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Operators of the Liquid Zoo, a Kelowna strip club, want to stay open an extra hour each night.“We are confirming that an extension of operating hours until 3 a.m. would not impact the community in a negative way,&r

An estimated 12,536 more people lived in the Thompson-Okanagan region in 2022 versus 2021, according to the most recent Government of B.C. population estimates.The estimated total population for the region is 631,367, wh

It all started in 2017 when Sheereen Price and Gabrielle Mustapich were sitting on a Vancouver beach.“We were having a popsicle and thought: ‘Wouldn’t it be a great idea if it was boozy?’” P

Kamloops has the third highest tax rate of the 26 largest cities in B.C.The four most populous cities in the Okanagan rank from sixth to eleventh place on that list.Does that really mean Kamloops taxpayers are all that h

It will take years to redevelop the Green Bay Mobile Park in West Kelowna if a developer buys it and wants to redevelop the site.If that happens, another 38 affordable housing units will disappear from the Central Okanag

Four parcels of land next to Kelowna’s Gospel Mission homeless shelter are for sale for almost $16 million.The four parcels include an office building and parking lots.“Exceptionally rare opportunity to acqui

Not only did real estate sales take a hammering in January compared to a year ago, the benchmark price for a single-family house fell to less than $1 million in Kelowna for the first time since December 2021.That typical

An application for a liquor manufacturing licence by Buffalo Rouge Brewing Co. could expand Kelowna’s North End brewery district further east.The brewery district is centred around Richter Street and Vaughn Avenue

The City of Kelowna can’t say, or won’t say, how much it spends each year dealing with homelessness within city boundaries.After repeated efforts to get those figures, the City told iNFOnews.ca in an email, t

Better transit is seen as a key response to booming populations instead of building more or bigger roads to make room for more polluting cars but that comes with huge price tags including more than $100 million for a new