News Items tag as: Kelowna transit

Planned Kelowna transit improvements will help develop affordable housing
November 04, 2024 - 5:00 PM

The City of Kelowna is planning for public transit infrastructure that meshes with housing development.
Transit drivers unsung heroes during massive West Kelowna wildfire evacuations
March 16, 2024 - 7:00 PM
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During the 2023 wildfires in the Okanagan last summer season multiple transit bus drivers were put on the frontlines to help evacuate the residents of long-term care facilities like the evacuation of West Kelowna's Brookhaven Care Centre.
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.
Minute of silence on anniversary of fatal bus stabbing in Kelowna
October 26, 2023 - 4:30 PM

A transit activism group is promoting a silent moment of remembrance next week for the anniversary of a murder on a Kelowna bus.
Further cuts to Okanagan transit services on the horizon and COVID-19 further impacts revenues
April 22, 2020 - 7:30 AM

Bus service in the Okanagan may be further reduced in the days ahead, the president of the local transit union says.
Kelowna seeking federal money to build a new electric bus depot
June 24, 2019 - 4:49 PM

KELOWNA - Moving its bus garage to a site near UBC Okanagan and rebuilding the Orchard Park bus station are two of five projects the City of Kelowna is hoping will be mostly funded by the federal and provincial governments.
Female bus driver assaulted in West Kelowna
February 15, 2017 - 9:03 AM

WEST KELOWNA – Police say a young man in a hoodie assaulted a female bus driver and ran away Monday afternoon.
Transit union making last ditch effort to avoid strike in Central Okanagan
November 09, 2016 - 10:30 AM

CENTRAL OKANAGAN – The president of the union representing bus drivers in the Central Okanagan is meeting with the employer this morning in an 11th hour effort to avert a strike.
Central Okanagan bus drivers set to strike this Thursday
November 08, 2016 - 11:13 PM

CENTRAL OKANAGAN – The union representing bus drivers across most of the Central Okanagan is planning to strike Thursday, Nov. 10.
Central Okanagan bus drivers hold strike vote this week
November 07, 2016 - 4:30 PM

CENTRAL OKANAGAN – Bus passengers in the Central Okanagan will have to wait to find out if they will be affected by a transit strike this week, but buses will continue to run as normal until at least Wednesday morning.
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No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
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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 transit

Planned Kelowna transit improvements will help develop affordable housing

Transit drivers unsung heroes during massive West Kelowna wildfire evacuations

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

Minute of silence on anniversary of fatal bus stabbing in Kelowna

Further cuts to Okanagan transit services on the horizon and COVID-19 further impacts revenues

Kelowna seeking federal money to build a new electric bus depot

Female bus driver assaulted in West Kelowna

Transit union making last ditch effort to avoid strike in Central Okanagan

Central Okanagan bus drivers set to strike this Thursday

Central Okanagan bus drivers hold strike vote this week

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