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Conservative MLA Gavin Dew hosted a town hall on crime and social disorder in Kelowna on Wednesday, attended by about 200 concerned residents.

“It’ll save my life… it’ll change everything. Over the last six months, the last year, my doctors have sent letters to the neurosurgeon and haven’t heard a thing,” he said. 

Police say the first incident happened around 6 a.m. . Then, just 24 hours later, it happened again.

Three of the organization's service vehicles were badly damaged in a vandalism incident that happened sometime between midnight Friday and Saturday morning.

The city is hosting several major events this spring and summer starting with the Memorial Cup in May.

Residents in the Tallus Ridge and Shannon Woods neighbourhoods went five days without being able to drink their tap water after a security breach at the Tallus reservoir.

For now, the chainsaws have quieted, but for many who live nearby, the debate over what’s been lost and what comes next is far from over.

On Thursday, West Kelowna city workers were notified of an alarm at the Tallus Ridge water reservoir and upon inspection, they found what they believed to be intentional damage.

'If you look up any of the clips on YouTube, it only takes a second for him to get into trashing immigrants, Indigenous people, women, trans folks, queer folks.'

A post-mortem examination has now determined that the 72-year-old died as a result of blunt force traumatic injuries after falling from a 'height,' the report stated.

"Shocked that of all places to break into to steal items, it would be of a free store that's serving families in poverty," said Shannon Christensen, CEO and founder.

If approved, the land swap between the city and a development company would see a portion of the Kelowna Springs Golf Course on Penno Road industrialized.

“400 police files, I don’t know what the number is where it gets to the point where it’s serious enough that they are going to deal with it properly,” Dyas added.

'I was very scared. I thought I was gonna die when I saw the knife,' Kelowna cab driver Jarmanpreet Singh said on Sept. 3, 2025.

At stake is the future of Kelowna Springs Golf Course on Penno Road, which sits on land owned by Delcini Development Corp.

A Kelowna man has been ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for flying a drone near the fire-ravaged Okanagan Lake Resort during the McDougall Creek wildfire in 2023.

Rising costs have forced Kelowna's Paws It Forward animal rescue to pause in-takes. It's now seeking donations and volunteers to foster animals in need while it regroups.

Under the new measures,  contractors who erect, dismantle, maintain or repair cranes will now have to be licensed and obtain a permit ahead of any crane work.

Moreno Scatozza lives near the base of Knox Mountain in downtown's north end, where he says break-ins and thefts have become rampant in recent months.

'My wife woke me up and the whole street was covered in cop cars all over the place. They did have their guns drawn,' said neighbour Martin Stairs.