Kelowna News

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.

Med Access Inc. is a Kelowna-based company that provides electronic medical record services to 2,000 specialty and general practice physicians in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.

This week's column is dedicated to three friends who have passed away. Gary August has been a friend of the DeHart family for many years and I was happy to have seen him a few times last summer and fall.

It may not be the most optimal weather to deliver a rock to the house, but a group of curling enthusiasts didn't seem to mind.

The Bank of Canada is keeping its trendsetting, overnight interest rate at one per cent, where it has been since September 2010.

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.

Sculptor Kim Adams, photographer Angela Grauerholz and painter Carol Wainio are three of the veteran Canadian artists being honoured with the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

Marg Kentel, City Councillor: "I know what we're going to hear. Nobody's going to want it.

Skully, a two-and-a-half-year-old English mastiff-shepherd cross, is about to undergo critical surgery on one of her legs this week, and desperately needs a foster home in either Kelowna or West Kelowna to help her on the road to recovery.

Singer Jann Arden will return to the Okanagan after a five year absence to perform for the Kelowna MapleFest event on March 29 at Kelowna Community Theatre.

It hasn't always been a smooth ride for the Kelowna-born installation artist of Middle Eastern descent, whose works have occasionally been censored by Canadian authorities.

Meaning that the company is closing the unsaturated polyester resin and gelcoats facility in Kelowna, British Columbia, as of this June 27, 2014.

Authorities may never know what ignited the massive fire that leveled Kelowna, British Columbia-based Northern Lite Truck and Campers last week.

Crystal Mountain manager Mike Morin is working with BC Safety Authority investigators to try to figure why the chairlift behind him came off its track on Saturday.

What once was a dream, imagined while working at a mine site in Northern BC, is now a reality for local film maker Thomas Bowerbank.

Shane Koyczan still gets a chuckle out of remembering how he played hooky from work so he could travel to attend a poetry competition in the U.S.A. in 2000.