Tag Archives: Okanagan
Beach park expansion starts this week
Work to expand a popular lakefront park in Kelowna gets underway this week. Starting Wednesday, June 24, and periodically until the end of August, construction crews will be on site at Sarsons Beach P...
Pete McIntyre Jun 23, 2020
New Covid case in Interior Health; 32 new cases in B.C.
British Columbia is reporting 32 new Covid-19 cases since Friday and one new death. One of the new cases is in the Interior Health region, which now has two active cases according to Ministry of Healt...
Pete McIntyre Jun 22, 2020
Man dies while cliff diving
A local man died after a cliff diving incident on Kalamalka Lake Sunday. RCMP and other first responders were called to Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park just after 4 p.m. for a report of a man who had j...
Pete McIntyre Jun 22, 2020
Tragic drowning on Father’s Day
Father’s Day ended in tragedy for a family visiting a natural attraction in Kelowna. A Lower Mainland family was at the Mill Creek waterfall on Old Vernon Road and Spencer Road Sunday around 5:3...
Pete McIntyre Jun 22, 2020
Water quality advisory lifted
After consulting with Interior Health, the Regional District of Central Okanagan has rescinded a Water Quality Advisory for customers of the Killiney Beach Water System in the Central Okanagan West El...
Pete McIntyre Jun 22, 2020
College and Westbank First Nation sign new MOU
Okanagan College and Westbank First Nation (WFN) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding, building on a long history of working together to increase access and support WFN members in achieving t...
Pete McIntyre Jun 22, 2020
Seven new COVID-19 cases in B.C. to close out the week
The B.C. health ministry is reporting seven new cases of COVID-19 Friday (June 19). In a news release, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says today’s added cases bring the total to 2,79...
Pete McIntyre Jun 19, 2020
Club raises funds selling hand sanitizer
Kelowna has been hit hard by the Covid-19 outbreak, but the city’s curling club isn't taking it sitting down. Thanks to Sanipur and its membership base, the Kelowna Curling Club is selling case ...
Pete McIntyre Jun 19, 2020
Charges laid in fraud case
A former staff leader at the Downtown Penticton Association is facing fraud charges. “In November of 2016, a newly appointed executive director for the Downtown Penticton Association, reported t...
Pete McIntyre Jun 19, 2020
Sagmoen sentenced for running into sex trade worker with ATV
A North Okanagan man convicted of running into a sex trade worker with an ATV, was handed a five-month jail sentence, along with three years of probation. Curtis Sagmoen was sentenced in B.C. Supreme ...
Pete McIntyre Jun 19, 2020