News Items tag as: PNJUL2017

Motorists put out roadside fire on Highway 3A
August 02, 2017 - 3:00 PM

PENTICTON - It doesn’t take much to start a wildfire these days.
Drowning death in Oliver's Tuc-El-Nuit Lake
August 02, 2017 - 1:32 PM

OLIVER - Oliver police report the death of a man by drowning in Tuc-El-Nuit Lake in Oliver yesterday.
RCMP investigating interrupted Penticton thefts
August 02, 2017 - 10:18 AM

PENTICTON - Penticton RCMP are investigating several thefts that took place last week in the city.
Princeton wildfire suppression efforts winding down
July 31, 2017 - 9:00 PM

PRINCETON - Continuing progress is being made on the Princeton wildfire, which is no longer considered a major threat.
Pot-smoking prohibited driver gets three months
July 31, 2017 - 5:43 PM

PENTICTON - A South Okanagan man’s failure to stay out of the driver’s seat will cost him a three-month intermittent jail sentence.
Modular home burns in Osoyoos orchard
July 31, 2017 - 3:21 PM

OSOYOOS - Osoyoos firefighters battled a modular home fire on the weekend.
Health issues threaten to delay dangerous offender hearing for Teneycke
July 31, 2017 - 12:08 PM

PENTICTON - The dangerous offender hearing for Ronald Teneycke resumed in Penticton court this morning after being adjourned in May due to a lack of continuous courtroom time.
No break from the heat for the Okanagan this week
July 31, 2017 - 10:10 AM

OKANAGAN - Local smoke is going to start the week off, however the hot and sunny weather is expected to continue in the Okanagan.
Looking for a forever home; Penticton SPCA pet of the week
July 30, 2017 - 2:30 PM

PENTICTON - Tickle, a guinea pig, was born into the Kamloops shelter.
Smoke from a Washington fire has travelled to Southern B.C.
July 30, 2017 - 12:31 PM

KAMLOOPS - Another smokey day in B.C is the result of a large fire in Washington State.
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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

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

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