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City Of Kelowna 2018
Controversial Kelowna bottle depot finds a new home
KELOWNA – The bottle depot on Kirschner Road that drew numerous bylaw complaints is relocating…
Kelowna cyclists looks to social media to combat rampant bike theft
CENTRAL OKANAGAN – A Kelowna man who has had three bikes stolen between him and…
Kelowna to spend $80,000 to find out why Knox Mountain is so wet
KELOWNA – The city will spend $80,000 on a hydrogeological study to help get to…
Dropbike success could help Kelowna fight chronic traffic congestion
KELOWNA – The continuing uptake of the new Dropbike service in Kelowna could soon make…
Kelowna’s Innovation centre to get some sorely-needed signage
KELOWNA – What’s the point of being innovative if no one knows you’re there? Kelowna…
Patient housing and parking around Kelowna General Hospital in front of council
KELOWNA – Parking in the neighbourhood around Kelowna General Hospital looms large for city council…
Rutland Seniors Centre will remain closed ‘until further notice’ due to fire
KELOWNA – As feared, a fire at the Rutland Seniors Centre has disrupted a vital…
Unwanted paper, plastic starting to pile up in the Central Okanagan
KELOWNA – As much as 500 tonnes of contaminated recyclables may be sitting in the…
Knox Mountain Park road closed to vehicles as fire danger rating hits extreme
KELOWNA – An extreme fire danger rating has pushed Kelowna to entirely close Knox Mountain…
Kelowna’s Inn from the Cold will survive, fate of displaced homeless shelter residents not so certain
KELOWNA – As far as social service agencies go, Inn from the Cold is the…
Business signs to get smaller, less garish as Kelowna adopts new sign bylaw
KELOWNA – A "confusing and contradictory” bylaw governing the placement of signs on Kelowna buildings…
Kelowna can’t meet climate change targets, wants to move the goal posts
KELOWNA – The final toll will likely sound tomorrow night for Kelowna’s greenhouse gas emission…
Rutland senior centre fire damages much more than just the building
KELOWNA – Outside the Rutland Seniors Centre, Sue Lord could only shake her head as…
Digital, portable signs in the sights of new Kelowna sign bylaw
KELOWNA – Vegas-by-the-Lake is not what we want when it comes to signs on private…
Top 10 corporate taxpayers pay five per cent of all Kelowna property taxes
KELOWNA – You may be just getting over the sting of paying your annual property…
Three months after stop work order, construction to resume on Kelowna high-rise
KELOWNA – Work is finally set to resume on Ellis Parc, a high-rise being built…
Fire risk forces city to close part of Knox Mountain to vehicles
KELOWNA – The hot weather of late, the dry conditions and the risk of an…
Look to Vancouver, Victoria for short-term rental regulation model in Kelowna
KELOWNA – There’s well over a 1,000 short-term rental properties in Kelowna, most of them…
Receding Okanagan Lake will reveal final bill from 2018 flood damage in Kelowna
KELOWNA – What a difference 57 centimetres makes. That’s the difference between the final lake…
Former Kelowna top cop hired to help public ‘feel safe on streets’: City
KELOWNA – It’s been a while since former Kelowna RCMP Supt. Bill McKinnon was in…
High-rise fever continues in Kelowna with another tower proposal
KELOWNA – Another possible high-rise development has been proposed for downtown Kelowna. Currently a parking…
Property tax line-ups over, Kelowna counts it up
KELOWNA – It’s going to take a few more days to count it all up…
Kelowna construction on pace to beat last year’s record of $696 million
KELOWNA – Local politicians have savaged the provincial speculation tax introduced in February’s budget but…
Demand for Dropbikes big in Kelowna after long-weekend hard launch
KELOWNA – The city’s pilot bike share project is going well enough that the project’s…