News Items tag as: KLFEB2024

Contract for supervisor of Kelowna sexual predator 'under review': Community Living BC
March 06, 2024 - 5:23 PM

A provincial agency's contractor tasked with supervising a convicted sexual predator in Kelowna could have its contracts terminated after the man allegedly assaulted a young girl in a bathroom.
Supervision lapse for sexual predator in Kelowna a 'complete failure'
March 06, 2024 - 9:30 AM

A convicted sexual predator was supposed to be supervised when an 11-year-old was allegedly cornered and assaulted in a bathroom last month.
UPDATE: Missing West Kelowna girl located
March 04, 2024 - 5:00 AM

UPDATE: March 4, 2024
Travelling blacksmith keeping historic craft alive in Kamloops, Okanagan
March 02, 2024 - 6:00 PM

A blacksmith is coming to towns around the Okanagan to bring smithing lessons to communities that don’t have opportunities to learn the historic craft.
'Dragons' Den' casting call for Okanagan, Kamloops businesses
March 01, 2024 - 10:30 AM

The Canadian reality TV show Dragons' Den is holding auditions in Kelowna next week.
Worst should be over for neighbours of big hole UBCO dug in downtown Kelowna
March 01, 2024 - 7:00 AM

Excavation is complete on the four-storey deep hole that UBC Okanagan has dug for the underground parkade of the 43-storey downtown Kelowna vertical campus it's started to build.
Tourism in Central Okanagan is growing beyond pre-pandemic levels
February 29, 2024 - 7:00 PM

Tourism is bringing in more money to the Central Okanagan than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rental apartment buildings proposed on Clement Avenue in Kelowna
February 29, 2024 - 2:00 PM
iNhome

Kelowna city staff support the proposed rezoning of a residential area on Clement Avenue to allow for two large-scale apartment buildings to be constructed in their place.
Four critically injured in Kelowna head-on crash
February 29, 2024 - 11:59 AM
iNwheels

Four people were taken to hospital in critical condition after two cars collided head-on on Highway 33 near Kelowna last night.
Kelowna man wins $160,000 on Lotto 6/49
February 29, 2024 - 11:22 AM

The morning started out normally for a Kelowna man with a cup of coffee in the hot tub, but the relaxation turned to excitement when he realized he’d won the lottery.
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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

News Items tag as: KLFEB2024

Contract for supervisor of Kelowna sexual predator 'under review': Community Living BC

Supervision lapse for sexual predator in Kelowna a 'complete failure'

UPDATE: Missing West Kelowna girl located

Travelling blacksmith keeping historic craft alive in Kamloops, Okanagan

'Dragons' Den' casting call for Okanagan, Kamloops businesses

Worst should be over for neighbours of big hole UBCO dug in downtown Kelowna

Tourism in Central Okanagan is growing beyond pre-pandemic levels

Rental apartment buildings proposed on Clement Avenue in Kelowna

Four critically injured in Kelowna head-on crash

Kelowna man wins $160,000 on Lotto 6/49

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