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City Of Kelowna
Councillors grill Kelowna airport officials over ‘unusual’ budget increase
KELOWNA – A $2.2 million mid-cycle budget request by Kelowna International Airport is uncommonly large,…
Kelowna planners expect few home-growers after cannabis legalization
KELOWNA – Canadians will soon have the right to grow a small amount of cannabis…
Kelowna’s new cannabis retail regulations won’t allow a pot shop on every block
KELOWNA – City planners have identified over 900 possible locations for retail cannabis stores in…
Stalled Westcorp hotel, condo project seeks changes from Kelowna council
KELOWNA – Design changes to the interiors of residential units in the as-yet unnamed Westcorp…
Pot shops and where they can go up before Kelowna council
KELOWNA – Tourists wandering down Leon or Lawrence Avenues looking for a little bud after…
Why beach access, park development should matter to Kelowna voters
KELOWNA – If Kelowna would properly fund development of the lakeshore parkland and foreshore lands…
Dropbike success could help Kelowna fight chronic traffic congestion
KELOWNA – The continuing uptake of the new Dropbike service in Kelowna could soon make…
Kelowna mayor welcomes Pride Week festival and march
KELOWNA – Mayor Colin Basran ended one of the few remaining council meetings before the…
Patient housing and parking around Kelowna General Hospital in front of council
KELOWNA – Parking in the neighbourhood around Kelowna General Hospital looms large for city council…
Rutland Seniors Centre will remain closed ‘until further notice’ due to fire
KELOWNA – As feared, a fire at the Rutland Seniors Centre has disrupted a vital…
Unwanted paper, plastic starting to pile up in the Central Okanagan
KELOWNA – As much as 500 tonnes of contaminated recyclables may be sitting in the…
Kelowna’s Inn from the Cold will survive, fate of displaced homeless shelter residents not so certain
KELOWNA – As far as social service agencies go, Inn from the Cold is the…
Business signs to get smaller, less garish as Kelowna adopts new sign bylaw
KELOWNA – A "confusing and contradictory” bylaw governing the placement of signs on Kelowna buildings…
Kelowna can’t meet climate change targets, wants to move the goal posts
KELOWNA – The final toll will likely sound tomorrow night for Kelowna’s greenhouse gas emission…
Rutland senior centre fire damages much more than just the building
KELOWNA – Outside the Rutland Seniors Centre, Sue Lord could only shake her head as…
Digital, portable signs in the sights of new Kelowna sign bylaw
KELOWNA – Vegas-by-the-Lake is not what we want when it comes to signs on private…
Top 10 corporate taxpayers pay five per cent of all Kelowna property taxes
KELOWNA – You may be just getting over the sting of paying your annual property…
Despite some weak spots, Central Okanagan economy is holding up well
CENTRAL OKANAGAN – Despite a slowdown in construction starts and a drop in building permit…
Three months after stop work order, construction to resume on Kelowna high-rise
KELOWNA – Work is finally set to resume on Ellis Parc, a high-rise being built…
Look to Vancouver, Victoria for short-term rental regulation model in Kelowna
KELOWNA – There’s well over a 1,000 short-term rental properties in Kelowna, most of them…
Receding Okanagan Lake will reveal final bill from 2018 flood damage in Kelowna
KELOWNA – What a difference 57 centimetres makes. That’s the difference between the final lake…
High-rise fever continues in Kelowna with another tower proposal
KELOWNA – Another possible high-rise development has been proposed for downtown Kelowna. Currently a parking…
Property tax line-ups over, Kelowna counts it up
KELOWNA – It’s going to take a few more days to count it all up…
Demand for Dropbikes big in Kelowna after long-weekend hard launch
KELOWNA – The city’s pilot bike share project is going well enough that the project’s…