Tag Archives: Okanagan
Tree of Hope partners with advocacy centre
The Child Advocacy Centre and the ‘Tree of Hope Celebration of Giving’ are partnering up this holiday season. The Tree of Hope has selected the CAC as their charity of choice and will be m...
Pete McIntyre Nov 26, 2020
City thanks residents for COVID response
COVID-19 Update West Kelowna Council stands beside staff and the community in thanking everyone for adhering to important health protocols and doing our part to keep each other safe from COVID-19. By ...
Pete McIntyre Nov 26, 2020
UPDATE New COVID cases in schools
UPDATE 10:06 a.m. Interior Health says a member of the Kelowna Secondary School (KSS) community has tested positive for COVID-19. “They are self-isolating at home with support from local public ...
Pete McIntyre Nov 26, 2020
Public hearing set for proposed new Costco site
Kelowna council has considered a rezoning request and Official Community Plan change for a six-hectare property at the intersection of Leckie and Springfield roads, to allow for the proposed relocatio...
Pete McIntyre Nov 25, 2020
738 new COVID cases, 70 in Interior Health
B.C is reporting 738 new COVID-19 cases, along with 13 new deaths. The Fraser Health region lead the new cases with 443, with 169 in Vancouver Coastal, 70 in Interior Health, 21 in Island Health and 3...
Pete McIntyre Nov 25, 2020
Are you missing a safe?
Kelowna RCMP are looking for the rightful owner of a safe. The unusual find was made on November 20th, a locked safe was found abandoned outside in the 500-block of Rosemead Avenue in Kelowna. A searc...
Kevin Rothwell Nov 25, 2020
Food bank drive to try meet growing demand
Demand for Christmas hampers from the Central Okanagan Food Bank is expected to be about 30 per cent higher than last year. In October alone the food bank served 5,500 in Kelowna and West Kelowna incl...
Kevin Rothwell Nov 25, 2020
Woman suffers heart attack after being spit on by man refusing to wear mask
A hotel worker in Nelson, B.C., suffered a heart attack shortly after a confrontation with a patron who refused to wear a mask and wouldn’t leave the hotel’s coffee shop. Rob Little, manag...
Pete McIntyre Nov 25, 2020
Break-in suspects caught in the act
Two men are facing charges after RCMP found them allegedly breaking into a Kelowna home under construction. On Saturday Nov. 21 at 10:30 p.m., a citizen notified RCMP about a suspicious looking truck ...
Pete McIntyre Nov 25, 2020
Unsafe drug supply causing record-breaking fatalities
The latest report from the B.C. Coroners Service shows 162 people died of illicit and fentanyl-related overdoses last month in B.C. That amounts to five fatal overdoses every day, and is more than dou...
Pete McIntyre Nov 25, 2020