Julie Whittet

KELOWNA - There won't be too much time to savour your wine on an upcoming festival tour. America's Wine Country Half Marathon is coming to Kelowna this September inviting runners to complete a 13 mile circuit through orchards and vineyards with a rest stop opportunely stationed at a winery. Those tagging off with relay parters...

KELOWNA - It's been 21 years since Kevin Kane, Tom and Chris Hooper have played in Kelowna. But with a brand new album produced by Toronto's Aporia Records, The Grapes of Wrath are trekking their way back to their hometown. The folk-rock trio will be giving a free concert in Waterfront Park across from Skyreach...

KELOWNA - Ensuring downtown business is hopping and streets are clean and safe comes at a cost. For the fifth time since 1989, city councillors today approved yearly funding for the Downtown Kelowna Association. With updated boundaries for its business improvement area, the association projects $780,850 from the City come 2014 and by 2018 that...

KELOWNA - Slurpees, lollipops, a stilt-walking balloon artist and monster truck gave the young at heart plenty to see and do Saturday on Bernard Avenue. The city's main street was closed to traffic for the 24th annual block party celebration. While live music, dog shows and outdoor fitness classes kept the grown-up crowd busy, it...

KELOWNA - Barry Planedin is a pretty relaxed guy for running one of the busiest shops in the city. As the owner of Okanagan Beach Rentals at Rotary Park, Planedin is in his element working in Kelowna's mecca for watersports. “We're so laid back in how we conduct everything. We're not too particular about keeping...

KELOWNA - It's a sure fire sign that when celebrities like Hilary Duff are out wakeboarding on Okanagan Lake, Kelowna is the place to be this August. And with the new school year just around the corner and the Okanagan weather at its peak, this weekend is the perfect time to squeeze out a few...

KELOWNA - It only comes once a year: a day to roam free along downtown's main street without a car in sight. This Saturday, Bernard Avenue is open to pedestrians only for the city's annual Mardi Gras style block party. It's the 24th year the festivities take over downtown Kelowna but this weekend's celebration is...

KELOWNA - Dawna Davies was out walking with her two daughters when she smelled smoke coming from Lester Road. Concerned the smoke wasn't coming from a barbeque, Davies followed the smell to the scene of Tuesday's condo fire at 500 Lester Place. At 7:20 p.m. Davies, who lives on Sylvania Crescent, says she was the...

KELOWNA - A West Kelowna man is now is police custody for scamming two downtown shops with a fradulent credit card scheme. On Monday the man managed to purchase $565 in clothing from Mac D's Lakeside on Bernard Avenue without using any cash, card or ID. Telling the store clerk he was robbed of all...

WEST KELOWNA - A Supreme Court justice has decided the District of West Kelowna had the legal right to remove houseboats moored in Gellatly Bay. Back in July of 2010 the district decided a number of houseboats were breaching the recreational zoning of Gellatly Bay, giving houseboat owners notice to move elsewhere. The issue came...

KELOWNA - The days of jaywalking across Dilworth Drive to shop at the farmers' market are coming to a close.  After ten years of discussion, Kelowna will finally be getting a permanent, year-round, Granville Island-style public market. And for a city with some of the best growing conditions in the world, the time is ripe....

KELOWNA – An influx of tourist dollars is not the only thing Center of Gravity brought to the city this past weekend. A strong gang presence, drug deals and public drunkenness kept police and special enforcement teams extra busy during the three-day electro-dance festival that drew a crowd of 30,000. Kelowna RCMP received a total...

TOXICOLOGY AND AUTOPSY WILL TELL THE REAL STORY KELOWNA - Kelowna RCMP say they need more information before they can confirm speculation that a seventeen-year-old Kelowna girl found dead in her bed last Friday morning died of a street drug police warned the public about last week. The B.C. Coroner's service is investigating the sudden death...

KELOWNA - Should the city be putting a tourism building in one of its most prized park spaces? After a public survey on City Park re-designs closed July 15 the conversation - and controversy - is still going strong about whether the city should make room for a new visitor's centre in the park. City...