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Kelowna woman killed in head-on collision identified
KELOWNA – A head-on crash killed a Kelowna woman and injured one other person this…
UPDATE: Barfly says RCMP officer assaulted him after long day at the pub
LANGUAGE ADVISORY KELOWNA – A Kelowna man says a local RCMP constable assaulted him during an arrest at a downtown pub after 13 hours of drinking last summer. Const. Grant Jacobson pleaded not guilty to criminally assaulting John Patrick McCormick, 61, on the patio of Rose’s Pub in Kelowna at around 2 a.m. June 28,...
Kelowna housing market numbers reach pre-financial crisis levels
KELOWNA - The Kelowna housing market has reached levels not seen since 2008, right before the global financial crisis, when the local market was red hot. Both single-family and multi-family housing starts as well as total residental sales have been trending upward since then, according the Canadian Mortage and Housing Corporation’s spring housing market outlook....
Clerk pepper sprayed in Kelowna robbery
KELOWNA - Early Sunday morning a man entered the Mac’s Convenience Store on Richter Street demanding cigarettes before pepper spraying the clerk and fleeing the scene. Cpl. Joe Duncan with the Kelowna RCMP says they received the call around 2:30 a.m., May 24, that a man had robbed the Mac’s Store in the 2100 block...
Severe thunderstorm watch underway in much of Southern Interior
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - After a wet and wild weekend in the Interior another round of thunderstorms could hit the region. Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Nicola, South Thompson and Okanagan Valley regions for Monday, May 25. The weather office notes conditions are favourable for storms that could produce hail, strong wind...