News Items tag as: Kelowna court

New trial ordered for man found guilty of assaulting his wife
January 18, 2016 - 11:40 AM

EDITOR'S NOTE: While this story describes a B.C. Court of Appeal ordering a new trial, Harjinder Samra never underwent a new trial.
Kelowna judge who died of brain hemorrhage was 'the heart of the chambers'
October 30, 2015 - 2:30 PM

KELOWNA - Courthouse flags across the district are at half-mast today after the sudden passing of a beloved provincial court judge.
Young Kelowna man sentenced for assaulting teenaged girl
October 09, 2015 - 4:30 PM

Kelowna – A 21-year-old Kelowna man has been sentenced on a charge of assault for pushing the head of a 13-year-old girl towards his crotch.
Oyama man gets jail for sex chat with undercover cop posing as child
September 25, 2015 - 9:00 PM

KELOWNA – An Oyama man will spend the next 45 weekends in jail for talking about sex online with an undercover cop who was pretending to be a 14-year-old girl.
UPDATE: Barfly says RCMP officer assaulted him after long day at the pub
May 25, 2015 - 2:29 PM

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No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
A Kelowna brewery successfully avoided a fine for selling beer to an undercover minor, but it did fire the employee. The province's liquor regulator decided against handing down a $7,000 fine after an 18-year-old bought a six-pack from

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

New trial ordered for man found guilty of assaulting his wife