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Another Okanagan criminal with 100 convictions released back into community
March 09, 2025 - 8:00 AM

When 41-year-old Blake Tyler Dunstall was arrested at gunpoint in the spring of 2023 he had a bayonet, a knife, two machetes and a couple of cans of bear spray in his vehicle along with 42 grams of meth.
Fundraiser underway to upgrade S.S. Sicamous in Penticton
March 08, 2025 - 8:00 AM

The people who are committed to keeping one of Penticton’s most iconic tourist attractions alive and well have announced an $80,000 fundraising project is already underway for a major capital project they hope to have completed before the 2025 tourist season gets underway.
Osoyoos Canada Day shooter sentenced to seven years in prison
March 08, 2025 - 7:00 AM

The man convicted of possessing and firing a handgun on a crowded beach at Osoyoos Lake during Canada Day celebrations in 2022 and seriously injuring a young man was sentenced to seven years in a federal penitentiary consecutive to a four-year sentence he's already serving on other gun-related convictions.
Shuswap man wanted in Penticton caught in Kamloops
March 06, 2025 - 12:04 PM

A Scotch Creek man, who was wanted out of Penticton, was caught in Tk’emlúps during a suspicious vehicle investigation earlier this week.
Avoiding American? Tips to source local produce in Kamloops, Okanagan
March 05, 2025 - 7:00 AM
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Some shoppers in Kamloops and the Okanagan are researching and sourcing Canadian products in the wake of U.S. president Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Former Rotary Club president pleads guilty to attacking wife in Keremeos home
March 04, 2025 - 6:00 PM

A former Rotary Club president has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after he attacked his wife with a serrated hunting knife at their Keremeos home last spring.
NDP select candidate to replace outgoing South Okanagan MP Richard Cannings
March 03, 2025 - 2:34 PM

With the federal election likely just around the corner, New Democratic party members in the riding of Similkameen-South Okanagan-West Kootenay picked a candidate to replace outgoing MP Richard Cannings.
Modern-day Miss Penticton about empowering young woman not walking a runway
March 01, 2025 - 6:00 AM

The modern-day Miss Penticton pageant has come a long way from its origin in 1948 and is now a development program with a focus on empowering young women.
Okanagan women's masters rink representing BC at national championship
February 28, 2025 - 7:00 PM

An Okanagan rink will be travelling to Ontario at the end of March to represent B.C., at the Canadian Masters Women’s Curling Championships.
First Nations restoring Columbia River fish access to Okanagan Lake after a century
February 27, 2025 - 7:00 PM

A coalition of First Nations and other levels of government have come together to restore fish access to Okanagan Lake after a century of restriction and habitat loss.
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American booze pulled from BC Liquor Stores available at independent outlets
Two BC Liquor Stores in Kamloops were bustling this week as employees pulled American booze off the shelves including Jack Daniel’s American bourbon whisky, Tito’s vodka from Texas and Jim Beam Kentucky bourbon. The action is in

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

'Skating on thin ice': Kelowna's housing sales well below normal
A BC real estate analysis report says Kelowna's housing market is "skating on thin ice" as February's sales were a mere fraction of what was expected. According to The Kelowna Rennie Advantage report, the jump in sales fro

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