News Items tag as: PNMAY0815

Councillor objects to amended purchasing policy
May 08, 2015 - 4:32 PM

PENTICTON - One city councillor isn’t happy about amendments made to Penticton’s purchasing policy approved earlier this week.
PNE prize home made in Okanagan Falls
May 08, 2015 - 1:33 PM

PENTICTON - An Okanagan Falls modular home manufacturer will get some serious advertising exposure when the Pacific National Exhibition opens this year in Vancouver.
Anti-graffiti strategy attracting attention beyond Penticton boundaries
May 08, 2015 - 1:02 PM

PENTICTON - If you’re seeing less graffiti in Penticton’s downtown core these days, you're not alone.
B.C. health authority apologizes for 'detaining' woman for over two years
May 08, 2015 - 12:56 PM

VICTORIA - A British Columbia man's claim that his wife was held hostage in a care facility has prompted a stinging report from the office of the province's ombudsperson and an apology from a health authority.
Summer watering restrictions likely as province records average lowest snowpack levels in 31 years
May 08, 2015 - 11:33 AM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - The lastest snowpack measurements from the provincial government’s river forecast centre are showing record low levels in some areas including the Okanagan and Similkameen regions.
VIDEO: Local RC pilots strut their stuff
May 08, 2015 - 8:39 AM

KELOWNA - While most people would have a hard time simply flying and landing a radio controlled airplane, some locals have put together a video showing what's possible when a skilled set of hands are behind the stick.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
OPINION Maybe everyone has that drawer, you know, the one where you stick things because you don’t know where else to put it. I hope - for your sake - you don’t have what I have, multiple drawers. I

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

News Items tag as: PNMAY0815

Councillor objects to amended purchasing policy

PNE prize home made in Okanagan Falls

Anti-graffiti strategy attracting attention beyond Penticton boundaries

B.C. health authority apologizes for 'detaining' woman for over two years

Summer watering restrictions likely as province records average lowest snowpack levels in 31 years

VIDEO: Local RC pilots strut their stuff

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