News Items tag as: Kelowna city council

Crime rate and severity down in Kelowna in 2024
March 06, 2025 - 4:30 PM

Kelowna’s crime rate and its crime severity dropped in 2024, but RCMP are still dealing with a staggering amount of calls for service.
RDCO wants $148,000 to prepare against fires, floods and extreme weather
March 10, 2024 - 8:00 AM

The Regional District of the Central Okanagan is seeking $148,000 to cover emergency support services.
Infill housing decision causes division among Kelowna city council
March 05, 2024 - 8:19 AM
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The province's new infill housing rules have Kelowna city councillors in a tizzy.
Transit lobby group challenges to Okanagan city councils to take the bus for one week
January 25, 2024 - 10:11 AM
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A transit lobby group is calling on municipal politicians across the Okanagan and Shuswap to rely only the bus to get around for one week.
Mohini Singh bows out of BC United candidacy race in Kelowna
October 17, 2023 - 7:00 PM

Mohini Singh has officially dropped out of the race for the BC United candidacy in the riding of Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream.
Votes are in for $241 million Parkinson Recreation Centre in Kelowna
October 14, 2023 - 10:00 AM

Voting on the $241 million loan for recreation centres in Kelowna has ended.
Temporary farm worker housing plan back to the drawing board
May 03, 2017 - 9:16 AM

KELOWNA - Changes to temporary farm worker housing were deferred by council at Tuesday night’s public hearing.
Lakeside Aqua Resort to go ahead to development proposal
May 03, 2017 - 7:02 AM

KELOWNA - The Mission Group has been given the unanimous green light from council to move forward with plans to build a high-rise, lakeside community resort.
New resort planned for Kelowna's Mission area
April 10, 2017 - 5:19 PM

KELOWNA - A new 350-unit lakeside community resort is being planned for Kelowna's Mission area.
Kelowna city councillor thanks community for support
March 03, 2017 - 4:27 PM

KELOWNA - More than 200 stitches later and councillor Charlie Hodge is back is in his usual good spirits.
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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 first week of April 2025. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones

$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

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way for development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

News Items tag as: Kelowna city council

Crime rate and severity down in Kelowna in 2024

RDCO wants $148,000 to prepare against fires, floods and extreme weather

Infill housing decision causes division among Kelowna city council

Transit lobby group challenges to Okanagan city councils to take the bus for one week

Mohini Singh bows out of BC United candidacy race in Kelowna

Votes are in for $241 million Parkinson Recreation Centre in Kelowna

Temporary farm worker housing plan back to the drawing board

Lakeside Aqua Resort to go ahead to development proposal

New resort planned for Kelowna's Mission area

Kelowna city councillor thanks community for support

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