News Items tag as: Okanagan Gateway

Don't mess with airport business park, planning staff tell Kelowna councillors
March 26, 2018 - 2:02 PM

KELOWNA - Planning staff have given warning to Kelowna city councillors — quit mucking with future land uses at the Airport Business Park on Highway 97 or risk having the Ministry of Transportation step in and halt all development in the area.
Road network around Kelowna airport, UBCO subject of study
October 27, 2017 - 6:30 PM

KELOWNA - Positioned as they are on Highway 97, Kelowna International Airport and UBC Okanagan are facilities of regional and provincial significance and as such, need long-range planning study into how to maximize the efficiency of the roads and highways around them.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

Don't mess with airport business park, planning staff tell Kelowna councillors