
Kelowna News Today & Local Updates

B.C. strata ordered to pay back $19,000 worth of mask fines: tribunal
A B.C. strata that dished out $19,000 of fines for not wearing masks when in…

Vernon looks for regulations after Airbnb ‘party house’ fined $15K
The City of Vernon has banned a property owner from renting their "party house" as…

Yes then no: Kelowna couple lose legal fight with strata over sunshade
A Kelowna couple will have to live with the hot Okanagan sun baking their patio…

YO MAMA: My mad scientist toddler
A Toddler’s Investigation of a Puddle Using the Scientific Method Observation My one-year-old son toddles…

Okanagan luxury home buyers taking a breather amid inflation, rising interest rates
While the ultra-rich really don’t care what interest rates are doing when it comes to…

Penticton growing twice as fast as predictions
The population of Penticton has been growing twice as fast as planners anticipated six years…

GENERATION RENT: 9 million Canadians have given up on homeownership
With housing affordability at its lowest level in more than 30 years, almost one-third of…

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

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…

