Kelowna News

If the future of our region is dependent on a skilled workforce, the Okanagan is in good shape.

Construction season shifts into high gear in the District of West Kelowna April 22 with the start of upgrades and required traffic rerouting at Westlake Road between Highway 97 and Starlight Crescent.

Listening to David Black speak in Kelowna this week, it was hard not to get behind his idea of a made-in-B.C. oil refinery that would create thousands of jobs for the hard-done-by communities of Kitimat and Terrace, sparking the B.C. economy and bringing in millions, if not billions of dollars from China.

Mark Garneau, the MP for Westmount-Ville-Marie and the first Canadian in space, discussed veterans issues at a town hall meeting in Kelowna on Thursday.

Saber rattling escalates. Demands for freedom are more aggressive. Try to contain confrontations or combat .

The event kicked off with a Zumba class before the ribbon was cut and runners filed out of City Park.

The Grooveyard owner LeAnne Jakubeit, left, and assistant store manager Jasmine Lamont pull out new vinyl albums and 45s for Record Store Day.

Yukon Blonde will perform in concert May 19 in Kelowna's City Park. Free tickets are available at redbull.ca/yukonblonde.

Rev. Karen Medland, front, of First United Church, and Rev. Pat Giannelia, with Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, carry a wooden cross to the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Centre in Kelowna during the 20th Good Friday Way of the Cross walk.

The dangerous offender hearing for David Bobbitt is slated to start June 9 in Penticton and last for four weeks.

Jan Rustad with Tim Simmons in the cockpit of one of the HNZ Topflight helicopters at the Penticton base.

Jeff Cameron, from the Buckerfields on Springfield Road, said their store cat Annie was returned home at around 11 a.m. Wednesday, after being stolen last Saturday, and it was as though she'd never been gone.

The $14.3 million facelift and underground utility replacement of Bernard Avenue, the city's main downtown street, is nearing completion.

The Vancouver Canucks have the sixth overall pick in the June 27-28 NHL Entry Draft.

An Abbotsford police officer has been named an "All Star" with Alexa's Team, consisting of RCMP and municipal officers committed to reducing the number of impaired-driving deaths in B.C. Const.

Norman Cocks , 31. a full-patch Hells Angels member, is shown with dad Robert Cocks, 53, a member of the Throttle Lockers, an HA support club.

Barbara Hart has been finding it easier to sleep at night this spring now that she doesn't have to worry about nearby McDougall Creek being breached by high stream flow.

Drywall work on a $150 million condominium project in downtown San Diego has been halted after California officials discovered that the subcontractor was unlicensed in the state.

John Gladstone left his home community of Skidegate for Vancouver nearly a decade ago, and he has no plans to return.

Despite a mental illness, the Kelowna man charged with murdering his mother goes to trial in November.