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iN PHOTOS: This is what moving day looks like at Kelowna’s tent city
July 12, 2023 - 7:00 AM

How would you like it if you were told to pack up all your worldly possessions and move them for a day every two weeks then set them all up again?
Kelowna’s new bus station to cost more than $100 million
February 06, 2023 - 6:00 AM
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Better transit is seen as a key response to booming populations instead of building more or bigger roads to make room for more polluting cars but that comes with huge price tags including more than $100 million for a new bus garage.
‘Beautiful smile, strong back’: Dedicated Falkland volunteer remembered
July 09, 2021 - 10:53 AM

A dedicated volunteer with the Shuswap Emergency Program in Falkland is being remembered.
Dealings with security guards at Kamloops homeless storage facility usually cordial
March 27, 2021 - 6:30 AM

Members of Kamloops’ homeless population say their interactions with security guards around a city storage facility for the homeless on West Victoria Street are generally cordial — though some in uniform could stand to be more considerate and personable.
Bear euthanized at Okanagan trailer park after getting into garbage
October 09, 2020 - 4:29 PM

A bear has been destroyed this week after it became accustomed to rifling through garbage in a Lake Country trailer park.
'It made my stomach turn:' Escort recalls visit to Silver Creek property
January 26, 2018 - 6:30 PM

SILVER CREEK - It was close to midnight on a rural, back country road last September when Jennifer’s driver realized where they were going — and he didn't want to go any farther.
Footprints in snow lead to stolen truck, sleds and three arrests in West Kelowna
February 10, 2016 - 1:11 PM

WEST KELOWNA - Staff at a ski club were able to follow fresh tracks in the snow which led them, and police, to thousands of dollars worth of stolen property last weekend.
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iN DISCUSSION: How we like them apples
This is where cold facts yield to the hottest of takes. Here you'll find reader responses to stories, letters to the editor and newsletter editorials, or letters to the editor for the week. They may have been edited slightly for readability.

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

Okanagan appraisal firm wins trademark dispute with rival company
An Okanagan real estate appraisal company has won the right to trademark its name despite opposition from a rival firm. According to an Aug. 6 Canadian Intellectual Property Office decision, Okanagan Appraisals had been granted the right to

Local News Penticton, South Okanagan & Similkameen Areas

iN PHOTOS: This is what moving day looks like at Kelowna’s tent city

Kelowna’s new bus station to cost more than $100 million

‘Beautiful smile, strong back’: Dedicated Falkland volunteer remembered

Dealings with security guards at Kamloops homeless storage facility usually cordial

Bear euthanized at Okanagan trailer park after getting into garbage

'It made my stomach turn:' Escort recalls visit to Silver Creek property

Footprints in snow lead to stolen truck, sleds and three arrests in West Kelowna

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