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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
Kelowna taxpayers could pay 4.4 per cent more in 2019
KELOWNA – City staff are calling for a 2.45 per cent tax increase in 2019,…
Get more bang for your energy-saving buck by renovating rather than building new
KELOWNA – Cities in B.C. should not bow to peer pressure by forcing the new…
Lake Country residents facing 8.7 per cent tax hike
KELOWNA – Councillors in Lake Country will be considering an almost nine per cent tax…
Man arrested after stolen truck crashes and seriously injures another driver in Kelowna
KELOWNA – A man suspected of driving a stolen Ford F150 pickup truck fled the…
Two fishermen busted for catching too many fish on B.C. Interior lake
Fishing with too many lines and too many hooks on each line netted fines of…
Controversial Kelowna short-term rental rules going to public hearing
KELOWNA – Kelowna city council is lining up one fractious public hearing after another for…
Kelowna heritage home will be preserved as a burned out shell
KELOWNA – One of the oldest surviving houses in Kelowna was narrowly saved yesterday when…
Extra tax hike every year won’t be enough to pay for Kelowna roads and parks
KELOWNA – Even if Kelowna hits taxpayers with an annual infrastructure tax, it won’t be…
Top cop says Kelowna is still a safe city
KELOWNA – Kelowna residents don’t need to fear for their safety says RCMP Supt. Brent…
Date set for public hearing on controversial Kelowna housing project
KELOWNA – A special public hearing will be held just for the controversial Agassiz supportive…
Bureaucracy won’t delay search for new home for Cornerstone emergency shelter in Kelowna
KELOWNA – Even though former Kelowna RCMP Supt. Bill McKinnon’s report to council on crime…
Dozens of applications filed for pot shops in Kelowna
KELOWNA – Forty-one applications have been made to the City of Kelowna in the first…
There’s more to policing than just nabbing crooks
KELOWNA – While it’s the crime stats that grab the headlines every few months when…
Infrastructure tax could be first of many increases to deal with Kelowna’s $477 million deficit
KELOWNA – A proposed 1.95 per cent infrastructure tax in 2019 is just one relatively…
Supportive housing killed plans to relocate shelter
KELOWNA – Putting an emergency shelter in the same block as a supportive housing complex…
Cost of dumping your garbage on the rise in Kelowna
KELOWNA – Fees at the Glenmore Landfill will go up $1 per vehicle or $10…
Kelowna looking $9 million in grants for City Park
KELOWNA – City council will be asked Monday to consider applying to the federal and…
Still no realistic chance of a second route out of West Kelowna’s Casa Loma neighbourhood
KELOWNA – Two proposed West Kelowna developments could create some park amenities but won’t open…
Kelowna looking at ways to cut into $463 million infrastructure shortfall
KELOWNA – Over the next 10 years, the City of Kelowna wants to build more…
Rules on the way to control short-term rentals in Kelowna
KELOWNA – City council will review proposed regulations Monday that will allow homeowners to rent…
Pathways Abilities Society wants to replace bike shop with six-storey housing complex in Kelowna
KELOWNA – An affordable housing project could replace a building used to help Kelowna residents…
Crime rate up by almost 50 per cent in downtown Kelowna
KELOWNA – The latest crime stats in Kelowna back up the perception that crime is…
Huge costs loom for province to accommodate growing Central Okanagan student population
KELOWNA – It will cost the province hundreds of millions of dollars to accommodate the…
Rock the Lake festival lineup announced
KELOWNA – Tom Cochrane and Trooper are just two of the 11 bands that will…