After more than seven months without water, residents at Kelowna’s Tent City are thirsty. Each fall, the City of Kelowna shuts off the water to all fountains around the city to prevent freezing pipes, including the spout at the designated encampment for people experiencing unshel...
A former NHL player who played for the Vancouver Canucks has been taken to small claims court by the City of Vernon over more than a dozen unpaid parking tickets. According to court documents filed on Feb. 24, Aaron Volpatti racked up 13 unpaid tickets between November 2023...
As temperatures drop, and Kelowna’s unhoused population attempts to stay warm, residents at the city-maintained Richter Street encampment are asking for safety precautions like fire extinguishers, proper fire pits, running water and electricity to be provided in order to mitigate the ...
The tenant added that she watched the neighbouring Kelowna Legion and CoLab building get evacuated at the end of last year and now to have her own apartment evacuated, it feels as though she’s being looked past once again due to the lack of communication and support fro...
Erica Stewart has been living at Kelowna’s city-maintained encampment, colloquially called ‘Tent City’, for the past 1.5 years. Despite the fact that she lives in a tent at the busy encampment and often does not know where her next meal will come from, Stewart is a fierce advocate ...
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Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran delivering his annual State of the City address to the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce Friday. —Image: Alistair Waters/Capital News Update— 4:30 p.m. Kelowna city council has settled on a 4.43 per cent provisional property tax increase for 2019. ...
Since November, Jordan Paolinelli has dedicated all her spare time to metamorphosing into a different person. The pretty, long blonde haired woman has let the power of the theatre carry her away. With a soprano voice of an angelic siren, she has taken on the role of Sophie in the co...
Reading from a Kelowna Capital News article, Nahal said the geese were introduced to the area in the 1960s. While they were once hunted, that practice has not been sustained and the geese have become a nuisance. “We’ve got Kin Beach unusable, Marshall Fields is just covered and Polson...
Monaco development approved by Kelowna city council - Kelowna NewsThird-time proves lucky for developers of the twin-tower commercial, residential and hotel development downtown.Alistair Waters