Kljan2016

Police looking for help to find school vandal and vending machine thieves

CENTRAL OKANAGAN – Local RCMP in Kelowna, West Kelowna and Lake Country have a number of unsolved crimes they are asking the public for help solving. On Jan. 10, a Kelowna resident reported her black Honda Pilot had a smashed passenger window and was missing a black and white leather Roxy wallet. The wallet contains...

Winter perfect time to control rodent infestations

KELOWNA - Winter is the perfect time to trap and kill rats and mice, the City of Kelowna says. Cold weather limits food sources forcing the rodents to search further afield for food, including inside houses, urban forestry supervisor Blair Stewart says in a media release. Baited traps are more effective during food scarcity, Stewart...

Bus driver assaulted in downtown Kelowna

KELOWNA – A bus driver taking a break while on shift was assaulted in downtown Kelowna Friday night. Bill Harding, the manager of Kelowna Transit, says the driver was walking away from his bus at the Queensway exchange around 8 p.m., Jan. 8, when he felt a slight push on his back. “Somebody snuck up...

Kelowna baby never had a chance

KELOWNA - A Kelowna family is struggling to cope with news the baby they are expecting won’t live to see his first birthday. Kristy Youngman and her common-law husband John Sanderson’s 11th child is due this spring. An initial anatomy scan showed abnormalities so an in-depth ultrasound and genetic testing was done. According to Youngman’s daughter...

Heartbroken friends, family remember 22-year-old homicide victim from Summerland

KELOWNA – As RCMP continue to investigate the sudden death of a 22-year-old Summerland man, friends, family, teachers and those who only met him once or twice are paying tribute to someone who clearly loved life and won't soon be forgotten. Tura Stephen McCarty graduated from Summerland Secondary School in 2012. According to his Facebook...

Idling cars and air quality the subject of Okanagan College study

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - What the public thinks about idling vehicles and their effect on local air quality is the subject of a new study by an Okanagan College business student. Fourth-year student Alex Fullerton has developed the idling and air quality survey and an accompanying Facebook page, which directs participants to the anonymous questionnaire he...

Kelowna man fined for wooing investors for unlicensed mining company

KELOWNA - A Kelowna man has been fined and sanctioned by the B.C. Securities Commission for illegally distributing securities for an unlicensed mining company to four B.C. residents between 2009 and 2012. A commission panel determined last October that Rodney John Snider sold $21,000 in notes for Flag Resources, an Alberta mining company the TSX...

Hockey dad needs help putting on tournament for sick kids

OKANAGAN - A Kelowna hockey dad is looking for a little corporate muscle to put on the Winter Classic, an outdoor hockey tournament at Apex Mountain resort. Yannick Lescarbeau, who manages the Kelowna Minor Hockey Atom Development B team, started the tournament last year as a fundraiser for the SickKids Foundation. The tournament will pit...

Kelowna’s long distance love story goes viral

"IT WAS LIKE MEETING MY BEST FRIEND." KELOWNA - Tyson Noel knew his long distance girlfriend was working on a gift for him, but he never thought it would go viral and touch hundreds of thousands of romantics around the world. Noel, 26, and Mikki Miller, 25, met online seven years ago. Both are members...

Gloomy dark clouds over the Okanagan won’t part any time soon

OKANAGAN - That stifling grey pall of gloom hanging over the Okanagan is here courtesy of El Nino and Environment Canada says we can expect more of the same for at least the next ten days. Meteorologist Matthew MacDonald says we are at the mercy of major weather systems conspiring to blot out the sun. That...

Elderly woman sent to hospital after hit by car on Highway 33

POLICE SAY PEDESTRIANS AND DRIVERS NEED TO BE AWARE DURING SHORTER WINTER DAYS KELOWNA - An elderly woman knocked down by a car in a crosswalk on Highway 33 was an entirely preventable collision, police say. RCMP spokesperson Const. Jesse O’Donaghey said in a press release police have noticed an increase in pedestrian involved collisions...

Why you might have to shovel your sidewalk in Kelowna but your neighbour doesn’t

KELOWNA - The city deals with complaints about snow clearing every winter, but a resident upset over being forced to shovel a sidewalk they have no real access to has the city looking at a possible change. Coun. Brad Sieben says the resident contacted him after last week’s snowfall of about 15 centimetres. The current...

Three Kelowna residents arrested in stolen minivan

KELOWNA - A stolen minivan was recovered and three Kelowna residents arrested Monday night after a ‘high risk traffic stop’ at a hotel parking lot near Orchard Park Shopping Centre. The vehicle, which was reported stolen from the 200 block of Glen Park Drive on Jan. 9, was located by an officer driving in the...

Snowfall warning for Coquihalla Highway

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - While temperatures continue to warm up in town, a system is expected to drop enough snow on area highways today to prompt a snowfall warning for at least one section of highway. Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt, where up to 25 centimetres of...