News Items tag as: Okanagan Mountain Park

Okanagan Mountain Park will expand thanks to $4 million in donations
August 01, 2023 - 7:27 AM

It took two extra weeks but the entire $4 million has now been raised to buy 151.7 acres of private land and add it to Okanagan Mountain Park.
Time running out to donate to Kelowna's Okanagan Mountain Park expansion
July 12, 2023 - 12:06 PM

Efforts to raise $650,000 in 10 days to buy land bordering on Kelowna's Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park seem to be falling short.
Dozens of Kelowna homes were almost bulldozed during wildfire 20 years ago
July 09, 2023 - 11:00 AM

The orders had been given and bulldozers were on their way to the Upper Mission of Kelowna in a desperate effort to save the city from the Okanagan Mountain Park Wildfire of 2003.
Here’s your chance to help expand Okanagan Mountain Park
July 05, 2023 - 7:00 PM

A final push is being made to raise the money needed to buy 151.7 acres of waterfront land surrounded by Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park by July 15.
Should this multi-million dollar property for sale be in Okanagan Mountain Park?
May 07, 2022 - 6:00 AM
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There are three sections of privately owned waterfront lands surrounded by Okanagan Mountain Park that the province, in theory, wants to buy.
Conservation group creating action plan for Okanagan wildlife corridor
January 22, 2021 - 5:03 PM

An action plan for Okanagan governments and land owners will soon be made available to protect a wildlife corridor that spans between two regional parks.
Why forest regeneration in Okanagan Mountain Park is a rare, natural thing
November 08, 2019 - 7:45 AM

If you got a view of Okanagan Mountain Park this fall, you might have noticed something odd and rarely seen around Super Natural British Columbia — large patches of yellow from a forest in natural re-growth.
Province has no plans to buy land for sale to add to Okanagan Mountain Park
June 17, 2019 - 5:30 PM

KELOWNA - A little-known stretch of private land next to Okanagan Mountain Park, one of few places with an accessible beach is up for sale — but the province has no plans to add it to the park.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

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

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

News Items tag as: Okanagan Mountain Park

Okanagan Mountain Park will expand thanks to $4 million in donations

Time running out to donate to Kelowna's Okanagan Mountain Park expansion

Dozens of Kelowna homes were almost bulldozed during wildfire 20 years ago

Here’s your chance to help expand Okanagan Mountain Park

Should this multi-million dollar property for sale be in Okanagan Mountain Park?

Conservation group creating action plan for Okanagan wildlife corridor

Why forest regeneration in Okanagan Mountain Park is a rare, natural thing

Province has no plans to buy land for sale to add to Okanagan Mountain Park

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