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City Of Kelowna 2022
Kelowna highrise fire shows need to double firefighters: union president
What was likely Kelowna’s first fire inside a highrise on May 29 has local firefighters…
Why so many prolific offenders are walking free in Kelowna
Changes to provincial guidelines on approving criminal charges are key to the proliferation of repeat…
Legacy group’s ethics challenged by developer of former Kelowna RCMP site
The company's behind the plan to redevelop the former RCMP detachment site in downtown Kelowna…
Legacy group calls for investigation into ‘bait and switch’ on former RCMP site
Now that new development plans have come forward for a highrise on city-owned land in…
Brazen attitude of prolific offenders bogging down Kelowna RCMP: top cop
It’s not just that 63% of Kelowna’s property crimes are committed by 10% of the…
Kelowna report calls on province for help with prolific offenders
Fifteen people had 1,039 “negative impacts” with the RCMP’s Southeast District in the first 11…
Cases of assault with a weapon take big jump in Kelowna: RCMP
Assaults involving weapons in Kelowna rose to 62 in the first three months of this year…
Why Central Green never became the ‘gateway’ to Kelowna
There was a time, more than a decade ago, when an old school site in…
Courtyard property next to Kelowna’s Gospel Mission with $2.95M asking price sold to city
An outdoor courtyard used by residents of the Gospel Mission homeless shelter in downtown Kelowna…
Why Kelowna may be heading toward a downtown highrise overbuild
The most visible sign that Kelowna is the fastest growing major metropolitan area in Canada…
Redesign of tower on former Kelowna RCMP site grows to 25 storeys
In response to public pressure, the design of a new downtown Kelowna highrise has been…
More affordable housing key outcome of Kelowna visioning conference
Affordable housing was the topic most on the minds of the 25 participants in a…
No public hearing needed for Okanagan’s next 35-storey highrise
An application to rezone downtown Kelowna land for one of the city’s highest buildings does…
Kelowna’s homeless population expected to double by 2026
In 2018, Kelowna’s Journey Home Society set a target of reaching functionally-zero homelessness by the…
Price set at $10 million for right to build hotel at Kelowna’s airport
A Kelowna realtor has posted a call for expressions of interest to build and operate…
Court may be only remedy for public beach access through Kelowna’s Eldorado Hotel
Once again, the gate along the boardwalk that runs through the Hotel Eldorado’s patio is…
Westcorp wants highrise on Kelowna’s former Hiawatha mobile home park to go higher
Construction of 200 townhouses is already underway on the former Hiawatha mobile home park and…
Despite building boom, Okanagan city struggling to house 5,000 new residents
After leading Canada’s largest cities with the highest growth rate at 14% during the last…
Kelowna’s Bernard Avenue to become an ‘urban park’ July 1
COVID may be a painful memory for downtown Kelowna businesses but one of its cultural…
Expanded e-bike, e-scooter program in Kelowna could include ‘LimeAble’ adaptive vehicles
Lime had joined Spin as the second of only two companies renting e-scooters and e-bikes…
Snowbirds coming to Kelowna for airport’s 75th anniversary in July
The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will spend two days in Kelowna in July to celebrate the…
Kelowna fighting residents as well as beavers to save hundreds of trees
Andrew Hunsberger loves the thousands of trees on City of Kelowna lands. The city’s urban…
Huge business centre proposed for Kelowna airport industrial park
A company describing itself as Western Canada’s largest developer and manager of industrial land is…
Kelowna’s Knox Mountain to reopen to vehicles after pandemic hiatus
For the first time since the COVID pandemic lockdown in 2020, Knox Mountain Park will…