Kelowna News

City Council faces opposition from some residents and businesses alike as it moves ahead with plans to move transport and heavy trucks from Ellis Street to Gordon Drive.

By Alistair Waters - Kelowna Capital News Published: May 24, 2013 10:00 AM Updated: May 24, 2013 11:08 AM Saturday, May 25, will mark five years since the first three lanes of the five-lane bridge opened, an event celebrated in 2008 by a public walk across the new bridge by the man it is named after, former B.C. premier Bill Bennett.

A new, affordable supply of potable water is now available in the District of West Kelowna with the commissioning of a filling station at Asquith and Shannon Lake Roads.

According to Environment Canada no significant additional rainfall is forecast at this time, and river levels are expected to continue to drop through the weekend.

The road is closed in both directions 5 km north of Junction with Highway 3A. Estimated Time of opening currently not available and assessment in progress.

Every year the Muttitt property in Joe Rich floods. This year waters have been running through and around the abandoned homestead for several weeks.

Seven teams braved pouring rain and high winds, to ride through city streets to raise funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Update 4:30 p.m. Thursday - The District of West Kelowna has been able to reopen the Boucherie Main Ball Field on East Boundary Road due to a break in the rain Thursday afternoon.

Stories like those told by Mary Statham and Tracy Dobinson are hard to listen to, but they are the tales that will be the driving force of change across the country.

A luxury vacation home complete with private moorage and a wine cave is up for grabs to the highest bidder June 25th, 2013 with no minimum or reserve.

Canadian managed hosting provider Tenzing Managed IT Services announced on Thursday it has opened its first US data center in Dallas, Texas to support the company's growing number of cross-border e-commerce customers.

By Wade Paterson - Kelowna Capital News Published: May 22, 2013 4:00 PM Updated: May 22, 2013 4:05 PM West Kelowna is giving up its fight to convert the couplet-which chops the community's downtown core into three sections-into a single highway along Dobbin Road.

Clint Schoening of West Kelowna has been identified as the man killed in a motorcycle accident Saturday night on East Side Road.

Cary Berger, Manager Police Services, Shari Wilson with Police Victim Services and Mike Kakoske, Manager Orchard Park BC Liquor Store A decades long program which has aided both Police Victim Services and charities in general has been recognized for its work in the community.

The Heart and Stroke Big Bike will be rolling around Kelowna city streets this week.

Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon was shot dead outside a Kelowna resort in August 2011 and his Hells Angel friend was critically wounded.

By Jennifer Smith - Kelowna Capital News Published: May 09, 2013 2:00 PM Updated: May 10, 2013 10:36 AM Cam Penner and his "sweetheart" wanted to build a deer fence, writing a new record was more of a side note.

By Jennifer Smith - Kelowna Capital News Published: May 09, 2013 2:00 PM Updated: May 09, 2013 3:38 PM In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a West Kelowna RCMP officer was on patrol when he pulled over a Chevy Silverado for a burnt out headlight.

By Maxine DeHart - Kelowna Capital News Published: May 08, 2013 3:00 PM Updated: May 08, 2013 3:44 PM A fter 43 years at the helm, Barry Lapointe , owner, president and CEO of Kelowna Flightcraft, is stepping aside from his day-to-day duties of running the company.

By Maxine DeHart - Kelowna Capital News Published: May 01, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: May 01, 2013 1:55 PM K eith Eisenkrein , of Ogopogo Stucco and Masonry, has been in business for the past 12 years.