Tag Archives: Okanagan
Police conclude probe into suspicious package
RCMP have provided on update on a suspicious package discovered Monday at the Gorman Brothers mill on Dunfield Road in West Kelowna “The suspicious package that West Kelowna RCMP were investigat...
Pete McIntyre Mar 03, 2020
Airport business robbed
A 40-year-old man from Kamloops is facing potential charges of robbing a business at Kelowna International Airport. Police say a man entered an undisclosed store last Wednesday around 7 p.m. and deman...
Pete McIntyre Mar 02, 2020
Man allegedly assaults police officer
Police say one of their officers suffered minor injuries after trying to arrest a combative man. The man had allegedly scaled the fence, with two others, at the waste treatment plant on Raymer Avenue ...
Pete McIntyre Mar 02, 2020
Driver error as car slams into Kelowna building
Kelowna RCMP believe driver error is to blame for a collision between a car and a business on Saturday afternoon that caused substantial damage to the building. Thankfully, no one was hurt. On Februar...
Pete McIntyre Mar 02, 2020
Police seek witnesses after serious assault in Kelowna
Kelowna RCMP are seeking witnesses after the discovery of a seriously injured man early Monday morning. On March 2nd, just after 2:45 a.m. members of the Kelowna RCMP responded to a report of an assau...
Pete McIntyre Mar 02, 2020
Ride hailing applications turned down
Five more companies have been turned down for ride hailing services by B.C.’s Passenger Transportation Board All five wanted to operate in a variety of regions including the Okanagan. Coastal Ri...
Pete McIntyre Feb 28, 2020
RCMP release sexual assault review findings
Kelowna RCMP are taking action after a review found a number of sexual assault files were not handled properly by their officers. Following reports that identified Kelowna as having a high number of u...
Pete McIntyre Feb 27, 2020
New deal for UBC/UBCO and faculty
The University of B.C. and the UBC Faculty Association have ratified a new three year agreement covering 4,200 faculty members at UBC and UBC Okanagan. The deal includes wage hikes of two per cent eac...
Pete McIntyre Feb 26, 2020
Security guard provides key tip in arrest of crime spree suspect
A security guard is getting credit for calling police after seeing a suspicious looking man parked in a pickup truck in the Orchard Park parking lot. That led to the arrest of a 33-year-old man who po...
Pete McIntyre Feb 26, 2020
Crews douse structure fire
Firefighters dealt with a fire at a outbuilding in the 2000 block of Colleen Road in West Kelowna Tuesday night. “Rescue responded to multiple reports of an out building fully involved. When cre...
Pete McIntyre Feb 26, 2020