
Kelowna News Today & Local Updates

How you can help celebrate Jessie Simpson’s 25th birthday
Jessie Simpson is turning 25 years old this month, and everyone is invited to attend…

9-metre-long Ogopogo garden creation entertaining summer Okanagan vacationers
A nine-metre-long Ogopogo sculpted out of plants is drawing attention from summer vacationers in Osoyoos,…

YO MAMA: Confession, I love my baby’s farts
“He just popped!” It was a phrase my husband and I probably used more than…

BOOM TOWNS: All the new housing on the horizon in Okanagan, Kamloops
While interest rate hikes have slowed the real estate boom in the Thompson-Okanagan in recent…

5 buildings up to 7 storeys and hundreds of apartments proposed for West Kelowna
A hillside just 370 metres from the Highway 97-Daimler Road intersection in West Kelowna could…

Putting interest rate hike in perspective for Thompson-Okanagan home buyers
The Bank of Canada’s 1% hike in its prime interest rate today, July 13, is…

Hand, foot and mouth disease spreading around Kamloops
A virus called hand, foot and mouth disease is making its way around Kamloops. It's…

Legal dispute over nuisance bamboo hedge costs B.C. couple $2,000
A neighbourly dispute over a bamboo hedge has cost a B.C. couple $2,000 after the…

Keeping the drop in Kamloops and Okanagan housing sales in perspective
While housing sales have dropped dramatically in Kamloops, the Okanagan and the rest of the…

Some housing prices falling in Okanagan, Kamloops
While housing prices show double digit increases in sale prices this year in the Thompson-Okanagan…

‘Wolf of Burrard Street’ property manager gets access to frozen bank accounts
A B.C. property manager fined $100,000 for working without a licence has managed to get…

Kelowna taking severe action against vacant or burned buildings
Kelowna city council is being asked to impose strict new rules on vacant or damaged…

YO MAMA: An unexpected dilemma
It began as an adorably spontaneous act of comedy and quickly became an inconvenient dilemma:…

How Kamloops, Okanagan governments raise prices of new homes
Everyone knows housing in Vancouver is some of the most expensive in the country. There…

Southern Interior home sales slump, but prices still increase
Sales of homes across the Okanagan and Kamloops saw a huge downturn in June, but…

