News Items tag as: KLFEB2018

North Okanagan siblings excel at Okanagan College Spaghetti Bridge Contest
March 03, 2018 - 3:00 PM

KELOWNA - One family stood out at yesterday’s spaghetti bridge-making contest at Okanagan College in Kelowna.
Lake Country council trying to sell Gable Beach again
March 02, 2018 - 10:38 AM

LAKE COUNTRY – Lake Country councillors appear determined not to let over 1,500 residents stop them from selling 210 meters of wild beachfront in Carr’s Landing to three private residents.
Rental apartment building in downtown Kelowna a first in several decades
March 01, 2018 - 2:00 PM

KELOWNA - A six-storey rental apartment building planned for Clement Avenue — one of the first rental apartments to be built downtown in decades — has received Kelowna council’s initial blessing.
Winter blast keeps Kelowna's favourite skating rink open late
February 28, 2018 - 5:00 PM

KELOWNA - Cold weather of late means skating is still good to go at Stuart Park, but at least for the time being Kasugai Garden just down the road remains closed for the same reason.
West Kelowna fentanyl dealer tries to take back guilty plea
February 28, 2018 - 4:06 PM

KELOWNA – A local man charged with lacing drugs with fentanyl out of a warehouse in West Kelowna will not be allowed to change the guilty plea he entered last year.
Kelowna bus drivers hopeful shield prototype design will improve
February 28, 2018 - 11:02 AM

KELOWNA – Al Peressini feels safer driving bus 6013.
Central Okanagan schools suffer extreme space crunch
February 27, 2018 - 5:30 PM

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - It’s times like these, with enrolment growing and limited space, that Central Okanagan school board chair Moyra Baxter wonders about the extensive school closures the board presided over in the early 2000s.
Kelowna RCMP seek witnesses to collision
February 27, 2018 - 1:37 PM

KELOWNA - An afternoon hit and run collision that sent two people to hospital yesterday has Kelowna RCMP seeking witnesses.
Police dog catches suspect accused of early morning break in of Lake Country coffee shop
February 27, 2018 - 9:22 AM

KELOWNA – One of two men seen breaking into a Lake Country coffee shop early yesterday morning is still at large.
'I think it's ugly as sin': Sharron Simpson blasts proposed 33-storey hotel, condo project in Kelowna
February 26, 2018 - 7:30 PM

KELOWNA - Sharron Simpson won’t be living in the shadow of the Westcorp building should it ever be built but her long association with the area gives her emeritus status of sorts and she doesn’t hesitate to use it to blast the project.
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Penticton 'potio' smoking lounge blazing a trail for cannabis tourism
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News Items tag as: KLFEB2018

North Okanagan siblings excel at Okanagan College Spaghetti Bridge Contest

Lake Country council trying to sell Gable Beach again

Rental apartment building in downtown Kelowna a first in several decades

Winter blast keeps Kelowna's favourite skating rink open late

West Kelowna fentanyl dealer tries to take back guilty plea

Kelowna bus drivers hopeful shield prototype design will improve

Central Okanagan schools suffer extreme space crunch

Kelowna RCMP seek witnesses to collision

Police dog catches suspect accused of early morning break in of Lake Country coffee shop

'I think it's ugly as sin': Sharron Simpson blasts proposed 33-storey hotel, condo project in Kelowna

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