Julie Whittet

Kelowna's property owners are cautioned that careless behavior helps thieves get their job done. RCMP say over 70 per cent of car theft cases this year started with unlocked vehicles. According to the Kelowna RCMP First Quarter Report released today, incidents of car and bike theft in 2013 are particularly common in downtown and Rutland...

A woman waiting for the bus in West Kelowna this morning believes an unknown man tried to take her three-year-old daughter. Police are now looking to identify the man who ran from the scene. RCMP received a report just before 10 a.m. this morning of an attempted child abduction at the Dobbin Bus Exchange in...

It's no Mission Creek Greenway but nestled within Glen Canyon will be a recreational corridor linking two of West Kelowna's major communities.

At the foot of Kelowna's Dilworth Mountain sits the oldest industrial site of the B.C. Interior. Enclosed behind a seven-foot fence stands the wooden carcass of a mill built in 1871, once used to make flour from grain.  Two other houses of the same period sitting beside the large barn-like structure complete the 142-year-old Brent's...

Peachland's lakefront was glistening this afternoon with the sun bouncing off the freshly polished enamel of over 550 collector cars.  Antiques and their modern counterparts lined both sides of Beach Avenue for the World of Wheels Show and Shine car show today, giving visitors of all ages plenty of opportunity to oggle some of the...

Police are looking for a man caught on camera last April stealing someone's wallet from Kelowna General Hospital. The man pocketed $400 cash and two gift cards belonging to a KGH hospital worker. Video surveillance footage from April 10, 2013 shows the unkown man entering an office in the hospital's emergency ward leaving with a...

Women of all ages are invited to strip down and raise money for breast cancer this June. Peachland's ZipZone is hosting a Naked Ziplining fundraiser on June 20, 2013 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. No matter your shape, size or age, all women are invited as long as they pledge to raise $250. The...

Expect some extra company on the streets of Kelowna this weekend and not just from tourists. Uniformed RCMP officers will be out in full force, patrolling by vehicle, bike and on foot in amongst the crowds.  Constable Kris Clark says, "it's a visibility thing, if they can actually see us around, not just driving by,...

If gas prices have you cringing or last-minute camping plans fall through, there's an event-packed weekend to be had right here in the city. Thrill-seekers of all ages can head to the carnival grounds at the Rutland Centennial Park. In addition to the amusement park, you can taken in live music tributes to Johnny Cash,...

A West Kelowna residence has been cheating the system by growing marijuana plants with stolen electricity. Yesterday uniformed officers of the West Kelowna Drug Unit used a search warrant to investigate suspicious activity at a house on the 3400 of McGinnis Road. With enough evidence to obtain a Criminal Code Search Warrant the officers entered...

Despite a forecasted NDP comeback in last night's 40th Provincial Election, the party's campaign for change failed to hold sway over B.C. voters.    "We're a little somber here as we're cleaning up the campaign office,” says Tish Lakes who got 25.41 per cent of Kelowna-Mission's votes yesterday, running as an NDP candidate. Lake says...

Today people across the province will decide whether or not the B.C. Liberals get another four years of leadership. In Kelowna the traditionally Liberal-leaning voter demographic will be tested, as will the NDP's campaign for change. Polls opened at 8 a.m. this morning and will close at 8 p.m. tonight. Visit Elections BC to find...

Tonight's election results defied predictions with a stunning Liberal victory. But results for the Okanagan re-affirmed Kelowna's reputation as B.C.'s heartland of free enterprise, candidates here say. Voters in Kelowna re-elected all three of their incumbent Liberal MLA's: Ben Stewart for Westside-Kelowna, Norm Letnick for Kelowna-Lake Country and Steve Thomson for Kelowna-Mission. Numbers are still...

Projects totalling $523 million are looming on the city's eight year capital plan and councillors are questioning where the money will come from. Some funding is expected from government grants and development cost charges, but the rest will have to be borrowed or collected from taxpayers. While the capital plan sources $93 million from borrowing...

Over the past ten years Kelowna's RCMP officers have been working in increasingly crowded quarters. With the addition of new members the team has quickly outgrown the fifty-year-old building located downtown on Saint Paul Avenue. A $45 million dollar project announced by the City of Kelowna is about to change that.  By 2015 the city...