Kelowna News

The City of Kelowna, BC Transit and design consultants VIA Architecture and MMM Group will host an open house March 13 on Queensway, in front of City Hall.

What this means for the Kelowna-headquartered company is that its modular workforce housing can be used in Alberta, and throughout Canada, because BigSteelBox has met the high standards set by the Alberta Building Code.

Jennifer Cusworth, 19, was last seen alive at a Kelowna house party in 1993. She was beaten and strangled, and her body was found in a ditch.

Three Okanagan schools have graded a perfect 10 out of 10 in the latest report be the Fraser Institute ranking all 982 public and independent elementary schools in BC.

The number of temporary foreign workers entering B.C. has taken off in recent years, nowhere more so than outside the province's biggest cities.

Vancouver writer Jane Eaton Hamilton is a CBC Short Story Prize finalist again, this time for Smiley.

The Lakeshore Road bridge over Mission Creek will be replaced in a major road-improvement project, slated to happen this year.

When Toby Pike started working for the South East Kelowna Irrigation District 20 years ago, the issues surrounding water management were different than they are today.

Intuition helps to zero in on the target. Walk on egg shells to bypass obstacles or negativity.

Carole Bennett, left, Angus McNee and his wife, Beryl, sing with the Silver Song Club of seniors every two weeks at Emmanuel Church in West Kelowna.

James Dessert, a Grade 8 student from Charles Bloom Secondary in Lumby, was the big winner of the 2014 Spaghetti Bridge contest held at Okanagan College's Kelowna campus on March 7. Dessert's bridge weighed in at a mere 994.99 grams, but more than held its weight as it took on 112.58 kilograms of pressure before collapsing before an enthusiastic ... (more)

What this means for the Kelowna-headquartered company is that its modular workforce housing can be used in Alberta, and throughout Canada, because BigSteelBox has met the high standards set by the Alberta Building Code.

It is going to cost the City of Kelowna another $1.12M to upgrade Lakeshore Road from Cook Road to Lexington Drive.

Website: http://www.tribunemetal.com Music: http://tribune.bandcamp.com/ Heavy metal brewers TRIBUNE are proud to announce their 2014 'CANADA SLAYS TOUR' kicking off in Kelowna, BC on April 3rd and will see the band trek as far East as Montreal, QC and return West to wrap up the tour in Nanaimo, BC on May 3rd.

Canada's unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.0 per cent in Febuary, Statistics Canada reported Friday.

RCMP Supt. Nick Romanchuk, left, and police services manager Kerry Solinsky look over plans for a new police building during an open house Thursday afternoon at the Royal Anne Hotel.

Kelowna residents will get their chance to learn more about the new RCMP building slated to be built at the corner of Clement Avenue and Richter Street.

After years of futility in his first six NHL seasons with the New York Islanders and Florida Panthers, the star goaltender found a home - and the playoffs - in Vancouver.

Mila Wittenberg and Benita Peiffer wrapped up B.C. Cup cross-country aggregate titles, while several other Whistler and Pemberton skiers finished high in the season rankings after the series concluded with the B.C. Championships in Kelowna over the weekend.

Former Kelowna girl Ingrid Hansen created the Little Orange Man and like his creator, he has an Okanagan persona you'll recognize on stage.