Julie Whittet

While today's storm action jolted people from the long weekend's sunny haze, the rainfall is nothing out of the ordinary. B.C. River Forecast Centre spokesperson David Campbell says May and June are typically rainy months for Kelowna.   “We've entered into wet season, the reversal of air flow is typical for this time of year,” he...

Patti Hillman is terrified of heights. But come June 20 she will be stepping outside her comfort zone - and her clothing - suspended more than 100 feet above ground to raise money for breast cancer research. She's already gathered close to $600 to participate in the ZipZone Peachland's 'Go Bare in the Air' fundraiser....

This Saturday and Sunday Kelowna hockey enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels will be passing the puck in street rinks beside Prospera Place. The fourth annual Play On! Kelowna tournament will bring over 1,000 people out to play a casual outdoor game with a bit of competitive spirit. Play On! event coordinator Court Brown says,...

An Alberta man was rushed to the hospital this afternoon cutting short his car race to the top of Kelowna's Knox Mountain. The man's '92 Ford Mustang burst into flames when a slippery hair-pin turn sent his car off the course and head-first into a tree trunk. Smoke was still spilling from the vehicle when...

Peachland's lakefront was glistening this afternoon with the sun bouncing off the freshly polished enamel of over 550 collector cars.  Antiques and their modern counterparts lined both sides of Beach Avenue for the World of Wheels Show and Shine car show today, giving visitors of all ages plenty of opportunity to oggle some of the...

A West Kelowna residence has been cheating the system by growing marijuana plants with stolen electricity. Yesterday uniformed officers of the West Kelowna Drug Unit used a search warrant to investigate suspicious activity at a house on the 3400 of McGinnis Road. With enough evidence to obtain a Criminal Code Search Warrant the officers entered...

If gas prices have you cringing or last-minute camping plans fall through, there's an event-packed weekend to be had right here in the city. Thrill-seekers of all ages can head to the carnival grounds at the Rutland Centennial Park. In addition to the amusement park, you can taken in live music tributes to Johnny Cash,...

Expect some extra company on the streets of Kelowna this weekend and not just from tourists. Uniformed RCMP officers will be out in full force, patrolling by vehicle, bike and on foot in amongst the crowds.  Constable Kris Clark says, "it's a visibility thing, if they can actually see us around, not just driving by,...

Women of all ages are invited to strip down and raise money for breast cancer this June. Peachland's ZipZone is hosting a Naked Ziplining fundraiser on June 20, 2013 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. No matter your shape, size or age, all women are invited as long as they pledge to raise $250. The...

Police are looking for a man caught on camera last April stealing someone's wallet from Kelowna General Hospital. The man pocketed $400 cash and two gift cards belonging to a KGH hospital worker. Video surveillance footage from April 10, 2013 shows the unkown man entering an office in the hospital's emergency ward leaving with a...

At the foot of Kelowna's Dilworth Mountain sits the oldest industrial site of the B.C. Interior. Enclosed behind a seven-foot fence stands the wooden carcass of a mill built in 1871, once used to make flour from grain.  Two other houses of the same period sitting beside the large barn-like structure complete the 142-year-old Brent's...

It's no Mission Creek Greenway but nestled within Glen Canyon will be a recreational corridor linking two of West Kelowna's major communities.

A Kelowna man caught twice peering at women changing with their young daughters will serve a 30 day jail sentence in the community. Daniel Robert Ashton was sentenced in Kelowna Provincial Court today on two separate offences of secretely observing nudity in a private place. Ashton was first caught by staff at Parkinson Recreation Centre...

A woman waiting for the bus in West Kelowna this morning believes an unknown man tried to take her three-year-old daughter. Police are now looking to identify the man who ran from the scene. RCMP received a report just before 10 a.m. this morning of an attempted child abduction at the Dobbin Bus Exchange in...

Kelowna's property owners are cautioned that careless behavior helps thieves get their job done. RCMP say over 70 per cent of car theft cases this year started with unlocked vehicles. According to the Kelowna RCMP First Quarter Report released today, incidents of car and bike theft in 2013 are particularly common in downtown and Rutland...

Despite a forecasted NDP comeback in last night's 40th Provincial Election, the party's campaign for change failed to hold sway over B.C. voters.    "We're a little somber here as we're cleaning up the campaign office,” says Tish Lakes who got 25.41 per cent of Kelowna-Mission's votes yesterday, running as an NDP candidate. Lake says...

Tonight's election results defied predictions with a stunning Liberal victory. But results for the Okanagan re-affirmed Kelowna's reputation as B.C.'s heartland of free enterprise, candidates here say. Voters in Kelowna re-elected all three of their incumbent Liberal MLA's: Ben Stewart for Westside-Kelowna, Norm Letnick for Kelowna-Lake Country and Steve Thomson for Kelowna-Mission. Numbers are still...

Today people across the province will decide whether or not the B.C. Liberals get another four years of leadership. In Kelowna the traditionally Liberal-leaning voter demographic will be tested, as will the NDP's campaign for change. Polls opened at 8 a.m. this morning and will close at 8 p.m. tonight. Visit Elections BC to find...

Life is stirring within the massive concrete building sitting on the 3000 block of South Pandosy Street. Three years after construction first began on the $300 million SOPA Square, the building is finally waking up from a debt-fueled coma.  Construction crews are back on site today, picking up from where they left off over a...

Over the past ten years Kelowna's RCMP officers have been working in increasingly crowded quarters. With the addition of new members the team has quickly outgrown the fifty-year-old building located downtown on Saint Paul Avenue. A $45 million dollar project announced by the City of Kelowna is about to change that.  By 2015 the city...

A young man from Castlegar suffering from paranoia is believed to be at large in West Kelowna. RCMP are looking for 22-year-old Bryan Seaton last seen on Sunday when he fled police. The man's family said he left home May 11 borrowing their Jeep but he never returned. He arrived in West Kelowna the following...

Projects totalling $523 million are looming on the city's eight year capital plan and councillors are questioning where the money will come from. Some funding is expected from government grants and development cost charges, but the rest will have to be borrowed or collected from taxpayers. While the capital plan sources $93 million from borrowing...

With a $30,000 grant approved by city council this afternoon Ballet Kelowna hopes to dance for another 10 years. The grant was approved earlier this year but put on hold when the dance school revealed it was looking at a financially uncertain future.  On the first of February the school announced it would be closing...

Over 200 marijuana plants and 84 grams of dried bud were seized by Kelowna RCMP last Thursday. With a search warrant in hand the RCMP Rural Drug Unit showed up at a residence on the 3400 block of Gates Road.  No one was home at the house but police found what they were looking for...