News Items tag as: KLMAY2023

New Kelowna crime task force heavily weighted towards business
June 01, 2023 - 6:00 PM

Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas will lead a new 13-member Community Task Force on Crime Reduction the leans heavily on business leaders.
Two taken to hospital after Mercedes crashes while fleeing Kelowna RCMP
June 01, 2023 - 9:25 AM
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Two people are lucky to be alive after crashing a vehicle while fleeing Kelowna RCMP last night.
Kelowna reveals plan for alcohol consumption in city parks this summer
May 31, 2023 - 3:31 PM
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Kelowna is looking at allowing alcohol consumption in sections of three city parks this summer.
Poilievre’s negative comments about Kelowna 'poverty porn': homelessness expert
May 31, 2023 - 11:34 AM

The head of the organization trying to reduce homelessness in Kelowna doesn’t take kindly to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s comments about her city.
Kelowna vet clinic seeing high number of rattlesnake bites this spring
May 31, 2023 - 6:00 AM

A Kelowna veterinary clinic says pets bitten by rattlesnakes are up this month and is warning owners to be careful.
Pierre Poilievre compares Kelowna to a third-world country
May 30, 2023 - 3:33 PM

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre said Kelowna looks like a third-world country.
'You must always be on your period:' Kelowna teacher suspended for comments
May 30, 2023 - 1:46 PM

A Central Okanagan teacher has been suspended for five days after he told a student who took frequent bathroom breaks that "you must always be on your period."
Man stabbed and seriously injured in Kelowna attack
May 30, 2023 - 1:03 PM

A 37-year-old man was stabbed in at a Kelowna mall and was at risk of bleeding to death on Sunday, May 28.
Kelowna man charged after relocating western painted turtles to his private pond
May 30, 2023 - 9:15 AM

A Kelowna resident was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of live wildlife after capturing protected live western painted turtles from a Kelowna pond and putting them his personal pond.
Home of the Okanagan’s first radio station to become stores and housing
May 30, 2023 - 7:32 AM
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CKOV was the first commercial radio station in the Okanagan, hitting the airwaves on Nov. 4, 1931.
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iN DISCUSSION: Hot takes on cold facts
This is where cold facts yield to the hottest of takes. Here you'll find reader responses to stories and newsletter editorials, or letters to the editor for the week of May 26. They may have been edited slightly for readability. Th

A look back at the glory days of celery production in the Okanagan
Celery isn’t grown commercially locally these days, but once upon a time there were acres of it growing in the Okanagan. Kelowna resident Domenic Rampone’s family immigrated from northern Italy to Kelowna in 1893 where they grew

North Thompson woman refused home insurance over cannabis plants loses human rights case
A North Thompson woman has lost a legal battle against more than a dozen insurance companies after she was refused coverage because she grew medical cannabis on her property. According to a May 2 BC Human Rights Tribunal decision, form

New Kamloops supportive housing site comes with $30M price tag
A new North Kamloops supportive housing project is slated for move-in by 2028. BC Housing is looking for contractors to build the 54-unit building and attached a $30.5 million price tag. That's according to procurement documents,

News Items tag as: KLMAY2023

New Kelowna crime task force heavily weighted towards business

Two taken to hospital after Mercedes crashes while fleeing Kelowna RCMP

Kelowna reveals plan for alcohol consumption in city parks this summer

Poilievre’s negative comments about Kelowna 'poverty porn': homelessness expert

Kelowna vet clinic seeing high number of rattlesnake bites this spring

Pierre Poilievre compares Kelowna to a third-world country

'You must always be on your period:' Kelowna teacher suspended for comments

Man stabbed and seriously injured in Kelowna attack

Kelowna man charged after relocating western painted turtles to his private pond

Home of the Okanagan’s first radio station to become stores and housing

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