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COVID-19 testing site in Kelowna moving and expanding
Interior Health is relocating its COVID-19 testing site to 2180 Ethel St. in Kelowna effective…
Housing prices and sales continue to soar in Kamloops and Okanagan
The Okanagan and Kamloops real estate markets tend to cool off with declining fall temperatures.…
It’s not just COVID making life miserable for long term care residents
There has been such a focus of late on the declining health of residents isolated…
B.C. may have to adjust COVID-19 strategy to get more visitors into long term care homes
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has fought COVID-19 by ordering province-wide restrictions. Even in…
B.C.’s seniors advocate calls on province to make family members of longer-term care residents essential
After reviewing more than 13,000 surveys filled out by family members and residents of long-term…
OOPS: City of Kelowna accidentally published wrong tender information
Well, this is embarrassing. City of Kelowna staff accidentally published what appears to be internal…
UPDATE: iN VIDEO: Masks now mandatory at City Hall and other indoor Kelowna-run facilities
Kelowna is now requiring all visitors to any City run indoor facilities to wear a…
Slowly but surely Tolko’s Kelowna mill is coming down
Tolko Industries isn’t saying what the plans are for the Kelowna lumber mill that was…
Kelowna police are reviewing video tape images of City Hall vandalism
While the City of Kelowna has numerous surveillance cameras in its parkades, and places like…
If B.C. managed the pandemic like other provinces, the Fraser Valley would have strictest restrictions
If B.C. handled its second wave of COVID-19 like Quebec, the Fraser Valley might be…
Masks have been discussed since COVID-19 arrived: Here’s what you need to know
B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has strongly reccomended wearing masks in indoor public…
Fraser Health’s second wave of COVID-19 is still cresting over the rest of B.C.
With B.C.’s COVID-19 case counts continuing to rise, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry went…
Thompson-Okanagan’s largest cities score high on Canadian list of crime rates
When it comes to crime, B.C. cities rank up there with some of the worst…
B.C. health officials issue Halloween warning as hundreds of new COVID-19 cases reported
With 272 new COVID-19 cases being reported today, including seven in the Interior Health region,…
How B.C. compares to the rest of Canada, world on COVID-19
In the nine months the world has lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, this past month…
Kelowna mayor calls on senior government to deal with social problems behind high crime rate
Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran is calling on all levels of governments to help deal with…
Blame the California Senate when B.C. turns clocks back on Nov. 1
Even though 93 per cent of British Columbians want to stay on Daylight Saving Time,…
Injured hunter rescued in West Kelowna
Being properly dressed for cold weather paid off for a hunter who was rescued by…
Rising number of COVID-19 cases in Lower Mainland impacting Kelowna
While the vast majority of the 200-plus daily COVID-19 cases in B.C. are concentrated in…
Dr. Bonnie Henry says no to Halloween parties this weekend
With 234 new cases of COVID-19 and one more death, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie…
Car fleeing police in Kelowna caused power outage after hitting pole
A person allegedly fleeing police, crashed into a power pole in Kelowna yesterday. The incident…
West Kelowna fire deemed suspicious
A fire tore through an abandoned building in the 2700 block of Shannon Lake Road…
Interior Health region records third COVID-19 death
A 70-year-old man died of COVID-19 in the Interior Health region within the past 24…
Second huge West Kelowna housing project proposed
Less than a month after the Goats Peak residential subdivision was revived another development, that’s…