Category Archives: News

Top Stories - Mar 30 - Distracted
During a two-day "Distracted Driving Blitz" the Kelowna RCMP was set up at several locations around the city and distributed 45 violation tickets and charges. Most of them were for talking on the phon...
Russ Byth Mar 30, 2023

Top Stories - Mar 29 - Budget Details
The federal government released a budget that prioritizes spending on health care, a clean economy and affordability measures to help deal with inflation. Some of the spending includes $13 billion for...
Russ Byth Mar 29, 2023 Canadian Press

Top Stories - Mar 28 - Chapman Place Shooting
One person was shot and another was taken into custody early yesterday morning in a building on Chapman Place in Kelowna. RCMP say the two people were known to each other and there is no danger to pub...
Russ Byth Mar 28, 2023

Top Stories - Mar 27 - Grass Fire Damages Home
The temperatures may not be hot around here yet, but the grass is certainly drying out. West Kelowna firefighters had to deal with a grass fire on Shamrock Drive on Friday that got a little bit too cl...
Russ Byth Mar 27, 2023

Top Stories - Mar 24 - New U.P.C.C.
Health Minister Adrian Dix was in Rutland yesterday to announce that a new urgent Primary Care Centre will open in the area this fall. It will be located on Highway 33 West by Rutland Road North, and ...
Russ Byth Mar 24, 2023

Top Stories - Mar 23 - Stay Off Fields
It may be tempting to kick a soccer ball around on the fields but the City of Kelowna would like people to stay off them for now. The grass needs to be fully dried out and actively growing before the ...
Russ Byth Mar 23, 2023

Top Stories - Mar 22 - Video Needed
Kelowna RCMP are still asking for any dash cam footage from around Highway 97 and McCurdy between 10:15 and 10:45pm last Friday. An international student was assaulted by a gang and suffered injuries ...
Russ Byth Mar 22, 2023 go fund me

Top Stories - Mar 21 - West K Fire
You may have seen the smoke on the West Side yesterday morning. The fire department says two homes were damaged and an RV destroyed in the blaze on Shannon Woods Crescent. Damage is still being assess...
Russ Byth Mar 21, 2023

Top Stories - Mar 20 - Technical Rescue
The Kelowna fire department had to do a technical rescue in Canyon Falls Park on Saturday afternoon. A 21 year old woman had fallen and injured her leg while hiking by a waterfall about an hour's walk...
Russ Byth Mar 20, 2023

Top Stories - Mar 17 - More Sweeping
Kelowna started this week and West Kelowna will start street sweeping next week. Crews will begin in the Gellatly Bay, Glen Canyon and Goats Peak neighbourhoods and work their way to higher elevations...
Russ Byth Mar 17, 2023