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B.C. Housing often spends three or four times the assessed value when it buys old motels and apartment buildings, like it did recently in Kamloops.Earlier this month it spent three times the assessed value for the fire-d

A proposed six-story, 171-unit apartment building could change the look of Harvey Avenue near downtown Kelowna.An application was posted on the City of Kelowna’s website today, April 14, that asks to consolidate si

More than half the grapes grown in the Okanagan may be lost this summer due to last fall’s killer frosts.While that’s tough on the growers, they do have crop insurance and government supports.“Growers c

The relatively stable gas prices of recent weeks seem to be ending as prices edge upwards, often by 10 cents a litre or more.While most stations in Kelowna were selling a litre of regular gas for $1.72.9 to $1.74.9 per l

Cannabis Cottage is in the heart of downtown Penticton so many of its customers are people living on the street.“We want to do, socially, what we can to support them and show them that there is reward if they do th

It’s been an unusually slow winter in the Kamloops and Okanagan real estate markets but that’s changing and there is every chance the market, and prices, are going to pick up significantly.After a couple of y

Hexagon Purus announced today the grand opening of its zero-emission heavy-duty truck plant.The opening is slated for April 19 but details of the announcement are light until then.“The plant does EV battery assembl

Five vehicles were damaged by fire behind Kelowna’s Volvo dealership last night.Kelowna Fire Department received a call at around 10:20 p.m. yesterday, April 11, about a fire in the 800 block of Finns Road.The firs

The proposed Settled Kettle tea house off Boucherie Road in West Kelowna hopes to offer Tipsy Sipsy, Tee Time-Tea Time and other options to the city’s popular Wine Trail.It still has many hoops to go through before

Five vehicles were damaged by fire behind Kelowna’s Volvo dealership last night.Kelowna Fire Department received a call at around 10:20 p.m. yesterday, April 11, about a fire in the 800 block of Finns Road.The firs