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Stuff to do indoors this winter in the Thompson-Okanagan
December 03, 2023 - 8:00 AM

Snow and freezing temperatures aren’t for everyone. Luckily, there’s a range of activities to take part in this winter that don’t require a thermal layer.
iN MAPS: The best festive holiday light displays in Penticton
December 02, 2023 - 6:00 AM

'Tis the season to be jolly and go for a tour around the community to take in the Christmas lights and festive decorations at these holiday houses and displays in Penticton.
iN PHOTOS: Plans coming together to give historic Kaleden Hotel a facelift
November 28, 2023 - 6:00 AM

The Regional District of Okanagan-Smilkameen is preparing to upgrade the remnants of the Kaleden Hotel to preserve its history and create more uses for the space.
Massive increases coming to taxes, utilities fees in Osoyoos
November 25, 2023 - 3:30 PM

Osoyoos pushed its infrastructure to the limit, and now taxpayers are paying the price.
Okanagan pizza restaurant, employee sued by sexually abused young employee
November 24, 2023 - 7:00 PM

A former employee of a Penticton pizza shop is taking her abuser and her former employer to court years after she was sexually exploited on the job.
Osoyoos residents are in for massive tax hikes
November 23, 2023 - 12:50 PM

Osoyoos residents are getting hit with massive tax increases, totalling more than $1,500 per year for some residents.
BC expands spec tax to include Kamloops and most of the Okanagan
November 22, 2023 - 1:19 PM
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The province's tax on housing speculators just got a massive expansion and now covers most of the Okanagan and Kamloops.
UPDATE: Work begins to stabilize rockslide threat at Penticton mobile home park
November 22, 2023 - 8:35 AM

A geotechnical assessment of an unstable slope threatening a Penticton mobile home park has been completed and work to stabilize the slope is underway.
City evacuates 25 homes at Penticton mobile home park due to potential rockslide
November 21, 2023 - 3:02 PM

The residents of 25 homes in a Penticton mobile home park were evacuated earlier today due to the threat of a rockslide.
Summerland winery group transitions to renewable natural gas
November 20, 2023 - 6:00 PM
iNwine

Okanagan’s Crush Pad Winery group have made the switch to 100% renewable natural gas.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

$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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