News Items tag as: KLDEC1215

Hefty Kelowna property tax increase resting on contract obligations, mayor says
December 12, 2015 - 6:30 PM

KELOWNA - Mayor Colin Basran would love to pare down the 4.11 per cent tax property tax increase council is considering but says they don’t have much room to move.
Kelowna rollover backs up Christmas shopping traffic
December 12, 2015 - 1:13 PM

KELOWNA – RCMP are investigating after a car crash on a busy road near Kelowna’s biggest shopping mall this morning.
Why workers at some City Halls must take holidays in December
December 12, 2015 - 1:00 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Civic governments in Kamloops, Vernon and Penticton keep their main offices open over the holidays but they do it a little differently in the Central Okanagan.
Empty Kelowna house badly damage by fire
December 12, 2015 - 10:30 AM

KELOWNA – Fire crews put out a blaze in an unoccupied house in Rutland this morning and a fire investigator is looking for the cause.
Winter storm bringing heavy snow to mountain passes
December 12, 2015 - 9:57 AM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – It wouldn’t be the weekend without a warning from Environment Canada about heavy snow on the highways through B.C. Interior mountain passes.
Good marketing is good, says UBCO professor
December 12, 2015 - 9:30 AM

KELOWNA – A UBC Okanagan marketing professor says Starbucks' successful and controversial red cup campaign was good marketing.
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JONESIE: Booing the American anthem is understandable, but the wrong strategy
OPINION Well that wasn’t very Canadian, was it? In Montreal, they booed the Americans and the American anthem at the Four Nations hockey tournament. That’s of particularly poor taste to invite guests into your own

'No rationale': BC pub fined $7,000 for customer drinking beer in its bowling alley
A BC pub has been fined $7,000 after a customer took a beer from the bar to its bowling alley. According to a Jan. 16 BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch decision, the Victoria bar argued the rule was difficult to manage because custom

France targets traffickers and recreational drug users as minister warns of a 'tsunami of cocaine'
PARIS (AP) — “Every day, people pay the price for the drugs you buy.” Amid record cocaine seizures and deadly shootings, the slogan is simple and aims to raise awareness among France’s millions of recreational drug u

Kelowna rental property manager gets licence cancelled
The managing broker of a Kelowna property management company whose clients complained they hadn't gotten their money has been suspended. According to a Feb. 10 BC Financial Services Authority decision, Tao Guo, who goes by Terry Guo, ha

Hefty Kelowna property tax increase resting on contract obligations, mayor says