Rob Munro

How a $500 tax break gets rental housing built in Kelowna
It doesn’t seem like a lot on a multi-million dollar project but $500 per unit…

Domes and diversity keep West Kelowna winery busy during industry’s dark days
Just because a quarter of the Okanagan wineries are up for sale doesn’t mean it’s…

Horses: An industrial revolution for Thompson-Okanagan First Nations
Mechanization transformed the European world and launched the Industrial Revolution in the mid 1700s. At…

Freezing rain and snowfall warnings issued for Coquihalla, Kamloops
Snow along the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt is expected to turn to freezing…

Lots more snow coming to Okanagan, Kamloops
There's some light at the far end of the long winter tunnel that Kamloops and…

Snowfall warning: 10 more inches coming to Southern Interior mountain passes
Snow is forecast to continue through today, Jan. 17 into this evening, triggering an Environment…

Rowdy short-term rentals in Kelowna not going to disappear any time soon
While Kelowna city council has moved ahead with changes to its short-term rental rules that…

Frigid Arctic air delivers another blow to Okanagan wine industry
There’s a good chance that the frigid temperatures this past weekend were even more harmful…

iN VIDEO: Nearly 25% of Okanagan wineries are listed for sale
Devastating winter vine kills are just part of the reason why more than 50 wineries…

Average rent in Kelowna declined in 2023 but still very expensive
While the average rent charged across Canada went up by 8.6% in 2023, rent for…

Why Okanagan Lake doesn’t freeze anymore
Don Knox remembers not only skating on a glassy smooth Okanagan Lake as a young…

Kamloops and Kelowna housing starts lagged behind rest of BC in 2023
Housing starts in BC were up 11% last year but they were flat in Kamloops…

Snowfall warnings issued for Southern Interior
Up to 20 cm of snow is expected to fall in mountain passes and valley…

Kamloops, Okanagan housing prices rose faster than most of BC in December
At the tail end of the worst year in a decade for home sales, activity…

BC residents not losing homes due to high mortgage interest rates, yet
There's been plenty of fear recently about people losing their homes because they can’t afford…