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(CARLI BERRY / iNFOnews.ca) January 29, 2021 - 7:00 AM The legality of stopping churches from holding in-person services, including at least one in Kelowna, will hit a Vancouver courtroom on March 1. Kelowna’s Harvest Ministries International has been handed two $2,300 fines for holding in-person services and has joined the lawsuit, represented by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms out of Calgary. The court challenge will be heard in Vancouver from March 1 to 3....

It was a year ago today, on Jan. 27, 2020, that B.C. recorded its first case of COVID-19, a man who had returned from Wuhan province in China.Now, with 485

Two more people have died as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak at the Noric House long-term care home in Vernon.Interior Health announced the deaths in a ne

While down from the 900 or so daily cases of a few weeks ago, the 407 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, including 54 in the Interior Health region

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) January 27, 2021 - 7:00 AM Max Carbone not only helps newcomers get settled into Kelowna but he’s also a perfect example of why they’re flocking to the Central Okanagan. He and his wife, Anna, moved to Kelowna four years ago from Eastern Canada and bought Century 21 Assurance Realty. “I was fortunate to travel across Canada,” he told iNFOnews.ca. “I had a little grid on where is the best place in the country to live and my wife and I said, ...

More tech entrepreneurs have been starting up businesses in the Okanagan and the head of Accelerate Okanagan thinks it stems from people wanting to try some

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Penticton Search and Rescue January 25, 2021 - 11:11 AM In two separate instances on Saturday, Penticton Search and Rescue were able to rescue two women using cell phone to locate them. The first call came at 2:45 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, about a woman in medical distress while snowshoeing on the Nickel Plate Nordic trails near Apex Ski Resort, according to a Penticton Search and Rescue media release. A snowshoer was able to use his iPhone compass app t...

(ROB MUNRO / iNFOnews.ca) January 28, 2021 - 9:00 AM One Kelowna nurse regularly arrives an hour early for her 12-hour shift to begin her search for a parking spot while Kamloops nurses have approached that city trying to get access to city parking lots to make their commute to work shorter and safer. Another nurse told her union rep about having “scary people” yelling at her or following her as she walked city streets late at night to get to her car. “I was walking to ...

Image Credit: Submitted/Old Kelowna, Lesley Park January 23, 2021 - 8:00 AM Pat McBride was looking for a business venture to start up when he moved to Kelowna in the 1960s. So, after buying 100 acres of land from the Kirschner family that overlooked Mission Creek, he built a suspension bridge 300 feet above the sheer canyon walls in 1966. It was about a year later when the wind tunnel effect of those sheer walls became the project’s downfall. “It was a real hot day and ...

Image Credit: From Kirschner Mountain web page January 22, 2021 - 6:30 PM The sale of the Kirschner Mountain housing development to a Manitoba buyer for $22 million may be the largest property transaction ever in the Okanagan. Plus, it allows a pioneering Okanagan family to finally retire. “It’s the biggest sale ever through the MLS system,” Max Carbone, owner of Century 21 Assurance, which sold the property, told iNFOnews.ca today, Jan. 20. “There may have been priva...