News Items tag as: KLAUG2021

Kelowna man spots entertaining parking lot scene at Walmart
March 13, 2022 - 9:00 AM

- This story was originally published Aug. 29, 2021.
Rejection of free parkland in Kelowna likely means more pollution, not less: developer
September 07, 2021 - 7:00 AM
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The fight over a proposal to donate 250 acres of land near the McKinley reservoir to the City of Kelowna was fought largely on environmental grounds.
UPDATE: Kelowna RCMP say missing woman located
September 02, 2021 - 12:06 PM

UPDATE: 12:03 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021
Interest in using horse dewormer to treat COVID-19 on the rise in southern Interior
September 02, 2021 - 7:30 AM

Some farm supply stores in the southern Interior are seeing a surge in sales of a drug that is typically used to treat or prevent parasites in animals.
UPDATE: West Kelowna RCMP missing Calgary woman located
September 01, 2021 - 10:01 AM

UPDATE: 9:58 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021
Cities in Thompson-Okanagan look at raising taxes to pay for RCMP salary hike
September 01, 2021 - 7:30 AM

Thompson-Okanagan cities are preparing for a salary increase for the RCMP detachments they contract.
Woman looking for bears duped by wooden ones in West Kelowna
September 01, 2021 - 6:00 AM

While bears appear to be on the move in urban areas searching for food or displaced by wildfires, one West Kelowna woman cannot seem to spot one.
Number of new COVID cases in Interior Health flattening out but still high
August 31, 2021 - 3:20 PM

There were 242 new cases of COVID-19 cases recorded in the Interior Health region in the past 24 hours, according to a Ministry of Health news release issued today, Aug. 31.
At least another 6 weeks of COVID restrictions in B.C.: health officials
August 31, 2021 - 12:39 PM

B.C. health officials will focus on keeping COVID-19 case numbers down for the next month-and-a-half on two fronts.
Campaign heats up between Conservative and Liberal candidates in Kelowna-Lake Country
August 31, 2021 - 11:09 AM

The federal election campaign is well underway and in Kelowna-Lake Country riding two candidates seem to be unwilling to answer some questions.
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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 fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

$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

News Items tag as: KLAUG2021

Kelowna man spots entertaining parking lot scene at Walmart

Rejection of free parkland in Kelowna likely means more pollution, not less: developer

UPDATE: Kelowna RCMP say missing woman located

Interest in using horse dewormer to treat COVID-19 on the rise in southern Interior

UPDATE: West Kelowna RCMP missing Calgary woman located

Cities in Thompson-Okanagan look at raising taxes to pay for RCMP salary hike

Woman looking for bears duped by wooden ones in West Kelowna

Number of new COVID cases in Interior Health flattening out but still high

At least another 6 weeks of COVID restrictions in B.C.: health officials

Campaign heats up between Conservative and Liberal candidates in Kelowna-Lake Country

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