Tag Archives: Okanagan
Milestone year for Crime Stoppers group
Central Okanagan Crime Stopppers is celebrating 35 years of helping reduce crime in 2022. On April 13, 1987, the Okanagan Crime Stoppers Society was incorporated. A year later, the Regional District o...
Jan 11, 2022
Basran and other B.C. mayors call for complex care housing solutions
The mayors of British Columbia’s largest cities are putting new pressure on the province in a renewed demand for complex care housing solutions to support vulnerable residents in their communiti...
Jan 11, 2022
Nearly 7,000 new COVID-19 cases in B.C. over weekend
British Columbia is reporting 6,966 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, an average of 2,322 per day. The total includes 2,573 cases on Saturday, 2,287 on Sunday and 2,106 today. There are 34,551 active c...
Jan 10, 2022
Okanagan curlers to represent B.C. at national events
Jeff Richard’s team won the 2022 B.C. Men’s Curling Championship at the Kamloops Curling Club. Richard of Kelowna, the third, joined with skip Brent Pierce (Royal City Curling Club), Jared...
Jan 10, 2022
Garage and house damaged in fire
A West Kelowna home was damaged by a fire Sunday morning. West Kelowna Fire Rescue responded to reports of a vehicle on fire with extensions to a structure in the 3400 block of Rosedale Place.around 1...
Jan 09, 2022
Appointments needed at COVID-19 testing sites
Residents are advised that COVID-19 rapid antigen tests are temporarily unavailable at the Interior Health Community Collection Centres in Kelowna and West Kelowna. COVID-19 testing by appointment con...
Jan 08, 2022
Interior’s active and new COVID-19 cases both rising
British Columbia is ending the first work week of 2022 with 3,144 new COVID-19 cases. That’s down from the 3,233 on Thursday. #CovidBC update: 3,144 new cases since we last reported, for a total...
Jan 07, 2022
Suspicious structure fire in Kelowna
A late-night callout of the Kelowna Fire Department led to significant damage to a boarded up, abandoned duplex. The calls came in at around 11:00 p.m. about smoke coming from the structure in the 180...
Jan 07, 2022
Defiant gym owner will not shut down
A West Kelowna gym owner openly and enthusiastically defying a public health order to close his workout facility was handed a fine Thursday. According to video posted to social media accounts, Iron En...
Jan 06, 2022
Dog day for crook on Christmas
Crime does not take a day off, even on Christmas. And sometimes that can bite. Kelowna RCMP responded to a report that a male suspect had broken into a business on Neave Court on the morning of Dec. 2...
Jan 06, 2022