News Items tag as: Penticton Search and Rescue 2020

Phone app helps rescuers find injured hiker near Penticton
November 24, 2020 - 11:16 AM

Members of Penticton Search and Rescue and the Penticton Fire Department came to the rescue of an injured hiker earlier this week.
Penticton search crews answer flurry of calls over long weekend
September 08, 2020 - 2:35 PM

Volunteers with Penticton search and rescue were kept busy over the Labour Day long weekend responding to five rescues.
Hiker rescued from Peachland's Pincushion Mountain
August 28, 2020 - 4:51 PM

Penticton Search and Rescue were called to rescue a woman hiking on Pincushion Mountain near Peachland this afternoon.
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Kelowna winery says accountant took almost a half-million dollars
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No weed, just beer: Bavaria bans smoking cannabis at Oktoberfest and beer gardens
BERLIN (AP) — You can get drunk at Bavaria's world-famous Oktoberfest, but don't get high. The southern German state will ban smoking cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens, and even at the Oktoberfest, the world

B.C. home sales slide almost 10 per cent in March despite mortgage rate drop
VANCOUVER - Home sales in British Columbia fell by almost 10 per cent in March compared with the same period last year, in a slowdown an analyst says could be buyers waiting for lower interest rates. The B.C. Real Estate Association says th

Phone app helps rescuers find injured hiker near Penticton