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Image Credit: City of Kelowna February 22, 2021 - 4:00 PM A housing project that the developer says may set the tone for redevelopment of Manhattan Point has been submitted to the City of Kelowna. “With the recent closure of the Tolko mill, it is anticipated that there will be significant redevelopment in this area,” states a letter from MCMI Developments Ltd. that accompanies the rezoning application. “The project has the potential to guide the form and character of thi...

“We do continue to postpone some in person surgeries and change the schedule for some daycare surgeries.”

“In 2020, the Kelowna RCMP detachment focused on property crimes through proactive policing, public campaigns and targeting known offenders."

"We remind everyone about the importance of using all of our layers of protection: maintaining a safe distance from others, washing our hands regularly, staying home when we are ill, using a mask in all public spaces and having robust COVID-19 safety plans in all businesses."

Image Credit: Submitted/West Kelowna Fire Rescue February 19, 2021 - 7:11 AM Fire officials have issued a warning about burning candles following what they say was an accidental fire at about 10:20 p.m. yesterday, Feb. 18 West Kelowna Fire Rescue rushed to a home in the 3100 block of Vineyard View Way in West Kelowna to find a fire in the basement of the home. Residents had already evacuated the building by the time they arrived. They quickly knocked the fire down before it c...

“The high rental rates illustrate the need for subsidized (affordable) rentals.”

“Many developers and builders are planning to move projects ahead in 2021.”

February 15, 2021 - 6:00 AM As developers keep pushing plans to lift Kelowna’s skyline higher – the latest being 46 storeys – firefighters aren’t worried about their ability to battle any blaze that may break out within those towers. In fact, it’s the older four-storey wood framed apartments that give them their greatest worry. “We have a concern if there is a fire in any building,” Kelowna fire prevention officer Paul Johnson told iNFOnews.ca. “But highrise b...

Image Credit: Submitted/Modo February 15, 2021 - 7:00 AM The car sharing movement in B.C. is largely in the hands of a co-op called Modo that’s striving to cut down on the number of personally owned vehicles in the province’s largest cities. Right now that includes 15 cars in Kelowna out of a fleet of 700. All the rest are in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island. “For every Modo that comes into a neighbourhood, about 10 cars are shed,” Selena McLachlan, director...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/City of Kelowna February 16, 2021 - 10:07 AM Ground won’t be broken on the downtown Kelowna UBC Okanagan campus for more than a year but developers are already lining up to be part of what at least one of them is now calling the “Downtown University Hub.” Chilliwack-based Kerkhoff Developments has sent a proposal to City Hall for a 41-storey residential tower on the southwest corner of Doyle Avenue and St. Paul Street, across Doyle Avenue from the...