The only Okanagan Regional Library branch that remains closed should re-open by the end of September.
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A wanted man police tried to smoke out of his apartment earlier in the week was arrested Friday in Coldstream.
A passenger in a four-door pickup truck tried to grab an 11-year-old boy's backpack Friday afternoon, police said.
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A mid-month rise in COVID-19 cases can be traced back to British Columbians getting a little too close to one another over the Labour Day weekend, health officials say.
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A housing project in West Kelowna halted two years ago because of the provincial housing speculation tax appears to be back on track.
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Plans for a $25 million, 60,000 square foot aviation-themed conference, exhibition, and training centre - all contained in the shape of an airplane - have been submitted to the City of Kelowna.
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A total of 330 people across the Okanagan have been infected by COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, new figures from the government indicate.
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Schools across greater Kelowna will share almost $9 million in unprecedented federal funding to make classes safe for students.
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Thirty-three firefighters, two water tenders and a bucketing helicopter were working a blaze on Little White Mountain southeast of Kelowna on Thursday.
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Another single-day record for new COVID-19 cases was marked Thursday when 165 British Columbians tested positive for the disease.
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Owners of pubs and restaurants say their revenues dropped dramatically when the government ordered alcohol sales to stop two hours earlier.
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Air quality is gradually improving in some central and northern regions of B.C., but smoky skies are still forecast for the Okanagan on Friday.
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A former McDonald’s restaurant, now owned by the City of Kelowna, will soon be demolished.
Towns and cities across B.C. should get a slice of online gambling revenues, Vernon politicians believe.
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Passengers flying out of Kelowna’s airport will have to undergo temperature screenings as of next Wednesday as part of expanded safety measures.
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A $2-billion pipedream went full steam ahead into legal, financial troubles
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Nature is putting on a show as the brilliant red kokanee salmon are leaving Okanagan Lake to swim upstream in creeks and streams to spawn and then die.
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Eighteen firefighters remained on the ground after air tankers were called off a fire near Little White Mountain on Wednesday afternoon.
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Twenty new teachers have been hired by Central Okanagan Public Schools to connect with an estimated 700 students who’ll learn from home this fall.
Wife-killer Tejwant Danjou was sentenced this week to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 12 years, the B.C. Prosecution Service says.
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A development some say threatens a neighbouring heron nesting ground will have to come up with a protection and mitigation plan before proceeding.
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Plans for one of Peachland's biggest development projects in years will be considered at a public hearing Thursday.
Less than a day after it was ordered, a complete watering ban in East Kelowna has been lifted.
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VANCOUVER - Smoky skies have cleared slightly in parts of British Columbia but Environment Canada is maintaining air quality statements for the entire southern third of the province.
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The water in Okanagan Lake was just a couple degrees cooler than the Valley's air temperature on Tuesday.
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A decision on whether downtown Kelowna's popular outdoor skating rink will open this winter is on ice, for now.
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A delayed enrolment date of mid-November for Central Okanagan Public Schools has been chosen by the families of 853 Kelowna-area students.
My great grandfather – my mother’s paternal grandfather – William Charles Clement, died in Kelowna in March of 1911.
The Parkinson Recreation Centre pool will reopen to the public on Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean you can just dive in.
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stop the United States post office, the motto says, but smoke will stop mail delivery in B.C.
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Family and friends of Arlene Westervelt held a protest on the steps of the Kelowna courthouse on Monday demanding to know why the Crown had stayed murder charges against her husband.
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Convicted wife-killer Tejwant Danjou should spend the next 13-14 years in jail, a Kelowna judge heard Monday.
The pandemic has slowed the pace of building in Kelowna, figures from City Hall show.
A project proposed for Westbank First Nation land will provide housing for 52 people facing homelessness.
Eighty people were ordered to self-isolate as a result of a COVID-19 outbreak at the Okanagan Correctional Centre that was declared over Monday.
After dozens of bike outings, a kayak invitation was a welcome respite.
Improvements to City Park — including a new children’s playground and a circular pier — are envisioned in a project estimated to cost $4 million.
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Biosolids could be pumped 1.6 kilometres from Kelowna’s sewage treatment plant to a new processing facility on Byrns Road.
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What better way to celebrate a 20th anniversary than with bottles and bottles of sparkling wine?
A man resisting arrest was brought into custody by the Vernon RCMP’s police dog.
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Okanagan skies should offer a bleak throwback to summers past this weekend as smoke is expected across the Valley.
Almost none of the people in the Interior Health region who suspect they might have COVID-19 are testing positive for the disease.
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People who attended a party at a downtown Kelowna hotel in the early hours of Labour Day may have been exposed to COVID-19.
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There will be less pleasant days ahead, probably, than the summery conditions into which the first participants in this year’s annual Cops for Kids fundraiser set off Friday.
The organizer of Kelowna’s Great Closet Cleanout sales has figured out a way to bring them back during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are at a significant milestone in Canadian cannabis history.
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A delayed enrolment date of Nov. 13 has been chosen by the Kelowna area families of almost 400 students in kindergarten through Grade 9.
Big year for movies
A former Kelowna pharmacist has been suspended four weeks and fined $1,000 after admitting for a second time to dispensing narcotics and other drugs without prescriptions.
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The seemingly relentless cancellation of popular Kelowna-area events due to COVID-19 has now extended into 2021.
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One-third of our food relies on bees for pollination. It's that kind of important role that led the Okanagan's Jennifer Krezan and her husband, Brad, to start Hiveology in 2019. “Without the bees, farmers would face having to hand-pollinate many of our foods, but as this is labour-intensive …
Chief provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and health minister Adrian Dix provide an update on the province's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.