Julie Whittet

KELOWNA – Fall Wine Fest kicks off this week and with glasses filling with reds and whites, dishes featuring another fermented favorite will be served up. Cheese will play a starring role at a number of signature events over the next couple weeks. There's a reason wine and cheese make a solid pair – and it's...

KELOWNA – Yesterday's official opening of the Rutland bus exchange brings the community a step closer to realizing its goal of becoming a major urban destination.   Instead of a place where people pass through via Highway 33, local businesses want to see it become a hub where locals, UBCO students and Big White visitors will...

KELOWNA - One of the city's largest urban-residential centres is getting hooked up to a rapid, more reliable regional bus system. Yesterday marked the official opening of the $4.5 million Rutland Transit Exchange, located on Shepherd Road. Kelowna Mayor Walter Gray says it's an investment that is helping the city change its auto-centric reputation. Not...

KELOWNA - Things are getting smoothed out on downtown's main street. New asphalt now covers the segment of Bernard Avenue from Ellis to St. Paul Street. With the utility work complete, paving of the road and its new parking pads is underway. It's part of the third phase of the street's $14 million revitalization project. ...

KELOWNA - Two Llyodminster men and one local resident face potential charges after a break and enter Tuesday afternoon. Police were called to the 1200 block of Kelglen Crescent at 12 p.m. after someone reported seeing two men kick in the door of a residence before fleeing in a white Ford F150 truck. Police were...

KELOWNA - Furnaces switched on last month as cool weather drifted in with the arrival of fall. Colder temperatures steadily crept in overnight as summer made its official exit. While the first half of September saw highs up to 30 C, the heat gradually tapered off by mid-month. Daily mean temperatures dropped to single digits...

KELOWNA – Wood waste from the Tolko Industries saw mill will soon be a prime source of energy for buildings in downtown. Energy generated from burning the wood waste will heat water piped below city streets and delivered to customers in the downtown core. The hot-water based District Energy System was first proposed by FortisBC...

KELOWNA — City parks staff, and now police, are continuing to investigate disturbing reports of anti-freeze soaked baked goods left in local dog parks. So far they've found no evidence of the poisoned treats. A survey of all veterinarians in the Central Okanagan confirms none treated any animal antifreeze poisoning in the past few weeks. The...

KELOWNA – It will be a painful Thanksgiving for a West Kelowna family who are no step closer to finding out how their son went missing seven years ago today. Aaron Derbyshire disappeared in 2006 and today his family renewed their appeal for any information that could help locate his remains. It was on Friday...

KELOWNA - At least three kinds of cold calling scams are targetting local residents, young and old. After receiving reports of the various scamming ploys the RCMP are warning the public to think twice before taking advice from unknown callers. In one case the suspect targets individuals with grandchildren and requests emergency funds - also...

KELOWNA – Okanagan residents can trade their wine glasses for pints this weekend to sip world-class brews from local and international makers. Tonight and tomorrow vendors are setting up their tables at the Kelowna Curling Club, pouring hundreds of products from scotch, bourbon whisky and imported and local craft beer, to premium spirits including espresso...

KELOWNA – The man accused in the April 2010 shooting of Brittney Irving told his cousin to keep his mouth shut after he inadvertently led police to Irving's body, a Kelowna Supreme Court jury heard today. Jason Labonte became forever linked with the case when Joelon Verma, who is on trial for Irving's murder, called...