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Annual SOS Pride Fruit Float in Penticton this weekend
July 19, 2024 - 4:15 PM

The annual Pride float down the channel in Penticton goes this weekend.
Plan underway for welcome to Penticton sign in traditional syilx language
August 26, 2022 - 6:00 PM

People driving through Penticton will soon be greeted in the traditional language of the syilx people.
At 19 years old, syilx Coyote Cruises manager uplifts young leaders
August 21, 2022 - 11:04 AM

On any given summer day, you can find a seemingly-endless stream of people trickling down Coyote Cruises’s small staircase entrance into the “Penticton Channel,” eager to drift away on tubes down a lazy river.
SUMMERTIME STAPLE: You simply have to float the channel in Penticton
June 25, 2022 - 6:00 AM

Sit back and let the afternoon go while floating the seven-kilometre waterway that connects Okanagan Lake to Skaha Lake.
Penticton Peach’s change of operator draws criticism from city councillor
April 04, 2022 - 6:00 PM
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A Penticton councillor says he wished he was notified about who would be the new iconic Peach’s operator before the decision was made by city staff.
iN VIDEO: 'Absolutely disgusting': Divers shocked by litter pulled from Penticton channel
October 22, 2021 - 11:42 AM

A scuba diving team from Lake Country that hunts for trash every weekend hit the mother lode in the Okanagan River channel in Penticton.
Young people working for Coyote Cruises on Penticton channel victims of racial slurs from floaters
August 12, 2021 - 11:22 AM

Many of the staff at Coyote Cruises in Penticton are teenagers from the Penticton Indian Band, and some of those young employees were victims of racism and a physical altercation by drunken floaters going down the channel yesterday.
Penticton's river channel is the place to cool off in South Okanagan
June 27, 2021 - 7:00 AM

If the heat is getting you down and you're looking for a way to cool off, why not a refreshing float down Penticton's famous river channel?
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
January 01, 2021 - 5:30 AM

In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
Penticton creates new walking path to avoid overcrowding along Okanagan River Channel
July 30, 2020 - 6:00 PM

A new walking path leading folks to a underused parking lot has been created at the south channel exit near Skaha Lake to ease congestion problems with so many floaters on Penticton's Okanagan River Channel.
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