Tag Archives: Okanagan
Days numbered for Airport Inn
There will be no deadline extension for the Airport Inn in Lake Country. Council is going ahead with an order next week to shut the place down and board it up. The owners were given 45 days to comply ...
russ.byth@jpbg.ca Oct 04, 2019
YLW stages emergency training exercise
Kelowna International Airport was the scene of an emergency today — but fortunately it was a simulated incident just for training. The exercise scenario involved a Q400 aircraft encountering a b...
Pete McIntyre Oct 03, 2019
Family says missing man found dead
The search for a missing Kelowna man has ended tragically. Family members say 74-year-old Gordon Solloway was found dead by some hunters Wednesday near Hereon Lake, east of Kelowna. Solloway had gone ...
Pete McIntyre Oct 03, 2019
Photo issued of missing man
Public assistance is being sought to locate a missing Kelowna man. Thirty-five-year-old Jeffrey Hendren was reported missing by friends and family last Thursday after he was last seen in downtown Kelo...
Pete McIntyre Oct 01, 2019
MLA cleared of Election Act violations
Elections B.C. has completed a review into Kelowna West MLA Ben Stewart and found that no provisions of the Election Act were violated. Stewart advised the Chief Electoral Officer back on August 1, 20...
Pete McIntyre Oct 01, 2019
Search suspended for missing man
Search and rescue crews, along with RCMP in the air, have scoured over 4,000 square kilometres east of Kelowna, but there’s still no sign of a missing Kelowna man. Seventy-four-year-old Gordon S...
Pete McIntyre Oct 01, 2019
Weekend temperature records shattered by cold temperatures
If you thought it was colder than usual over the weekend you were right. Environment Canada says temperature records for the lowest daytime high were broken across the Okanagan Valley. In Vernon, temp...
Tiffany Goodwein Sep 30, 2019
Ground and air search for missing man
People are asked to be on the look out for a 74-year-old man missing in the James Lake area south east of Kelowna. The man went out to sight his rifle Thursday morning and hasn’t been seen since...
Pete McIntyre Sep 27, 2019
Former PM’s in Okanagan
A couple of former Canadian prime ministers are in Kelowna today. Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper are among the speakers at LevelUp 2019 — a one day leadership conference put on by NowMedia. "W...
Pete McIntyre Sep 27, 2019
Call centre rings up new jobs
Rogers Communications is opening a new customer call centre in Kelowna, creating 350 jobs. The company says the facility on Dickson Avenue in the Landmark District will open next summer and is expecte...
Beach Radio Sep 26, 2019