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Waterfront property in the Okanagan is at a premium these days.But $1 million to buy a 16-foot strip on Okanagan Lake?“Locals all think we’re crazy for asking for $1 million for a little sliver of land you ca

Two owners of lands just east of Kelowna are working to develop more than 1,000 acres of higher elevation cherry orchards.That will be a significant increase over the roughly 5,000 acres the Ministry of Agriculture says

Earlier this week Kelowna city council adopted a staff plan on how to spend a $26 million gift from the province with half of it going to a new recreation centre, but not everyone is on board.“Council needs a rethi

It’s not yet a flood of apple juice but Okanagan College’s Unusually Good Food Co. has a deal with Loblaws to sell its juice throughout Western Canada.The pilot project will put 19 pallets in 19 Loblaws'

Rwanda gathering of Gafcon conservatives draws 1,300 from 53 nations as Global South fellowship moves toward merger.

Finning spent many years in Vernon but closed up shop there last summer and moved to Kelowna.While the industrial equipment dealer's Kelowna branch opened in September, the official and private grand opening is

Last year’s early winter was actually a bonus for Okanagan cherry growers.Snow started falling in early November but the really cold temperatures didn’t hit until later in December when it got below -20 Celsi

The final numbers have been crunched, so Kelowna City Council is being asked, when it meets next Monday, to approve a 3.78% tax increase for this year.That’s close to the 3.8% agreed to at preliminary budget time i

Two new businesses – a craft brewery and craft coffee shop – took a chance in the last year on locating next to the Okanagan Rail Trail near its Kelowna end.They both saw the huge potential of capitalizing on

The City of Penticton’s North Gateway Plan to redevelop the area near the South Okanagan Convention Centre is less than a year old.But already, almost one third or the projected 2,200 new housing units are either u