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Rob Munro
Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics
Kamloops police looking for information after BMW carjacking
A man was robbed of his 2008 BMW at gunpoint in Kamloops at about 10:30…
Despite West Kelowna councillor’s best effort, no public hearing on McDougall Creek wildfire
With memories of last summer’s McDougall Creek wildfire in and around West Kelowna quickly fading,…
Big Brother is using AI to spy on your recycling bin in the Central Okanagan
Hundreds of notices are being mailed out this week telling Central Okanagan residents they’re not…
Cold snap coming for Kamloops and the Okanagan this week
Near normal temperatures will give way to clearer but colder skies in Kamloops and the…
Kelowna bus garage getting $8 million upgrade until new $100 million building opens
Kelowna’s old bus maintenance building is getting a major $8.3 million upgrade at the same…
Instead of a starter home, why not a starter trailer park in Salmon Arm or Summerland?
Many people are struggling these days to get their foot in the door of the…
Despite intervention, Thompson-Okanagan home prices won’t come down any time soon
Despite all the efforts of various levels of government to get more homes built faster…
Invasive species wreaking havoc and death in West Kelowna park
First it was the invasive gray squirrels that decimated the hazelnut crop at West Kelowna’s…
Fourplexes to be allowed in just about every single-family lot in Kamloops, Okanagan
The province’s plan to force cities to allow fourplexes on most single-family lots has been…
Why Kelowna’s homeless don’t get bathrooms in their new tiny shelters
While so-called tiny homes are relatively new as sheltering spaces for the unhoused in BC,…
RCMP say man found dead of ‘foul play’ near Princeton
The RCMP have identified the body of a man found in a rural area new…
iN VIDEO: ‘UNFATHOMABLE’: Elderly Kamloops woman shuffled aside at care home
Norma Matheson, at 87 and suffering from Alzheimer’s and cancer, is in the twilight years…
One-third of fired BC’s health care workers fired for vaccine refusal were in Interior Health
If you wondered exactly how many health care workers were fired for refusing the COVID…
We have to turn our clocks back again because of US politics
Canada continues to be led around by U.S. apron strings when it comes to locking…
Freezing rain should ease this morning in Kamloops, Okanagan and mountain passes
Light rain was falling in much of the Thompson-Okanagan early this morning, Nov. 2 but…
Builders of Kelowna’s tallest building sued for allegedly faulty railings
The strata representing owners in the tallest of two towers in Kelowna’s One Water Street…
First tiny homes in Kelowna to be built near Rail Trail homeless camp
The first half of the 120 tiny homes for Kelowna residents sleeping rough will be…
Dramatic drop in downtown Kelowna crime offset by sharp rise in Rutland
Calls to Kelowna RCMP dropped by 22.3% in the downtown core in the first half…
Snow, freezing rain to hit valley bottoms in Southern Interior tonight
Environment Canada warnings of snow and freezing rain in mountain passes issued yesterday, Oct. 31,…
Okanagan homeowners are doing just fine with inflation, interest rates
A dramatic rise in interest and inflation rates over the last year, sky-high housing prices…
Enough money raised for Kelowna crane collapse memorial to proceed
Plans to build a memorial to the five men who died in a 2021 Kelowna…
Westbank First Nation outshining Okanagan cities on new home construction
When it comes to issuing building permits for new housing, the tiny Westbank First Nation…
Halloween to be dry but a bit chilly for Kamloops, Okanagan trick or treaters
As the sun goes down and the cute little ghosts and goblins (and Barbies and…
Highway 3 was BC’s first trans-provincial highway despite reverting back to nature
Back in the earliest days of BC’s European history there were intense territorial battles between…