Kelowna News

Sometimes, even if you don't expect it, the cat does come back, it's just not always the very next day.

The resurgence in the Central Okanagan real estate market this spring has helped encourage renewed interest by developers to open up new residential building lots for sale.

On the heels of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in the Tsilhot'in First Nation's Aboriginal title case, an Okanagan First Nation is lobbying the federal government to purchase part of a defunct rail line between Kelowna and Vernon and return it to the First Nation.

Council received an update on City activities during the second quarter of 2014.

The home is professionally designed and built by Britco, with furniture and accessories from Lane Home Furnishings, a division of Yaletown Interiors; Jenn-Air and Maytag appliances supplied by Coast Wholesale; outdoor living package by Coast Spas Lifestyles; energy efficient home design in partnership with Power Smart and a $2,500 grocery package ... (more)

Jim Belshaw, chair of Soles4Souls Canada and owner of Roy's Shoes in downtown Kelowna, said the shoe bank fits nicely with Soles4Souls' vision of helping locals in need.

In the forests that surround Maple Ridge, you only have to dig a few metres to find a charred layer, evidence of a time when wildfires were more frequent is not difficult to find.

What is the cheapest airport to fly from in Canada? According to data from Cheapflights.ca 's Airport Affordability Index, you'll avoid the most taxes and fees by flying from smaller airports like Kelowna in British Columbia or Moncton in New Brunswick.

At about 4:15 p.m. Monday, a student with Okanagan Skydive was soaring above the Vernon Airport when he began to descend and struck a residence in the 2400 block of Myriad Road.

It claims to be Canada's largest concurrent dinner party and on Aug. 6 over 40 restaurants will participate in the Okanagan.

Dairy cows are pictured at the Kooyman family dairy farm in Chilliwack, B.C., Tuesday, June, 10, 2014.

Where's the worst place in Canada to be a home alarm salesperson? Perhaps surprisingly, if you said Toronto, you'd be right.

Nothing - not surviving a car wreck en route to his wedding, nor being a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, nor years in the pulpit - had prepared Dan Jackson for the challenge his daughter threw at him on a Saturday afternoon.

The words seemed to ring through council chambers Monday as city staff ran through a jam-packed agenda of projects like auctioneers at a cattle rattle.

A photo of Red Scorpion member Cory James Lesperance, 29, left. Lesperance tweets on MMA and it is believed he is posing here as a fan with an MMA fighter at an MMA event.

There's no question that the hodgepodge of gardens along CP Rail's Arbutus corridor are charming and no doubt that homeowners prefer gardens and a leafy walkway to trains.

A Langley teenager had his Lexus impounded after he was stopped driving at almost 200 km/h in Clinton, near Kelowna, on Friday afternoon.

As the cleanup got underway for what most have deemed a successful run for the Center of Gravity, organizer Scott Emslie admitted that putting together a profitable festival is becoming challenging.

"Our goal is to harvest unused fruit from backyard trees and share it with community members in need," said coordinator Alisa Senecal.

Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens' Services Andrew Wilkinson, Mayor Walter Gray and Premier Christy Clark make the $6M announcement Monday in Kelowna.