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Kelowna police found loaded guns, weapons at homeless bike chop shop
An officer with the Kelowna RCMP discovered a bike chop shop after a concerned citizen…
‘Scared to death’: Some homeless Kelowna campers feeling unsafe after man run over
A Kelowna man currently living at a homeless camp along the Okanagan Rail Trail says…
iN VIDEO: Flames fully engulf tent in Kelowna homeless camp
Members of the the Kelowna Fire Department and Kelowna RCMP saved the occupant of a…
Pop up homeless camp in Kelowna becoming a nuisance to nearby residents
Gordon Kaltenhauser says he is at his wits end and is running out of options in dealing…
Homeless camps still a reality in Vernon parks
VERNON - With nowhere else to turn, members of the homeless community continue to sleep in public parks in Vernon. A census done in October found six active homeless camps in the city, executive director for the Social Planning Council of the North Okanagan Annette Sharkey says. “That is up from previous counts, but not...
Bike camp gives new lease on life
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - A young man says a mountain bike camp aimed at helping those affected by substance abuse came at just the right time to save him from himself. “The past two years have been really hard for me, I got suicidal…. I was on lots of pills,” Cameron Model, 25, says. “This camp is...