Tag Archives: Okanagan
Okanagan benefiting from correctional transition supports
More British Columbians being discharged from prison, including those in the Okanagan, will be able to access supports to transition back to every day life. The B.C. government is expanding its Correc...
Oct 03, 2022
Interior Health recommends drug checking amid rising overdoses
In response to the recent drug poisoning events in the region, Interior Health is reminding people to check their drugs. IH issued a region-wide Drug Poisoning Alert following multiple overdoses, incl...
Sep 29, 2022
New luxury hotel announced for YLW
Travellers through Kelowna International Airport (YLW) will be able to stay in a new luxury hotel in a few years. YLW and The Sutton Place Hotels have announced development plans for a hotel adjacent ...
Sep 29, 2022
Young driver issued prohibition after crash
Police were not buying a story given to them by a driver after a single vehicle crash in Kelowna. Officers were called to East Kelowna Road on Sept. 23 just after 1:30 a.m. Mounties say a westbound ve...
Sep 29, 2022
Okanagan College offering more early childhood education spaces
Okanagan College is benefiting from a provincial investment into early childhood education courses. The B.C. government said enrolment in those programs across the province grew by 40 per cent in 2020...
Sep 29, 2022
Officers rescue teen on mountain
RCMP officers helped to rescue a teenager who got stranded on a Kelowna mountain. RCMP received a report that an 18-year-old woman had climbed a guard rail and then slid down the side of Dilworth Moun...
Sep 28, 2022
Transit workers set strike deadline
Unionized transit workers in the Central Okanagan plan to walk off the job next week to back their demands for a better contract offer from their employer. Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Loc...
Sep 28, 2022
Large amount of drugs and cash seized
A traffic stop led to police seizing several bags of drugs in Kelowna. An officer on patrol the night of Sept. 27 noticed a vehicle parked at an angle off the road near an authorized camp for unhoused...
Sep 28, 2022
Interior Health COVID-19 outbreak list grows to six
As October approaches, the number of health facilities in the Interior experiencing respiratory virus outbreaks is once again on the rise. As of Wednesday morning (Sept. 28), the Interior Health websi...
Sep 28, 2022
Downtown patrols lead to drugs, weapons and cash seized
Proactive patrols paid-off for Mounties in Kelowna. Community Safety Unit (CSU) officers were conducting crime reduction patrols in the area of St. Paul Street and Cawston Avenue in the city’s d...
Sep 27, 2022