News Items tag as: Argo Road Maintenance

First day for new South Okanagan highways contractor
May 01, 2019 - 5:30 PM

PENTICTON - Today is the first day on the job for the province’s new road maintenance contractor in the South Okanagan.
Spanish company awarded contract for South Okanagan highway maintenance
November 15, 2018 - 4:08 PM

PENTICTON - South Okanagan highways and a portion of the Okanagan Connector will be maintained by a Spanish company as of May 2019.
South Okanagan road maintenance crews on the job around the clock this week
December 29, 2017 - 12:45 PM

PENTICTON - It’s been a difficult week for South Okanagan road crews, with more winter weather and snow on the way.
South Okanagan highway crews scramble to catch up with road maintenance
October 02, 2017 - 9:00 PM

PENTICTON - The long, hot summer has left regional highways maintenance crews scrambling to catch up before snow flies.
No matter what the winter weather it's still a battle for South Okanagan road maintenance crews
January 15, 2017 - 12:00 PM

PENTICTON - This year’s colder, drier winter weather in the South Okanagan has been both good and bad for the crews working to keep the roads and highways clear.
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THOMPSON: Is dining etiquette a thing of the past?
OPINION I read a recent article that tried to make a case for getting rid of some rules of dining etiquette. Those rules, said the writer, “are made to be broken.” The writer’s logic seems flawed, at

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

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 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

First day for new South Okanagan highways contractor