Ben Bulmer

3 weeks ago | infotel.ca | Ben Bulmer

The Central Okanagan real estate market saw more sales last month than it had done in two years, but it still lags way behind compared to the 10-year average. According to Rennie Intelligence, the growth in sales in the Central Okanagan came from single-family homes which increased 26% compared to May 2024. Overall sales in the Central Okanagan real estate market grew by 5% with condos taking the biggest hit seeing sales slump 25%.

3 weeks ago | infotel.ca | Ben Bulmer

A few months before a 14-year-old Vernon girl jumped a one-time friend outside a house party, she turned up at Clarence Fulton Secondary School looking to fight another friend she had a beef with. The 14-year-old tracked her friend down to the bathroom and once inside the busy washroom confronted her. After a minute of talking face-to-face, the 14-year-old lunged forward punching her one-time friend hard in the face.

3 weeks ago | infotel.ca | Ben Bulmer

A Kelowna daycare on the hook $10,000 for failing to pay a former early educator, has failed in its latest attempt to overturn the ruling. According to a recently published April 9 Employment Standards Tribunal decision, Creative Advantage Childcare owner Jennifer Edge said it was "absolutely outrageous" that she'd been ordered to pay the money and wanted a three-month extension to file a second appeal.

3 weeks ago | infotel.ca | Ben Bulmer

A BC judge has ruled that the RCMP conducted a warrantless search when an officer posed as a mail carrier and delivered a package to a convicted West Kelowna drug dealer. The judge's move will likely see some of the evidence against Thomas Troy Gill tossed after he was charged with smuggling goods into Canada. Justice Edlyn Laurie ruled that Gill had a "reasonable expectation of privacy in his doorway" and police didn't have a search warrant for this purpose.

3 weeks ago | infotel.ca | Ben Bulmer

A Vernon woman who took in unwanted dogs, but then left them living in squalor without food or water, has managed to avoid getting a criminal record after pleading guilty to animal abuse. Today, June 4, at the Vernon courthouse, Sarah Kelly Hoard sat in tears as the court heard the condition her five dogs were in when the BC SPCA rescued them.