Tag Archives: Okanagan
UPDATE: Police converge on downtown; suspect arrested
UPDATE Jan. 30 RCMP say one suspect was arrested after a bank robbery led to a large police presence in Kelowna’s downtown Wednesday. A suspect entered the TD Canada Trust on Ellis Street around...
Pete McIntyre Jan 29, 2020
Watch out for Kobe Bryant scams: BBB
The Better Business Bureau is warning basketball fans, and others, to be on the lookout for scams involving Kobe Bryant as fraudsters try to capitalize on the NBA legend’s death. The agency is a...
Pete McIntyre Jan 28, 2020
B.C. has first case of coronavirus
B.C. has its first case of coronavirus. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry told a news conference the person is a man in his forties and a resident in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. The ...
Pete McIntyre Jan 28, 2020
Woman pushed to ground and robbed
Police are looking for witnesses after a woman was knocked down and robbed of her wallet Saturday night in Kelowna. The woman was not seriously injured. “On January 25 at approximately 10:30 p.m...
Pete McIntyre Jan 27, 2020
Video game students step back in time
A class at Okanagan College spent some time at Scandia Golf and Games in Kelowna as part of studies on the history of video games. The course called An Introduction to Video Game Studies, explores vid...
Pete McIntyre Jan 27, 2020
Video game students step back in time
A class at Okanagan College spent some time at Scandia Golf and Games in Kelowna as part of studies on the history of video games. The course called An Introduction to Video Game Studies, explores vid...
Pete McIntyre Jan 27, 2020
Canada wins medal at Big White World Cup
Big day for Team Canada in the fog at Big White. Eighteen-year old Eliot Grodin of Sainte-Marie, Que., took the silver medal in the men’s snowboard cross race Saturday at the 2020 FIS Snowboard ...
Pete McIntyre Jan 25, 2020
Water Quality Advisory Issued
The City of West Kelowna is issuing a Water Quality Advisory for the entire Lakeview System, effective immediately and until further notice, due to high turbidity registering at several monitoring loc...
Pete McIntyre Jan 25, 2020
UPDATE Highway 1 reopened in Shuswap
UPDATE 4:45 p.m. Drive BC says the highway has reopened. There is traffic control in the area. — Drive BC says Highway 1 is closed 1 km east of Chase due to avalanche danger. Only emergency vehi...
Pete McIntyre Jan 24, 2020
New temporary shelter spaces
Forty new safe, warm beds are now available for people experiencing homelessness in West Kelowna this winter through a partnership between BC Housing, the city and the West Kelowna Shelter Society. Th...
Pete McIntyre Jan 24, 2020