City bankrolls neighborhood-building projects in Kelowna
1 day ago · The City of Kelowna is once again offering up to $1,500 in matching funds to support projects that bring neighbourhoods together. Ideas that have been supported in the past include community gardens, clean-up projects, block parties, and outdoor movie nights. Recently, a group of residents got ...
Another deadly year for construction workers in B.C.
1 day ago · Vilness is scheduled to speak Tuesday alongside Premier David Eby and union leaders at the Bentall Memorial in Vancouver. The event will mark the 44th anniversary of the deaths of four construction workers who fell 36 floors on Jan. 7, 1981 when they fell from a platform while building the Bentall IV tower.
Kelowna's top news story of 2024 - kelownadailycourier.ca
4 days ago · The problems at UBC Okanagan’s so-called ‘vertical campus’, which will rise 43 storeys to be the tallest building between Calgary and Vancouver, have raised questions about construction methods and the city’s building approval and oversight processes and, in some quarters at least, prompted a re-think about the desirability of such high towers in downtown …
New year begins with hefty pay raise for Kelowna mayor ...
1 day ago · A controversial pay hike kicked in on Jan. 1, lifting the salaries for seven of the eight councillors from $50,535 to $58,080. And the salary for Mayor Tom Dyas rose on Jan. 1 from $135,848 to $145,200. There hasn’t been a city council meeting since Dec. 9. They’ll have had a …
First win of 2025, Rockets back home tonight | News ...
3 days ago · The Kelowna Rockets nabbed their first win of 2025 with an exciting 6-4 victory over the Kamloops Blazers on Friday night at the Sandman Centre. Andrew Cristall scored twice while Max Graham potted the winner thanks to a shorthanded tally in the third period. The Rockets got off to a very quick ...
Vernon beats Warriors 5-2 | News | kelownadailycourier.ca
3 days ago · After starting the third period down by a pair, the Warriors were able to pull within one, as Ian Alonso scored his third of the season early in the final stanza, but the Vipers were able to add a pair of quick ones to stomp out any spark of a Warriors comeback.
Kelowna's 2024 Newsmaker of the Year | News ...
4 days ago · Wooldridge, a 39-year-old two-term Kelowna city councillor, is The Kelowna Courier’s Newsmaker of the Year for 2024. He came closer than anyone ever has to winning a seat for the NDP in a Kelowna riding, finishing only 40 votes behind BC Conservative victor Kristina Loewen, a margin so narrow it triggered an automatic judicial recount.