Have you ever gone to the grocery store for, say, milk, and left with a cartful of impulse buys? Well, I visited a couple of nurseries last week in search of one specific plant and left with nearly everything except that plant, which both retailers had sold out.
Sky watchers and photographers should have ample time and perfect weather to view June’s Strawberry moon this weekend.
Kamloops bylaw officers have been called to homeless camps more than 1,200 times within the first three months of this year. That's nearly four times as many calls from last year, according to a City staff report.
Sterling Manor in Penticton is being prepared for auction at Sotheby’s New York on June 14.
A Kamloops non-profit that helps find accommodations for homeless kids is taking added precautions after a youth in care started a fire that destroyed part of a duplex.
A Canadian company is planning to build a solar farm south of Ashcroft that could power up to 30,000 homes per year.
Over the next few years three old motels and an apartment building in Penticton are destined to be replaced with hundreds of new homes in multi-storey apartment blocks.
CKOV was the first commercial radio station in the Okanagan, hitting the airwaves on Nov. 4, 1931.
A Kelowna man who was once arrested for allegedly assaulting his common law partner has lost out in his bid to inherit all her property and money.
A Vancouver realtor has been found guilty of professional misconduct and conflict of interest after loaning a friend $50,000 to buy a property, then claiming it wasn’t a loan.
Karla Pearce sits on a chair in her small apartment suite surrounded by cupboards stuffed with art supplies and walls that are bursting with colourful art. The door to her tiny deck is open and a warm breeze blows through. A furry grey cat tiptoes around her.
Kamloops city councillor Nancy Bepple doesn’t want the province to tell the city what to do with housing.
MONTREAL - As cottage season dawns, the prospect of joint ownership with family or friends grows anew for many Canadians, budding perennially like a lakeside plant.
Every night at 7 p.m. Vernon resident Lisa Mazurek streams video on TikTok of her dog, Thor, jumping into and swimming in his very own indoor pool and it’s delighting his followers, over 65,000 of them.
A listing in Lake Country could be the most expensive piece of real estate sold in the Okanagan — if the owner gets the listing price.
A Kelowna real estate company must pay two former agents $27,500 each for defaming them and abusing the court process by suing after they left the firm.
For the first time since 2019, the cost of building a home in Canada actually fell from where it was a year ago.
Dan Winer has high praise for the efforts of City of Kelowna staff in dealing with the shortage of housing in the city.
Everyone knows the Central Okanagan has the highest housing prices in the Interior of BC. Last July, a typical home in Kelowna was assessed at $988,000 with Lake Country and West Kelowna less than $25,000 behind.
Vernon schools are struggling to recruit workers because of the housing crisis. So are other employers, such as Interior Health.
A Kelowna resident said she’s afraid after an unknown man tried to steal a bike from her ground floor apartment, despite her husband’s attempts to fend him off, and uttered threats against the family before he finally left.
Despite high interest rates, inflation, increased travel after COVID and fears of a recession, homeowners in Kelowna continue to love and build backyard swimming pools.
A BC resident who spent $43,000 on lawyers fighting her strata over an extension that was built 45 years ago, got no relief in court and will still have her fate decided by her strata council.
The speed new housing is being built in the Central Okanagan is falling short of what is needed to cope with continued, rapid population growth.
On a year-to-year basis, April housing prices have dropped by 9.4% in the Interior of BC compared to April 2022.
A Kamloops construction project hasn't seen a foundation built after more than two years of work, but nearby Pineview residents expect machinery to continue to disturb the neighbourhood this summer.
This two-storey historic hotel on the main drag of Midway is for sale for $250,000, far less than the cost of single-family homes in other areas of the province.
The City of Kelowna prides itself on being a “leader and early adopter of infill housing.”
The housing boom of 2022 has left real estate prices well below last year’s records, especially in Kamloops and the Okanagan than the rest of BC.
In 1976, Kelowna’s first 'highrise' — the 12-storey Kiwanis Tower — opened near the corner of Gordon Drive and Bernard Avenue.
Kamloops saw a dramatic $121,000 drop in the benchmark price for single-family houses in April versus March. That means the typical house sold for $635,400.
Almost a third of Canadians are having a tough time paying their mortgage, and those on a variable rate are suffering the most.
When it comes to luxury homes, Jane Hoffman Realty is in a class of its own in Kelowna.
There’s no question that the Mission Group is leading the way with highrise development in Kelowna.
Kelowna realtor Richard Deacon it trying to sell three penthouses in the One Water Street towers that, if he succeeds, will be far and away the most expensive condos ever sold in Kelowna.
A woman who lived in Kamloops for almost a decade was forced to move a province away when she couldn’t find an affordable home after the house she was renting was scheduled to be demolished to make way for development.
Waterfront property in the Okanagan is at a premium these days.
Earlier this week Kelowna city council adopted a staff plan on how to spend a $26 million gift from the province with half of it going to a new recreation centre, but not everyone is on board.
A Kamloops resident was on the way to put down her beloved pet rabbit earlier this week when she heard some noises from the pet carrier it was riding in.
A Sorrento woman is overwhelmed by the community support after she found a dog in rough shape roaming the back roads in the area.
The final numbers have been crunched, so Kelowna City Council is being asked, when it meets next Monday, to approve a 3.78% tax increase for this year.
The Ponderosa housing development with a nine-hole golf course in Peachland got first reading approval from district council this week and the proposal will go to a public information session on May 6.
A single mother in Kamloops put her toddlers in temporary foster care this past month while she lived at a shelter, unable to find affordable housing for them all.
A B.C. realtor who failed to disclose to a buyer that a condo building needed $2 million worth of maintenance has been fined $35,000.
The City of Penticton’s North Gateway Plan to redevelop the area near the South Okanagan Convention Centre is less than a year old.
B.C. Housing often spends three or four times the assessed value when it buys old motels and apartment buildings, like it did recently in Kamloops.
A proposed six-story, 171-unit apartment building could change the look of Harvey Avenue near downtown Kelowna.
A rural rights advocate is questioning why pipeline workers can live in RVs, while the Thompson Nicola Regional District restricts residents from doing the same.
It’s been an unusually slow winter in the Kamloops and Okanagan real estate markets but that’s changing and there is every chance the market, and prices, are going to pick up significantly.
A Kamloops artist and comic book fanatic self-published his first comic book called Life The Necropolis, a passion project that took a year in the making.
It has been just over a year since Lake Country couple Tamara and Josh Lawrence left a typical life on the land to live on a 600-square-foot sailboat on the Atlantic Ocean.
Dr. Kong Khoo, who came to Kelowna in 1997 to start up the cancer centre at Kelowna General Hospital, knows a lot about cancer.
Most people in Kamloops will never know them, but when people who are homeless and living on the street die, it never goes unnoticed. Other times, there's a void and when the community around the Out of the Cold shelter speaks of the loss of this man in particular, it's with sorrow.
Brittny and Scott Syme run a sheep farm in the Shuswap called Idaview Farms where they raise beef cows, a couple of goats and chickens, and 100 ewes.
The demand for luxury homes has taken off in many Canadian cities this year, compared to the last three months of 2022.
People from as far away as Kamloops are looking into the chance of getting a free house in Kelowna.
While the selling price for houses was down considerably in March from a year ago, they did increase compared to February in Kamloops and the Okanagan.
A litigious B.C. moving company has failed to explain to the small claim court why two bills it presented to a customer were "entirely different" after it tried to sue the client for an extra $1,300.
New legislation proposed by the provincial government to allow fourplexes on most single-family lots could double the value of that land, creating a windfall for homeowners but also making it even harder for renters to get into the market, an expert says.
The term 15 minute city is a concept you are likely to start hearing more about — the idea is that the basics of people’s daily needs (work, housing, food, health, education, culture and leisure) should all be within a 15-minute walk or bike ride.
A B.C. realtor is on the hook for $19,500 after the regulator fined her $250 a day for failing to submit documents for an audit on time.
Home sales are still down compared to last year, but picked up from February in Kamloops and the Okanagan.
Photographers and night sky watchers in Kamloops and the Okanagan trekked out to get photos of the full Pink Moon last night and captures didn't disappoint.
A couple of seniors in Sicamous went through weeks of stress trying to find affordable housing, fearing homelessness.
The full Moon rising tonight is often referred to as the Pink Moon but don't be surprised if it isn't pink.
New legislation proposed for this fall will allow people to build four-plexes on most single-family lots in the province.
New rules are coming that will force cities throughout B.C. to allow secondary suites in every home and four-plexes on single-family lots.
A Sorrento woman turned a sea can into an art studio on her rural lakeside property and recently opened it as a funky Airbnb.
The developer of two apartment buildings on Elliot Road is suing the City of West Kelowna for almost $300,000.
A B.C. moving company that overcharged a customer $2,300 has been ordered to pay the money back after the small claims court ruled the firm provided no evidence for why it overcharged in the first place.
A New Westminster landlord was fined $20,500 for serving, then repealing, eviction notices to tenants.
There are about 600 kilometres of asbestos concrete pipes carrying water to residents’ homes in four of the largest cities in the Thompson-Okanagan.
VANCOUVER - Home construction in British Columbia will need to rise to unprecedented levels to offset the impact of record immigration on the housing market, the B.C. Real Estate Association said in a new report on Tuesday.
An 82-unit condo project in Kamloops got approval from the City nearly two years ago. Work hasn't started yet, but now it's up for sale.
Jennifer Adams is a housing coordinator in Kamloops, and while she works every day to find affordable placements for low income families, she is often busy packing up and looking for a rental for herself and four teenaged kids.
It’s no surprise to Stephanie Gauthier that there’s an ever-increasing number of people living on the streets of Kelowna and other cities throughout B.C.
Kamloops city council is set to consider a six-storey housing development along Tranquille Road next week.
There’s nothing much more beautiful than a walk or cycle down the Okanagan Rail Trail along the shore of sparkling, multi-coloured Kalamalka Lake.
Paying more than $1 million for an older, three-bedroom, 1,148 square foot house may seem like a hefty price in any real estate market.
Almost a decade ago, a Peachland resident, wife and mother of two was in a doctor’s office receiving a life-altering, devastating diagnosis.
Retirement can be a great experience if you plan it right. And choosing the right accommodation is important when enjoying your golden years. Whether you're looking for yourself or a loved one, The Heritage Retirement Residence in West Kelowna is the perfect place to call home after retirement.
The Thompson-Okanagan doesn’t qualify as a desert but its summers are typically hot and dry so it makes no sense to decorate yards with very thirsty plants.
A cold start to the gardening season hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of people wanting to grow their own food.
A renowned artist in Kamloops is making a move to the other side of the country and is bringing all of his work to a final exhibition this spring.
A B.C. strata that delayed the approval of a resident's balcony extension for two years has been found to have treated the member "significantly unfairly" and lost a legal challenge.
The latest report from Rental.ca shows the average one-bedroom apartment in Kelowna is listed on the website for $1,967.
Real estate news these days is all about prices falling dramatically but looking at the longer-term picture, B.C. Interior home prices are up 36.7% from three years ago and 40.9% from five years ago.
An Osoyoos couple is being taken to court in an effort to get them to pay more than $8 million owing on a house assessed at only $3 million.
Kamloops hit a new record for new construction last year.
Artist Tania Hennigar spends her days confined to a wheelchair only able to move her head, wrists and hands.
After almost two hours of discussion about the dire need for affordable housing in Kelowna, city council agreed to let staff continue to study the issue some more.
Helping people avoid homelessness in the Central and North Okanagan is a prime focus of Turning Points Collaborative Society but it can’t always prevent people from having to go to emergency shelters or camp out somewhere.
A plant conservationist and professor of botany and ecology at Thompson Rivers University has published a unique book using a creative combination of art and science.
