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The city activated a warming tent set up at the rail trail, as well as warming buses stationed throughout Kelowna.

The warming tent can accommodate up to 50 people and is a level two in the city's cold weather response strategy.

The measures will be activated based on the severity of the weather conditions, with three levels designed to offer increasing levels of support.

Helen's Acres is a working farm, run by a small group of paid employees who lead an coordinate community volunteers from spring to fall.

The additional stream of revenue has allowed the Gospel Mission to hire some of its own shelter residents to be hired to work in the food truck.

Rex Edward Gill, 41, was standing outside the Comfort Inn & Suites Hotel in Kamloops, B.C., on the morning of Jan. 23, 2019, when he was shot while having a smoke.

Kelowna Gospel Mission staff and volunteers busily accepted warm clothing, such as toques, gloves and socks, on Saturday for the homeless population.

The three Kelowna Secondary students were in a Honda Civic sedan that RCMP say hit a utility pole in the city just after midnight Wednesday.

The Kelowna Gospel Mission held its annual Christmas dinner Saturday and it’s an occasion that some people would not get to enjoy if it weren’t for the organization.

<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Participants took to the streets Saturday night as part of the second annual Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser organized by the 30K Club at Kelowna’s Gospel Mission.</span>

Disposable cameras were handed out at the Kelowna Gospel Mission Friday morning as part of the Doors of Hope campaign.

Questions are being raised about whether a Supreme Court ruling in Abbotsford could open up the doors for homeless camps to pop up in Okanagan Parks.

A collection of Canadian fashion and beauty companies are stepping up to shrink down the adverse effects caused by COVID-19, Meera Estrada says.

This Thanksgiving the need is even greater in Kelowna with homeless numbers in the city reaching staggering highs.

It was all hustle and bustle at the Kelowna Gospel Mission on Saturday as staff and volunteers prepared a Christmas feast for up to 700 people.

The winners of the 42nd annual Civic and Community Awards were announced Wednesday evening at the awards gala held at the Kelowna Community Theatre.

Kelowna's Gospel Mission accepted donations of turkeys and cash on Saturday in their annual Thanksgiving turkey drive.

Most Kelowna residents have the luxury of staying indoors while a blanket of smoke sits over the valley, but Kelowna's homeless population does not.

After weeks of preparation, dozens of volunteers gather to serve residents in need at the Kelowna Gospel Mission.

If it wasn’t the largest blanket fort Kelowna had ever seen, it was certainly the most philanthropic. Over 780 blankets, donated largely by school children, were hung by scaffolding in the City Furniture & Appliance Parking lot on June 20. All of them will be donated to the Kelowna Gospel Mission, who will use the...