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A drive through the Adenta SSNIT Flats leaves one with just one impression: either residents do not care about their surroundings, or the fight against a clean, healthy environment is a lost battle for the community.
(JOHN MCDONALD / iNFOnews.ca) May 27, 2021 - 3:19 PM RCMP officers handed out more than 250 tickets to drivers in the North and Central Okanagan during a traffic safety initiative over the Victoria Day long weekend. Officers were aiming enforcement actions at aggressive drivers and conducting enforcement activities with the aim of improving safety on Okanagan roadways, according to RCMP media releases. The B.C. Highway Patrol recorded 165 speed related offences, 16 distracted driving charges, 14 seat belt violations as well as conducting nine impaired driving related inves...
A motorcyclist died after crashing into a car at the intersection of Northeast 13th Street on East University Avenue on Sunday.
May 22, 2021 - 9:34 AM In the past few months, West Kelowna businesses have reported an increase in violence, and threats of violence, towards loss prevention officers working to stop shoplifters. Because of this, West Kelowna RCMP said in a press release and said they rolled out a weekend long initiative targeting shoplifting and numerous businesses in the area, From May 14 to 15 members of the West Kelowna RCMP Community Safety Unit partnered with Loss Prevention Officers at local businesses. The RCMP officers used a combination of plainclothes and uniformed officers who ...
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/RCMP Mounties seized replica guns, drugs and stolen property during a search at a Kelowna house. Members of the Kelowna RCMP Community Safety Unit executed a search warrant at a residence in the 1000-block of Clement Avenue in Kelowna, May 6, in relation to suspected drug trafficking. “During the search of the residence, police seized quantities of suspected methamphetamine, crack cocaine, dilaudid, oxycodone, and fentanyl,” Cpl. Jocelyn Noseworthy of the Kelowna RCMP said in a press release. “They also seized a large amount of Canadian currency, several re...