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City Of Kelowna
Water Street high-rise site changes hands in Kelowna
KELOWNA – A downtown Kelowna property that can accommodate a 26-storey high-rise has just changed…
Housing strategy will see new housing forms, more protection of rental housing in Kelowna
KELOWNA – It has a benign sounding name — the Healthy Housing Strategy — but…
Kelowna adopts ambitious Journey Home strategy to end homelessness
KELOWNA – If all goes according to plan, Kelowna will reach functional zero homelessness by…
City of Kelowna employee pay up nearly five per cent in 2017
KELOWNA – With salaries $70.8 million of the city’s 2017 budget, the annual list of…
Pair of heavyweight homeless and affordable housing plans land before Kelowna council
KELOWNA – Not much opposition is expected to a pair of heavyweight housing strategies coming…
Family-size townhouses, apartment building recommended for Black Mountain by Kelowna planners
KELOWNA – A rezoning request for land off Highway 33 in Kelowna’s Black Mountain neighbourhood…
Kelowna replaces city manager with internal hire
KELOWNA – The city has gone internal in replacing its city manager, choosing veteran divisional…
Senior manager at City of Kelowna dies suddenly
KELOWNA – Rob Mayne, a senior manager at the City of Kelowna, died suddenly yesterday,…
How Kelowna plans to fund its massive backlog in undeveloped parkland
KELOWNA – Everybody loves a park and Kelowna councillors have proven no different, giving preliminary…
Kelowna homeless count shows big increase from 2016
KELOWNA – To no surprise, a head count of the homeless in Kelowna is showing…
Bike share program wheels into Kelowna
KELOWNA – A trial run of a bike share program began this week with a…
Kelowna to boost developer incentives for rental housing construction
KELOWNA – In a continuing bid to encourage construction of rental housing, staff are recommending…
New fee would make developers pay to construct Kelowna parks
KELOWNA – Staff are recommending new ways to pay to develop parks in Kelowna including…
Little sign of progress easing Kelowna’s atrocious rental vacancy rate
KELOWNA – Four new housing agreements covering 436 purpose-built rental units in Kelowna were signed…
Devastating 2017 Mill Creek flood in Kelowna caused by years of neglect
KELOWNA – The immediate cause of last spring’s flood along Kelowna’s Mill Creek was an…
Central Okanagan politicians get to vote twice on a pay raise
KELOWNA – A tax change at the federal level means Kelowna city councillors who also…
Kelowna council fixes tax loss with pay raise
KELOWNA – Kelowna’s mayor and councillors voted to give themselves a significant increase in pay…
Can’t just change the plan: Kelowna council says no to airport hotel
KELOWNA – Landowners can’t just change their minds about what they want to do, especially…
Slumping slope could cost big bucks on Kelowna’s Knox Mountain
KELOWNA – Measurements being made this week and next will reveal whether a slumping slope…
UPDATE: Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran makes it official: He’s running again
KELOWNA – With clear blue skies as a backdrop, Colin Basran made official his bid…
Would-be rafters rescued from island in Kelowna’s Mission Creek
KELOWNA – Two people had to be rescued from the high, fast-flowing waters of Mission…
More bylaw officers to hit Kelowna streets this summer
KELOWNA – Visitors to Kelowna can expect to see a few more bylaw officers making…
Ellis Parc high-rise languishes under stop-work order in downtown Kelowna
KELOWNA – A stop-work order against a high-rise in downtown Kelowna is still in place…
Kelowna mayor flies to Regina in support of Memorial Cup bid
KELOWNA – The city hasn’t committed any serious cash yet, but Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran…