Julie Whittet

$130 MILLION DEVELOPMENT ALREADY APPROVED By Julie Whittet Two major development plans before the City of Kelowna this week could potentially re-shape the city's tourism with a focus far from downtown. On Monday, City councillors approved a public hearing for Westcorp's $150-million Hiawatha Park revitalization project, and Tuesday approved a $130-million expansion project for Manteo...

By Julie Whittet Current mobile-home owners residing in the Hiawatha RV Park have been offered a number of options for leaving the site, now slated for a major tourist-commercial development. Shortly after purchasing the park in 2007, Edmonton-based Westcorp launched a relocation strategy intended to meet the various needs of home owners.   Westcorp has...

By Julie Whittet A man caught for housing a large grow-op in the basement suite of a Peachland rental property will serve a one year at-home jail sentence. Judge Brad Chapman of the Kelowna Provincial Court sentenced Charles Vernon Bowlen today to six months of house arrest, followed by a six month curfew, for pleading...

By Julie Whittet Kelowna city councillors are reviewing the Official City Plan for a large commercial development on Lakeshore Drive, across from Rotary Beach. Council passed a motion for the proposed large-scale retail, tourism and housing development in the site currently occupied by the Hiawatha RV Park to get first reading to public hearing March 26....

By Julie Whittet City Council approved today a recommendation to continue two new bus services introduced as an experiment last September. In the first four months of their trial operation, the Quail Ridge Service and the Late Night 97 Express Service far exceeded the minimum ridership threshold of 12 rides/hour  required by the Kelowna Transit...

By Julie Whittet A trailer park on Lakeshore Drive across from Rotary Beach may soon be a new urban hub for visitors and residents of Kelowna. City council will meet today to review a proposal to create a large-scale retail, tourism and housing development in the site currently occupied by the Hiawatha RV Park. Real...

By Julie Whittet A West Kelowna man who fled police last year in a stolen truck is applying to appeal both his conviction and prison sentence in the B.C. Court of Appeal. But before he does, Frederick Raymond Gilliland needs a legal aid lawyer and after numerous delays in getting an answer on the free...

LEADS POLICE ON CHASE, DOUBLE SPEED LIMIT AND NO LICENCE By Julie Whittet A 28-year-old Kelowna man who fled police in a brazen car chase last year will spend 11 months in prison because a judge said "he hasn't learned his lesson." Cassidy Oliver told Kelowna Provincial Court judge Brad Chapman today that he accepts full...

By Julie Whittet A mother of three children who was caught selling drugs in Kelowna asked for a longer prison sentence to get help with her addiction. Karina Derby pleaded guilty to two charges of drug trafficking and asked to served time in a federal penitentiary of two or more years.  Under the federal system, she...