The city said fire and emergency crews were called to a construction site for a 48,000-square-foot, three-storey wood frame building at 453 Green Ave. at 10:12 p.m.
Businesses throughout downtown Kelowna are also ramping up preparations as Memorial Cup displays pop up across the city ahead of the tournament.
Bailey McCourt’s ex-husband, James Plover, is charged with first-degree murder and is awaiting a trial date. If approved by the Senate, the bill would move to receive royal assent.
A group of men wielding pool noodles and other objects could be seen coralling the family of geese toward the ledge of the Kelowna building.
‘We come here a lot and we normally like to meet a friend here,’ a seven-year-old Kelowna resident named Kaelyn told Global Okanagan.
Lauren Beckett, corporate communication advisor at FortisBC, told Global News on Friday that they have about 60 technicians on the ground in the area.
The chair of the Okanagan Basin Water Board says as drought fears ramp up, so too does planning as the region braces for what could be a very dry summer.
A low snowpack could mean drought and water restrictions for parts of the province this year, but it’s not a guarantee, hydrologist Jonathan Boyd said.
The province’s application for a court injunction to evict the roughly two dozen residents and dismantle the camp, along a busy stretch of Highway 97, has been postponed.