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The fact that about 150 people are sleeping rough in Kelowna these days is no surprise to Journey Home or other agencies in the city focused on helping the homeless.With the high rate of inflation this year and skyrocket

An Okanagan College project that started rescuing apples that didn’t make the grocery store grade in 2018 was one of the top four finishers at the Enactus World Cup in Puerto Rico.The student-run business takes app

As November arrives, accompanied by sub-zero overnight temperatures later this week, emergency winter shelters normally start opening their doors.That’s not likely to happen in Kelowna this year with more than 100

The City of Kelowna has two projects in the works that define what they originally meant by the Okanagan Rail Trail being a “multi-modal corridor.”In the early heady days of buying and transforming the old CN

The contract with First Transit to operate the Central Okanagan transit system is in the last year of its nine-year term.It also comes at time when French-based multi-national Transdev has announced it is buying Swedish-

Three single-family lots that were bought last year for $9.5 million could be developed into 86 homes and 3,711 square feet of commercial space.The three lots are from 3061 to 3095 Abbott Street north of Cedar Avenue.On

Uber wants to load up on drivers in the hopes it can make a fast launch of its rideshare in Kelowna.“It’s going to depend on how many drivers we have,” Keerthana Rang, Uber’s corporate communicati

A 40-storey tower proposed for downtown Kelowna is the start of the redevelopment of the old McDonald’s restaurant and Husky Gas station sites across Harvey Avenue from each other near the Bennett Bridge“The

As expected, the Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate by another 0.5% today, Oct. 26, and it's expected to further slow local real estate markets.“With every increase comes more doom and gloom,” Te

A West Kelowna business owner is one of many frustrated by the increasing congestion on the Bennett Bridge and the highway leading to it.“It’s a service industry so we go back and forth across the bridge betw