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Kelowna adopts ambitious Journey Home strategy to end homelessness
KELOWNA – If all goes according to plan, Kelowna will reach functional zero homelessness by…
Short, sharp storm topples trees, power lines in the Okanagan
OKANAGAN – An overnight storm with major winds and rain has knocked over trees and…
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…
Once unheard of, Kelowna has had two water quality advisories in a row
KELOWNA – The City of Kelowna is about to rescind the water quality advisory it…
Kelowna can’t meet old greenhouse gas emissions goals, should change the target, staff say
KELOWNA – The city has given up trying to meet greenhouse gas emission targets it…
Taj Mahal or Travel Van: Two different takes on tourism promotion in the Okanagan
OKANAGAN – Both Kelowna and Penticton rely heavily on tourism but they are reaching out…
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…
Butt-tossers the target of West Kelowna sign campaign
WEST KELOWNA – With fire season underway, West Kelowna city councillors are putting out a…
Bike share program wheels into Kelowna
KELOWNA – A trial run of a bike share program began this week with a…
Kelowna to boost developer incentives for rental housing construction
KELOWNA – In a continuing bid to encourage construction of rental housing, staff are recommending…
$100 million plan put forth as fix for Kelowna’s Landmark Capri neighbourhood
KELOWNA – The city should spend close to $100 million in the Capri Landmark neighbourhood…
Kelowna Curling Club must replace chiller after Fernie ammonia tragedy
KELOWNA – The ice chiller in the Kelowna Curling Club is facing a mandatory replacement…
New fee would make developers pay to construct Kelowna parks
KELOWNA – Staff are recommending new ways to pay to develop parks in Kelowna including…
Infill housing allowing high-density catching on in Kelowna
KELOWNA – A new zoning that allows some property owners to build three or four…
Street angel has high hopes for Kelowna’s homelessness plan
KELOWNA – When I first meet JoAnne McKenzie, she’s smiling broadly walking down the freshly-scrubbed…
Kelowna’s ponds and marshes enjoying the end of drought
KELOWNA – The water levels in many of Kelowna’s ponds, marshes and low spots have…
Kelowna Rockets goalie coach still has eyes on the NHL
KELOWNA – So what could be cooler than a job that involves a secret door?…
Search on for underground water source on Kelowna’s Knox Mountain
KELOWNA – A hydrologist will be brought in to determine the source of water that…
Flood protection measures on Kelowna’s Mill Creek will continue into next year
KELOWNA – Mill Creek may have behaved itself this spring by mostly staying within its…
Little sign of progress easing Kelowna’s atrocious rental vacancy rate
KELOWNA – Four new housing agreements covering 436 purpose-built rental units in Kelowna were signed…
Kelowna runs afoul of privacy commissioner over Freedom of Information fees
KELOWNA – Trying to charge a citizen for providing them with their own personal information…
Devastating 2017 Mill Creek flood in Kelowna caused by years of neglect
KELOWNA – The immediate cause of last spring’s flood along Kelowna’s Mill Creek was an…
Central Okanagan politicians get to vote twice on a pay raise
KELOWNA – A tax change at the federal level means Kelowna city councillors who also…