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Huge jump in Kelowna's vacancy rate a boon for new tenants
December 17, 2024 - 7:00 PM
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Kelowna’s rental apartment vacancy rate saw a huge jump in 2024, especially when compared to Kamloops.
House of Commons debate over Kelowna housing data reveals the art of the spin
November 21, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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Housing data for Kelowna sparked an exchange between a local Member of Parliament and the federal Housing Minister in the House of Commons earlier this week where statistics were given out of context.
Kelowna getting $31.5M from feds to build housing faster
October 25, 2023 - 8:45 AM
Kelowna is the first BC city to benefit from the federal government’s $4 billion Housing Accelerator Fund. It will get $31.5 million to fast track construction of an additional 950 housing units over the next three years.
Kelowna has lowest vacancy rate of any major Canadian city and that's not a good thing
February 18, 2022 - 10:56 AM
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The official Canada Mortgage and Housing rental vacancy rate shows Kelowna's fell to a 0.6% in 2021 from 2.1% the year before.
$10.8M for affordable Indigenous housing in B.C. Interior
May 04, 2021 - 10:35 AM
Three Interior Indigenous communities will have 34 new affordable housing units built with new funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Why the Okanagan housing market may fare better than other Canadian regions amid pandemic
May 31, 2020 - 7:00 AM
Despite predictions of a dramatic drop in the housing market, the new president of the Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board says this region is doing just fine.
Kamloops has a rising rental supply, says CMHC Rental Market Survey
January 15, 2020 - 6:00 PM
Kamloops renters have more to choose from and it's one of the few cities where prices have come down, according to the CMHC Rental Market Survey released Wednesday, Jan. 15.
Okanagan, Thompson and Shuswap easiest regions in B.C. to find seniors’ rental housing
May 31, 2019 - 11:47 AM
KELOWNA - While overall rental vacancy rates in cities like Kamloops and Kelowna are below two per cent, the picture is much brighter when it comes to housing for seniors.
Things are finally looking up for Kelowna renters
March 28, 2019 - 5:00 PM
KELOWNA - After years of struggling to find places to live, Kelowna renters are being offered hundreds of brand new apartments and their options seem destined to keep growing.
Slowdown in housing market projected for all of B.C.
November 07, 2018 - 11:00 AM
KELOWNA - A spike in provincial housing starts over the past couple of years is dropping off in 2018 and expected to decline even further in the next two years.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone
$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC
Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M
Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro
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Do you eat a meal in 20 minutes or less? It might be time to slow down
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March 30, 2025 9:00 PM
Calgary paleontologist part of discovery of new dinosaur with 30-centimetre claws
CALGARY - A University of Calgary paleontologist is part of a discovery of a new species of dinosaur with 30-centime
March 30, 2025 6:00 PM
Could this be the way to improve life for migrant farmworkers in Canada?
Could voluntary certification programs and consumer pressure improve
March 30, 2025 4:00 PM
How one chef in Vietnam uses fish sauce as the foundation for flavour
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The taste of banh te — a steamed rice cake with an enticing filling of mushrooms a
March 30, 2025 3:00 PM
A Venus flytrap wasp? Scientists uncover an ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched its prey
NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize
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