keep it on the water, but sometimes things can go horribly wrong.
All Kelowna boat launches are now open
July 14, 2017 - 4:30 PM

KELOWNA - As the level of Okanagan Lake continues to drop, more beaches and boat launches in Kelowna are open in time for the weekend.
Yacht Club boat show in Kelowna this weekend
April 21, 2016 - 8:30 AM

KELOWNA - Thousands of sailors will soon drop anchor in Kelowna for the Yacht Club’s annual boat show.
Winter storms close Kelowna's busiest boat launch at the height of summer
July 29, 2015 - 2:30 PM

KELOWNA - Stormy weather last winter has left behind a sandbar in Okanagan Lake big enough to shut down the city’s busiest boat launch.
Boat sinks itself doing stunts on Okanagan Lake
July 13, 2015 - 1:16 PM

KELOWNA - A boat that sunk Sunday night in Okanagan Lake may have sunk itself by doing doughnuts.
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$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

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

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

iN VIDEO: Kelowna boater 'missed it by that much'