Nicholas Johansen

1 week ago | castanet.net | Kirk Penton |Nicholas Johansen |Graeme Wood |Brenna Owen

Graeme Wood / Business in Vancouver - | Story: 544599Several maritime union leaders claim that shipping-related employers may be misusing Ottawa’s temporary foreign workers program to hire an increasing number of temporary foreign workers. The practice is resulting in wage depreciation for Canadian workers and safety issues, according to two labour leaders who spoke with BIV.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Nicholas Johansen

A Kelowna man who was behind what police described as “one of the most significant” fentanyl/carfentanil exportation enterprises in Canada has been granted full parole less than five years into his 11-year sentence. James Nelson, now 42 years old, and his common-law partner Cassie Bonthoux ran the downtown Kelowna clothing store Duke and Duchess Apparel from 2013 to 2016.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Nicholas Johansen

UPDATE: 1:43 p.m.Bernard Avenue has been reopened after fire crews briefly closed it between Pandosy and Ellis streets Sunday afternoon to extinguish a small fire in the bathroom of Subcity Donair. ORIGINAL: 1:15 p.m.Fire crews have temporally closed a section of Bernard Avenue in downtown Kelowna Sunday afternoon while they respond to a small fire in a restaurant's bathroom. Crews responded to Subcity Donair just before 1 p.m. after a fire was reportedly started in the restaurant's bathroom.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Nicholas Johansen

The body of the missing man who was believed to have been swept away in the mudslide on Westside Road earlier this month has been found in Okanagan Lake. Search and Rescue crews from across the region have been searching through the mudslide's debris and in the lake for nearly two weeks, finding a boot, truck parts, propane canisters and a hot tub cover that were all believed to have been connected to the missing man.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Nicholas Johansen

A Kelowna photographer recently took a walk down memory lane, revisiting photos he took at dozens of concerts at the old Doc Willoughby's Pub. Shane Collins was the house photographer at Doc's from 2018 to 2020, snapping photos at an estimated 50 shows over the few years before the COVID-19 pandemic brought live music to a grinding halt.