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July 15, 2021 - 3:14 PM After dropping to less than 40 new cases earlier this week, there were 54 new cases of COVID-19 reported in B.C. in the last 24 hours. Twenty of them were in the Interior Health region, up from the mid-teens earlier in the week. There were 19 new cases in the Fraser Health region, nine in Vancouver Coastal, five on Vancouver Island and one in the Northern health region, according to a Government of B.C. news release issued today, July 15. Out of 650 a...

Image Credit: Submitted/District of Peachland July 15, 2021 - 6:00 PM Peachland council spoke unanimously this week against allowing memorials of any sort in its parks — including community efforts to recognize children found buried near residential schools. “I don’t really want to see our beach front or public areas turned into shrines of some kind,” Coun. Keith Fielding said during Tuesday’s council meeting. “Maybe there is a need for some organized way of allowi...

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) July 14, 2021 - 5:41 PM Workers at the Site C construction site near Fort St. John are feeling the pain suffered by the families of the five men killed when a construction crane collapsed in Kelowna on Monday. “It’s so sad and everyone feels it,” Jennie Gagnon, project administrator with Aecon-Flatiron-Dragados-EBCPartnership, said in an email to iNFOnews.ca. “Our safety department will try to get the families a little more help.” There are...

July 13, 2021 - 5:10 PM Head to the North Okanagan or Costco in Kamloops quickly if you want to buy the cheapest gas around. Gasbuddy.com shows regular gas selling for $1.41.9 a litre in Enderby and Sicamous while most other stations in the Kamloops and Okanagan regions are at $1.55.9. The exception is Costco in Kamloops at $1.36.9. This comes despite the fact that the wholesale price of gasoline in Kamloops dropped last week and Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affor...

July 13, 2021 - 4:50 PM As the B.C. Liberal’s housing critic, Kelowna West MLA Ben Stewart has travelled the province hearing more and more concerns about the fact that people arrested for serious crimes are left to go back onto the streets while they wait for their trails. But the attempt by a West Kelowna man to light a forest fire last weekend was a step to far for him. That prompted him to send a letter to Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, ...

FILE PHOTO - The beach at Boyce-Gyro Park in Kelowna is seen in this undated file photo. Eight Okanagan Lake waterfront land owners on Watt Road, just north of Boyce-Gyro Park, have had their properties designated as future parkland by the city. (ADAM PROSKIW / iNFOnews.ca) July 13, 2021 - 6:00 PM Led by councillor Luke Stack, Kelowna city council resisted a strong lobbying effort by eight Okanagan Lake waterfront land owners on Watt Road and designated their properties as futu...

July 09, 2021 - 4:36 PM The Okanagans three major cities are issuing water restriction notices in the face of the ongoing heat and extremely dry conditions. “We’ve seen hot weather and very little rain in the past few weeks and that trend is predicted to continue through the summer,” Andrew Weremy, the City of Kelowna’s water operations manager, said in a new release announcing that Kelowna is moving to Stage 1 water restrictions as of July 12. “The change to Stage ...

Another 45 cases of COVID-19 were detected in B.C. in the past 24 hours. Almost half, 19, were in the Interior Health region, according to a Health Ministry news release issued today, July 9. Another 14 case were in the Vancouver Coastal health region, eight in the Fraser Health region, four in the Vancouver Island Health Region and no new cases reported in the Northern Health region. There are currently 661 active cases in B.C., with 181 of those in the Interior Health region. There are 73...

July 08, 2021 - 6:00 PM Despite gas prices being expected to drop in the Thompson and Okanagan regions over the next few days because of a drop in crude oil prices, stations in Kelowna have gone in the opposite direction. Yesterday, July 7, most gas stations in the Thompson and Okanagan regions, including Kelowna, were in the $1.40.9 to $1.43.9 range. A few Kelowna stations were showing on Gasbuddy.com as charging $1.55.9. Today, July 8, almost all of the 50 or so gas station...

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) July 08, 2021 - 5:15 PM With Kelowna’s Tolko lumber mill permanently closed and the adjacent B.C. Tree Fruits site being put up for sale, city staff want to move quickly to plan for the future of the entire North End of downtown. “The key element that has raised the urgency to deal with the North End immediately is the imminent question of the former mill site’s future,” states a staff report going to city council on Monday, July 12. The mill...