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Kelowna RCMP continue search for missing senior

Kelowna RCMP continue search for missing senior

Apr 23, 2024 / 2:25 pm

UPDATE: 2:25 p.m. Kelowna RCMP say a search is underway in the area around Beaver Lake and Dee Lake roads for Allan Francescutti. RCMP say officers and members...

Kelowna, West Kelowna on new provincial housing target list

Kelowna, West Kelowna on new provincial housing target list

Apr 23, 2024 / 1:27 pm

The Ministry of Housing has unveiled its second list of B.C. "priority communities" identified to receive housing targets. Kelowna and West Kelowna...

Kelowna woman wins $675,000 in Set for Life lottery

Kelowna woman wins $675,000 in Set for Life lottery

Apr 23, 2024 / 11:01 am

Maureen Lee was speechless after learning she had hit it big in the Set for Life Lottery. The Kelowna retiree won the lottery's top prize of $675,000. Lee...

Arkells and Evanesence planning tour stops in Kelowna

Arkells and Evanesence planning tour stops in Kelowna

Apr 23, 2024 / 10:00 am

A pair of concerts were announced Tuesday morning for Kelowna's Prospera Place. Canadian rock band the Arkells will be playing Prospera on Nov. 14, 2024....

Some risk ahead for Kelowna's water supply

Some risk ahead for Kelowna's water supply

Apr 23, 2024 / 4:00 am

The planning manager for Kelowna's utilities is painting a less than rosy outlook for Kelowna's water supply. While Rod MacLean says the drinking water...

RDCO open burning season set to wrap up April 30

RDCO open burning season set to wrap up April 30

Central Okanagan Apr 23, 2024 / 4:00 am

The wildfire season is off to an early start in B.C., but open burning is not being curtailed ahead of schedule in the Regional District of Central Okanagan....

Ballet Kelowna reprises its full-length adaptation of 'Macbeth'

Ballet Kelowna reprises its full-length adaptation of 'Macbeth'

Apr 23, 2024 / 4:00 am

Back by popular demand, a Shakespeare classic is returning to the Kelowna Community Theatre. Ballet Kelowna is set to close its season with the return of...

UBCO business students win simulated business competition

UBCO business students win simulated business competition

UBCO Apr 22, 2024 / 8:00 pm

A group of UBC Okanagan business students came home with the top prize at the Argus Cup business challenge recently. The Peachland Andrews team of Kelly...

Local Canadian Home Builders' Association starts scholarship for female students

Local Canadian Home Builders' Association starts scholarship for female students

Apr 22, 2024 / 7:00 pm

The Central Okanagan chapter of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association has launched a scholarship to help female students who are taking a...

3 Kelowna councillors fail in bid for remuneration vote do-over

3 Kelowna councillors fail in bid for remuneration vote do-over

Apr 22, 2024 / 5:40 pm

The final vote on adoption of a new Kelowna council remuneration package will stand — unanimous, despite attempts by three councillors for a do-over....

Gallagher’s Canyon community prepares for fire season

Gallagher’s Canyon community prepares for fire season

Apr 22, 2024 / 1:32 pm

A resident of Kelowna’s Gallagher’s Canyon says its a matter of when, not if a wildfire affects the community. Regan Borisenko is the emergency...

Homicide investigators called in after body found in creek east of Kelowna

Homicide investigators called in after body found in creek east of Kelowna

Apr 22, 2024 / 11:23 am

The Southeast District RCMP’s major crime unit has taken over the investigation after a man's body was found in a creek near a forestry road off Big...

Rotary takes over performing arts festival from Kiwanis Club

Rotary takes over performing arts festival from Kiwanis Club

Apr 22, 2024 / 11:16 am

The Kelowna Kiwanis Festival is no more, but in name only. After nearly a century, the showcase of local youth performers has a new title sponsor, the Rotary...

Interior hotel, GM and chef up for BC Hotel Association awards of excellence

Interior hotel, GM and chef up for BC Hotel Association awards of excellence

Thompson-Okanagan Apr 22, 2024 / 10:43 am

The Thompson-Okanagan has three nominees for BC Hotel Association Awards of Excellence that will be revealed early next month. The finalists for the seven...

Okanagan Clinical Trials is looking for Type 2 diabetes patients for study

Okanagan Clinical Trials is looking for Type 2 diabetes patients for study

Apr 22, 2024 / 10:42 am

If you're living with type 2 diabetes and are between the ages of 19 and 75, Okanagan Clinical Trials would like to hear from you. Okanagan Clinical Trials...

Tick season has arrived in the Thompson-Okanagan

Tick season has arrived in the Thompson-Okanagan

Thompson-Okanagan Apr 22, 2024 / 4:00 am

Tick season is here, and although Lyme disease isn't the dominant tick-borne illness across the Okanagan, it is becoming more prevalent. Janet Sperling,...

Kelowna RCMP searching for missing senior

Kelowna RCMP searching for missing senior

Apr 21, 2024 / 6:35 pm

Kelowna RCMP are asking for the public’s help locating a missing senior. Mounties say an 80-year-old man has been missing since April 16. Family is...

Man finds body in a creek on forestry road near Big White Saturday

Man finds body in a creek on forestry road near Big White Saturday

Big White Apr 21, 2024 / 1:50 pm

A deceased person was found in a creek near a forestry road off Big White Road Saturday afternoon. Big White resident Eric Bergeron was riding quads with his...

Kelowna's Summit insurance company raises $3.5 million during seed round

Kelowna's Summit insurance company raises $3.5 million during seed round

Apr 21, 2024 / 1:00 pm

A Kelowna commercial insurance brokerage and risk management firm has generated $3.5 million during its seed round of financing. Summit, which was founded in...

Castanet Event Calendar with Brayden Ursel

Castanet Event Calendar with Brayden Ursel

Thompson-Okanagan Apr 21, 2024 / 12:00 pm

A sneak peek of upcoming events in the Thompson-Okanagan this week.

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