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City Of Kelowna
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…
Despite some weak spots, Central Okanagan economy is holding up well
CENTRAL OKANAGAN – Despite a slowdown in construction starts and a drop in building permit…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Water Street high-rise site changes hands in Kelowna
KELOWNA – A downtown Kelowna property that can accommodate a 26-storey high-rise has just changed…
Housing strategy will see new housing forms, more protection of rental housing in Kelowna
KELOWNA – It has a benign sounding name — the Healthy Housing Strategy — but…
Kelowna adopts ambitious Journey Home strategy to end homelessness
KELOWNA – If all goes according to plan, Kelowna will reach functional zero homelessness by…
City of Kelowna employee pay up nearly five per cent in 2017
KELOWNA – With salaries $70.8 million of the city’s 2017 budget, the annual list of…
Pair of heavyweight homeless and affordable housing plans land before Kelowna council
KELOWNA – Not much opposition is expected to a pair of heavyweight housing strategies coming…
Family-size townhouses, apartment building recommended for Black Mountain by Kelowna planners
KELOWNA – A rezoning request for land off Highway 33 in Kelowna’s Black Mountain neighbourhood…
Kelowna replaces city manager with internal hire
KELOWNA – The city has gone internal in replacing its city manager, choosing veteran divisional…
Senior manager at City of Kelowna dies suddenly
KELOWNA – Rob Mayne, a senior manager at the City of Kelowna, died suddenly yesterday,…
How Kelowna plans to fund its massive backlog in undeveloped parkland
KELOWNA – Everybody loves a park and Kelowna councillors have proven no different, giving preliminary…
Kelowna homeless count shows big increase from 2016
KELOWNA – To no surprise, a head count of the homeless in Kelowna is showing…
Bike share program wheels into Kelowna
KELOWNA – A trial run of a bike share program began this week with a…