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City Of Kelowna 2023
Kelowna considering user fees for city boat launches
Kelowna forced businesses using city boat launches to pay a total of $140,000 in licence…
Kelowna’s Mayor to head up new crime reduction task force
Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas will chair a task force of nine to 11 members to…
Vandals celebrate Earth Day by destroying mature tree in Kelowna park
It seems that designating a special day for environmental awareness and calling it Earth Day…
Rec centres or affordable housing? Kelowna council needs to get its priorities straight: builder
Earlier this week Kelowna city council adopted a staff plan on how to spend a…
Average Kelowna taxpayer on the hook for an extra $87 this year
The final numbers have been crunched, so Kelowna City Council is being asked, when it…
Nine new Kelowna courts no help to B.C.’s second largest pickleball club
The Pickleball Kelowna Club is the second largest club in B.C., behind Vernon, with 600…
Massive apartment building planned near downtown Kelowna
A proposed six-story, 171-unit apartment building could change the look of Harvey Avenue near downtown…
Proposed massive Kelowna recreation centre may have affordable housing
An update of plans to replace Kelowna’s aging Parkinson Recreation Centre going to city council…
Hotel Eldorado lakefront boardwalk in Kelowna to remain open to public
After two years of court proceedings complicated by COVID, a B.C. Supreme Court decision will…
Cracked concrete in Kelowna parkade makes stairwell look like a crime scene
Using one of the stairways in Kelowna’s Library Parkade can be a little daunting these…
Long time Kelowna businesses facing extinction with eviction notices
A dozen businesses in the Dilworth shopping centre are being forced out as of July…
Kelowna considers May long weekend closure of Bernard Avenue downtown
The popularity of summer street closures in downtown Kelowna has grown to the point where…
Roughly 600 km of water pipes in Kamloops, Okanagan made with asbestos concrete
There are about 600 kilometres of asbestos concrete pipes carrying water to residents’ homes in…
No to drugs but yes to booze in Kelowna parks
Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas wants illicit drug use to be banned in all parks and…
Unique wine education, sampling centre planned for Kelowna a bust
All that remains of an historic building in downtown Kelowna that once housed its daily…
Unsightly downtown Kelowna façade may remain in place for another year or more
It has been well over a decade since Westcorp started making plans for a major…
Overcrowding making tent city part of Kelowna’s Rail Trail experience
There’s nothing much more beautiful than a walk or cycle down the Okanagan Rail Trail…
Kelowna community leader and politician Al Horning dead at 83
Former Kelowna city councillor, MP and MLA Al Horning died in hospital on March 20.…
Kelowna decides not to ‘rush’ decision on controversial golf course redevelopment
It’s a question that comes back again and again to Kelowna city council: What to…
Kelowna losing to inflation on $800 million worth of investments
The City of Kelowna has close to $800 million safely invested but is slowly being…
New Kelowna city council has a new-ish vision for the future
Every newly-elected city council starts off taking a few months to hammer out their priorities…
Kelowna’s Red Bird Brewing is expanding big time
It was just five summers ago that Red Bird Brewing opened its doors in Kelowna’s…
Kelowna wants to create more affordable housing but will wait for more studies
After almost two hours of discussion about the dire need for affordable housing in Kelowna,…
No second bridge over Okanagan Lake in Kelowna for at least 20 years: MOT
A new Central Okanagan transportation plan, almost a decade in the making, rules out the…