News Items tag as: PNMAY2016

SHOULDA WALKED: Why a drunk Penticton man was arrested after trying to take a safe ride home
May 31, 2016 - 9:00 PM

PENTICTON - A Penticton man who said he mistook a parked taxi for his ride home was arrested this weekend.
Multi-tasking motorist knocks over lamp post in Penticton
May 31, 2016 - 6:30 PM

PENTICTON - A Penticton motorist learned multi-tasking is not his strength after knocking over a lamp post in a car dealership lot last week.
Funding inadequate to keep schools open in Okanagan Skaha School District
May 31, 2016 - 5:00 PM

PENTICTON - Okanagan Skaha School District Superintendent Wendy Hyer says today’s funding announcement by the province will not be enough to save any schools in District 67 from closure.
Bigger fines for distracted drivers in B.C. start this week
May 31, 2016 - 4:30 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Distracted drivers across B.C. will be getting heavier fines and receive more penalty points as of tomorrow.
Funding not enough to keep Osoyoos Secondary open: trustee
May 31, 2016 - 3:15 PM

OSOYOOS - It’s too soon to say for certain what impact today’s provincial school funding announcement will have on school closures in the Okanagan Similkameen School District.
Young Penticton fraudster gets nine months
May 31, 2016 - 1:00 PM

PENTICTON - A teenage Penticton man with a lengthy criminal record will serve eight more months in jail after pleading guilty to a number of fraud charges.
One-year-old found wandering in Penticton alley
May 31, 2016 - 11:35 AM

PENTICTON - A one-year-old child found walking alone down an alley led to a frantic search for the child’s family Saturday.
Former Penticton man gets rose; still in the running on The Bachelorette
May 31, 2016 - 11:30 AM

PENTICTON - A local secondary school grad trying to win the Bachelorette's heart put aside his 'villianous' antics this week and again earned himself a rose.
Funding could help save Trout Creek, West Bench schools
May 31, 2016 - 10:27 AM

PENTICTON - The Okanagan-Skaha school district is being asked to use the $266,000 in funding announced today to help save Trout Creek Elementary and West Bench Elementary.
Cawston man avoids jail time for replica handgun incident
May 30, 2016 - 9:00 PM

PENTICTON - A man accused of brandishing a replica handgun in an unprovoked incident in Penticton has escaped jail time.
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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

News Items tag as: PNMAY2016

SHOULDA WALKED: Why a drunk Penticton man was arrested after trying to take a safe ride home

Multi-tasking motorist knocks over lamp post in Penticton

Funding inadequate to keep schools open in Okanagan Skaha School District

Bigger fines for distracted drivers in B.C. start this week

Funding not enough to keep Osoyoos Secondary open: trustee

Young Penticton fraudster gets nine months

One-year-old found wandering in Penticton alley

Former Penticton man gets rose; still in the running on The Bachelorette

Funding could help save Trout Creek, West Bench schools

Cawston man avoids jail time for replica handgun incident

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