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Airport names former Kelowna mayor and councillor to advisory committee

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - The group that advises Canada’s largest municipally-run airport will soon be joined by a couple of new faces familiar to people in the Central Okanagan. Kelowna’s former mayor Walter Gray and former city councillor Andre Blanleil, along with industry representative Meryle Corbett were all appointed to four-year terms on the Kelowna Internnational Airport...

New illegal drug intercepted from China, bound for West Kelowna

KELOWNA – Three men face drug charges after local police intercepted almost 13 kilograms of a rare drug bound for West Kelowna from overseas. Members of the Kelowna Drug Section received information that a package was bound for the Okanagan from China. Lab analysis confirmed the substance as ethylone, street name of MDEA or “Eve,”...

Attempted child abduction in Lake Country

LAKE COUNTRY – RCMP are on the hunt for a man who tried to grab two, six-year-old girls in the Lake Country area Sunday afternoon. Police say the suspect tried to lure the girls into a shed around 2:30 p.m., April 12. The girls describe the suspect as a Caucasian man, about 40-years-old, 6’ tall...

Old dynamite blown up by RCMP bomb squad in Kelowna

KELOWNA – Several sticks of dynamite found in Kelowna’s Joe Rich area on Sunday have been destroyed, but the police are concerned there may be more of the explosive out there. RCMP say they were called to the 8000-block of Sun Valley Road around 6:05 a.m., April 12 to a report of found explosives. “Police...

Construction and new demand in downtown Kelowna creating parking crunch

KELOWNA - Development in downtown Kelowna is surging, putting a premium on parking spaces, and forcing the city to come up with a plan to deal with perceived shortages over the next three years. Kelowna city council will hear from parking manager Dave Duncan today who prepared the interim parking strategy based on a report...