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Rent prices are slowly but steadily trending downwards in Kelowna, and the huge volume of condos might help speed up that descent into affordability.

An Okanagan real estate appraisal company has won the right to trademark its name despite opposition from a rival firm.

IKEA is going to have a location in Kelowna where customers can order furniture and plan out their living spaces.

UBC Okanagan’s new downtown campus tower was a debacle and left dozens of people without a home, now the coalition tasked with setting the situation right has left out those who were displaced.

A BC realtor has been stripped of his licence and ordered to pay $3,500 after he neglected to tell the regulator he'd been convicted for procuring a sex worker.

A BC moving company that failed to act after an employee complained they were being bullied and sexually harassed has been ordered to pay $65,000 in compensation.

Real estate sales in the Central Okanagan are still 25% below the decade average, but it was still the busiest August in four years.

A topiary artist in the South Okanagan is taking action against dogs peeing on his nine-meter-long Ogopogo sculpture made out of plants.

Kelowna and Coquitlam created similar policies to get more housing built, but each city had very different results and a new study has found out why.

A BC family who evicted their tenant and then rented out their condo on Airbnb have lost an appeal after being ordered to pay $17,000 in compensation.

A curious little community 20 kilometres into the mountains from Kamloops is entirely off-the-grid and has been the subject of ridiculous rumours.

The spokesperson for the Sage Mesa Water Users Group didn't pull any verbal punches when discussing the fear, anxiety and anger that has spread amongst 240 property owners facing massive water bills for decades as a potential $33-million debt is hanging over their collective heads to replace the dilapidated water system.

The Thompson-Okanagan region had its slowest year of population growth in more than a decade last year.

The numbers are starting to show an improvement in the rental housing situation in Kelowna, and a support service university students turn to is seeing less panic and desperation.

A housing initiative from the Splatsin First Nation that will see pre-fabricated houses built in a warehouse in Vernon has been met with ire by the Okanagan Indian Band, which takes issue that the warehouse is located on the unceded territory of the Syilx Nation.

It’s hard to believe that 265 property owners in the Sage Mesa subdivision near Penticton could be responsible for over $33 million in water system upgrades — but that’s the current reality.

If you hadn't stepped foot in Kelowna for five years, you'd likely be amazed at the number of glass towers now dotting the city's skyline.

A year into the province’s push to get cities to build more homes, Kelowna is already a year ahead.