News Items tag as: PNNOV2017

Penticton's Christmas light tour 2017
December 18, 2017 - 3:30 PM

PENTICTON - With help from readers like you, we are once again going to create the season's best map of Penticton Christmas lights.
As many as 400 people will be caught drinking and driving in the Southern Interior next month, stats show
November 30, 2017 - 8:00 PM

With so many safe ride home options available in the Southern Interior, there's no reason to drink and drive this holiday season, but yet every year drivers seem to find a way to hand over their licences.
Penticton RCMP confirm identify of pilot, passenger in missing aircraft
November 30, 2017 - 4:48 PM

PENTICTON - Penticton RCMP are continuing to lend assistance in the search for a private plane reported missing after taking off from Penticton Regional Airport last Saturday.
Prolific Penticton criminal sentenced for break-in, violating court orders
November 30, 2017 - 4:32 PM

PENTICTON - A Penticton man was sentenced to over two years in jail in Penticton court today, but with time served, he avoids time in a federal institution.
South Okanagan transit service boosted for December shopping
November 30, 2017 - 2:30 PM

PENTICTON - More trips to the mall in Penticton are being added to the South Okanagan bus schedule just in time for Christmas shopping.
A mixed bag of weather in the Okanagan this weekend
November 30, 2017 - 11:31 AM

OKANAGAN - Just about every type of weather can expected in the Okanagan this weekend as temperatures remain a few degrees above normal for this time of year.
Hopes for an early start to South Okanagan ski season scuttled by weather change
November 30, 2017 - 7:00 AM

PENTICTON - What looked like the potential for an early start to winter on the ski hills has melted away following a change in the weather since the beginning of November.
Appreciation for quality and demand for Okanagan wine driving vineyard purchases
November 30, 2017 - 6:00 AM
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PENTICTON - A Naramata-based, family-owned winery that has received accolades for its wine is the latest of several wineries in the Okanagan to change hands this year.
Penticton firefighters respond to microwave fire, gas line rupture
November 29, 2017 - 9:58 AM

PENTICTON - A fire in a microwave that spread to the home has displaced a Penticton resident for a few days.
Empty mailboxes daily through the holidays, police urge
November 28, 2017 - 7:30 PM

PENTICTON - Recent break ins to condominium storage lockers and mail boxes have police issuing a caution to residents as Christmas approaches.
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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

News Items tag as: PNNOV2017

Penticton's Christmas light tour 2017

As many as 400 people will be caught drinking and driving in the Southern Interior next month, stats show

Penticton RCMP confirm identify of pilot, passenger in missing aircraft

Prolific Penticton criminal sentenced for break-in, violating court orders

South Okanagan transit service boosted for December shopping

A mixed bag of weather in the Okanagan this weekend

Hopes for an early start to South Okanagan ski season scuttled by weather change

Appreciation for quality and demand for Okanagan wine driving vineyard purchases

Penticton firefighters respond to microwave fire, gas line rupture

Empty mailboxes daily through the holidays, police urge

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