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iN VIDEO: Iconic Penticton sign gets fresh paint job
June 10, 2025 - 5:00 PM

The giant letters on a mountainside in Penticton that spell out the city’s name got a fresh coat of paint at the end of May.
Countdown to a 'navigable' Oyama canal begins with dredging underway
September 11, 2024 - 6:00 AM

After years of fighting through bureaucratic red tape, community organizing and raising nearly $100,000 dollars, the Oyama Canal will soon be safe for boats to pass through.
Massive joint effort needed to clean up 'historically messed up' Kelowna sawmill site
March 03, 2024 - 7:00 AM

There is no question the former Russo Sawmill site in Kelowna is one of the city’s longest standing unsightly and problem properties.
iN PHOTOS: 'Still our territory’: Annual canoe journey crosses border on Osoyoos Lake
July 06, 2023 - 2:30 PM

For the 22nd year in a row, syilx Okanagan people took a canoe journey across the invisible border between Canada and the United State” that divides their territory — challenging a colonial marker that continues to infringe upon their unceded homelands.
Penticton cop shot and killed by 'Jesse' James on Okanagan Lake more than a century ago
April 23, 2023 - 6:00 AM

The sordid story of the Okanagan’s version of Jesse James led to the shooting of a popular Penticton police officer travelling on the SS Okanagan in 1912.
Spiritualists, Japanese warlords and mispronounced words: Where the Okunaakan got its names
January 08, 2023 - 9:00 AM

When Europeans explored, then settled, much of North America they ignored the names given to creeks and lakes by the First Nation inhabitants.
Ashcroft returning to its heyday as a major inland port
January 08, 2023 - 6:00 AM

Back in the days of the Cariboo Gold Rush, Ashcroft became a major shipping port after CP rail tracks were laid down nearby.
This boat is not abandoned in Kelowna and will be moved soon
December 21, 2022 - 7:30 AM

A large boat has been hanging around Sutherland Bay in Kelowna, apparently abandoned, for quite some time.
There was a time when it could take weeks to get from Vernon to Penticton
September 20, 2022 - 7:00 PM

On a good day it will only take a couple of hours to drive the 113-km-length (by road) of Okanagan Lake from Vernon to Penticton.
Canada’s largest marine dredging company brought thousands of invasive mussels into B.C.
July 17, 2022 - 6:02 PM

A barge from Lake Ontario containing thousands of invasive zebra mussels that was intercepted in late June on its way to work in the Lower Mainland belongs to a B.C. company that was well aware of its obligations to clean it.
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New $1.2M renovation lets beverage makers experiment in Penticton
Drink makers are going to be able to head to the newly renovated lab at Okanagan College's Penticton campus to work on innovative beverages. Okanagan College has spent $1.2 million to renovate its Beverage Technology Access Centre with

Penticton 'potio' weed lounge going strong despite stifling regulations
A cozy, clean patio with picnic tables where Penticton’s potheads can gather outside a dispensary to get stoned is a surprisingly rare space. As of February 2024 cannabis shops in BC could have outdoor lounges for people to smoke, but

Rent slowly getting cheaper in Kelowna as condo stock increases
Rent prices are slowly but steadily trending downwards in Kelowna, and the huge volume of condos might help speed up that descent into affordability. Kelowna’s average asking price to rent a one-bedroom apartment is $1,953, down 1.3 p

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