The valley's next decade will be decided by what it builds now
Housing, water, transportation and public space are converging into one defining regional question: how should the Okanagan grow?
B.C. in Brief
Fast, consequential updates from every region of the province — with the context that turns an update into understanding.
Across the Regions
Kelowna is home base. The reporting map spans the Interior, Lower Mainland, Island, North and every community between them.
Okanagan
The regional stories that disappear when every issue is treated as local
A new reporting desk follows the shared systems connecting communities from Vernon to Osoyoos.
BC News
Where infrastructure and community planning meet
A dispatch from the province's fastest-changing resource corridor.
Housing
Housing pressure reaches beyond the biggest cities
Why mid-sized Island communities are asking different questions about supply.
Politics & Public Life
Institutions, decisions, money and power — reported for readers who want to know how British Columbia actually works.
Okanagan Life
Food, wine, art, water, outdoors and the people shaping the cultural life of the valley.
The growers adapting tradition to a changing valley
A seasonal series from orchards, vineyards and farms across the Okanagan.
Learning to see Okanagan Lake as shared infrastructure
An essay on the body of water that is reservoir, highway, habitat, backyard and myth at once.
Inside the studios building a new Interior aesthetic
A photo essay from the workshops where the region is deciding what it looks like.
The Morning Current
Start with the province in focus.
A concise weekday briefing from Kelowna and across British Columbia — what happened, why it matters, and what to watch next.