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Vernon woman dedicated to helping senior pets over the rainbow bridge
December 01, 2024 - 12:00 PM

Fostering senior dogs and cats takes a special kind of love as the animals are in their final days and a Vernon woman is doing her best to help the animals in her care feel loved.
iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
October 01, 2024 - 12:00 PM

Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the first week of October 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.
'Cowards': 82-year-old Penticton legion president, military vet assaulted
July 30, 2024 - 12:30 PM

Four “cowards” who attacked an 82-year-old man who happens to be the long-time president of the Royal Canadian Legion and a proud military veteran, remain free and have not been charged following a disgusting act of violent on Main Street just outside the main branch of the Penticton Public Library Friday night.
iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
April 30, 2024 - 12:05 PM

Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the last week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.
APRIL FOOLS: From flume transit to search and rescue cats in Kamloops, Okanagan
April 01, 2024 - 11:45 AM

Here are a handful of our favourite April Fool's Day posts from around the Okanagan.
Penticton swimmer training hard for upcoming Olympic trials
January 04, 2024 - 7:00 PM

A 15-year-old Penticton competitive swimmer is heading to the Olympic trials.
iN PHOTOS: First of two WW2 aircraft lands in Penticton
July 19, 2023 - 5:00 PM

The first of two of the world’s rarest historic military aircraft still flying touched down at the Penticton Regional Airport earlier this week.
Kelowna vet clinic seeing high number of rattlesnake bites this spring
May 31, 2023 - 6:00 AM

A Kelowna veterinary clinic says pets bitten by rattlesnakes are up this month and is warning owners to be careful.
Injured trumpeter swan rescued near Penticton
May 24, 2023 - 7:00 AM

A Penticton resident came across something unusual on a road in the Apex Mountain Resort area last last week, an injured trumpeter swan.
Canada goose found in Vernon stuck with a hunting arrow
April 25, 2023 - 1:12 PM

A Canada goose was found with a hunting arrow embedded in its body near the Creekside Village senior’s complex in Vernon.
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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 first week of April 2025. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones

No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
A Kelowna brewery successfully avoided a fine for selling beer to an undercover minor, but it did fire the employee. The province's liquor regulator decided against handing down a $7,000 fine after an 18-year-old bought a six-pack from

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

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way for development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

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