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City council to consider closing a section of Kamloops Rivers Trail

KAMLOOPS – A section of the Rivers Trail directly underneath the Yellowhead Bridge in Kamloops may be permanently closed. City staff are recommending the closure of roughly 200 metres of trail because of heavy erosion from water dripping off of the bridge. A report on the issue is going to city council at their regular...

Dropping wildfire threat reopens part of Knox Mountain Drive

KELOWNA – Although the majority of Knox Mountain Drive will remain closed due to the risk of wildfire, the road will be reopened to vehicles as far as the first lookout tomorrow. The Friday, Sept. 4 opening comes after the road was closed in July due to the high risk of fire. Urban Forest Technician...

Bertram Creek Park reopens after cougar sightings

KELOWNA – Officials have reopened the Bertram Creek Regional Park after sightings of a cougar in the area shut it down Wednesday. Regional District spokesperson Bruce Smith says signs about the recent sightings will remain up to warn residents of the ongoing risk. “Those using this and other Regional Parks in a more natural-setting should be...

Cougar sighting shuts down Kelowna park

KELOWNA – A popular Kelowna park has been shut down after a cougar was sighted earlier today, July 15. Bertram Creek Regional will be closed until further notice, says a release from the Central Okanagan Regional District. The release does not say who spotted the big cat but Kelowna RCMP and parks staff helped clear...

HELSTON: Not everyone is motivated by money, and we’re all better for it

You’ve probably heard your grandpa say it in a nostalgic tone: ‘Land: They’re not making much of it anymore.’ You only have to look at this Google image time lapse from 1984 to 2012 to see how much green space in Vernon has been lost in the last 30 years alone. Sure, people need houses...

Vernon man leaves legacy atop his beloved Middleton Mountain

VERNON - Many associate Middleton Mountain with the large housing subdivision that encircles it, but if you climb to the very top, you’ll find 90 acres of protected reserve land and one of the most spectacular panoramic views of Vernon. While developers were picking up land around Middleton Mountain around the 1980s, Roy Farnsworth, who...

Playground approved for Mission Recreation Park

KELOWNA – Councillors approved funding Monday for a new children’s playground in Mission Recreation Park. “Over the past few years, regular users have expressed a desire to install a playground to provide children of the participants a fun and safe play option when at the ball park,” says community recreation coordinator Chris Babcock. “After raising...

Munson Pond won’t be a park any time soon

KELOWNA – It’s a perfect place for a public park, wouldn't cost much and councillors love the idea—but Munson Pond will not open to the public any time soon. Munson Pond is roughly three hectares of city-owned property, hidden from view by cottonwood trees on the corner of KLO Road and Benvoulin Rd. Kelowna City...

RCMP bike patrol resuming next week

KAMLOOPS – While the Kamloops RCMP bike patrol is set to officially start next week, officers were spotted breaking in their bikes at Riverside Park on Thursday afternoon. The bike patrol is planned for the summer months. Members along with auxiliary volunteers will monitor parks, the downtown core and areas of the North Shore. “It...

Toilets will no longer stand above ancestral burial site

PENTICTON - The province is working with the Osoyoos Indian Band on an agreement to protect an ancestral burial site found in Haynes Point Provincial Park last month — but the park will close indefinitely starting this fall. Human remains were found inside the park April 29 and an agreement between the province and the...