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'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.

Kelowna RCMP Supt. Chris Goebel addressed city council on Monday, acknowledging the day-to-day realities many businesses are facing.

Despite data saying otherwise, Kelowna, B.C. business owners say break and enters, thefts and property crime are through the roof.

The 2026 budget has allocated funding for four additional RCMP officers, but according to the detachment's officer-in-charge, far more are needed to meet current policing needs.

City of Kelowna officials say the QR codes were not authorized by either the municipality or its mobile payment provider, PayByPhone.

Kelowna RCMP say they have identified individuals of interest and are continuing to investigate. Meanwhile, witnesses say they hope the incident is an isolated one.

At a news conference on Tuesday, RCMP said with Kelowna being a growing city with growing challenges, priorities have to be triaged.

The theft happened on Saturday, Jan. 31 on Kneller Road in the city's Rutland area.

BC Conservative MLA for Kelowna Centre, Kristina Loewen, spent several hours with officers between 7 and 10 p.m., a shift police described as relatively quiet.

The City of Kelowna plans to increase RCMP and bylaw patrols and is launching a program aimed at freeing up police officers, among others. But for some, it doesn’t go far enough.

The more than two-hour meeting, which brought together business owners, city officials, police, and provincial representatives, quickly revealed deep frustration in the room.

On Thursday, the City of Kelowna announced its latest response to the ongoing issues plaguing downtown: temporary overnight security patrols.

'It doesn’t take a lot of research to find out that nothing new is coming to the table,' said Todd Daniels, owner of Gallery Streetwear in downtown Kelowna.

'What am I going to do? What are the people in the disabled community going to do? How is it going to affect them?' Kent Stewart asked.

“It’s sad. You don’t want to see people on the street,” Daniels said. “I’m not against helping people in poverty, but there are definitely more people.”

'It almost feels like until a kid gets seriously injured, it’s not going to get handled the way it should be,' said a concerned Kelowna mother.

Tumbler Ridge began as a coal mining community in northeastern British Columbia in 1981 and grew steadily until the 1990s, when coal prices declined.

'We need to be able to go home at night and sleep and feel comfortable,' said a Kelowna store owner after a break-in. His online video prompted a visit from the mayor.

There is no word from police on whether this incident has any connection to a recent cull of ostriches at a farm in Edgewood, where avian flu had been detected last December.

The man accused in a high-profile killing of his estranged wife has been sentenced in a separate case of choking and uttering threats in Kelowna, B.C.