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New web show lets you sip and learn about Okanagan wine in your slippers
October 10, 2015 - 6:35 PM

SUMMERLAND – Looking for an alternative to stuffy shows that teach you about the Okanagan’s favourite beverage?
Restoration efforts underway following downtown Penticton fire
October 10, 2015 - 4:35 PM

PENTICTON - The owner of a downtown Penticton building damaged by fire last week says it will not have to be torn down.
Dying Nsyilxcn language given new life in classroom
October 10, 2015 - 2:26 PM

OKANAGAN - Reviving an endangered language is a daunting task but Syilx Language House is going to try to do just that with Nsyilxcn, the Okanagan language.
UPDATE: Penticton car crash victim dies in hospital
October 10, 2015 - 2:01 PM

PENTICTON - One of the two people seriously injured following a head-on crash in Penticton last night has died in hospital.
Gap between rich and poor getting wider in South Okanagan-Similkameen: Vital Signs report
October 10, 2015 - 1:00 PM

PENTICTON - The third annual Vital Signs report has given the South Okanagan-Similkameen failing grades when it comes to jobs, affordable housing and the gap between the rich and poor.
Injured hunter rescued by helicopter near Keremeos
October 10, 2015 - 9:26 AM

PENTICTON – A hunter with a serious cut was rescued by Penticton Search and Rescue team and a B.C. Ambulance helicopter yesterday.
Everything you need to know about quail in the Southern Interior
October 09, 2015 - 4:33 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - If you ever walk into the middle of a covey of California quail, you will know it instantly by the avian explosion that goes off all around you.
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$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: PNOCT1015

New web show lets you sip and learn about Okanagan wine in your slippers

Restoration efforts underway following downtown Penticton fire

Dying Nsyilxcn language given new life in classroom

UPDATE: Penticton car crash victim dies in hospital

Gap between rich and poor getting wider in South Okanagan-Similkameen: Vital Signs report

Injured hunter rescued by helicopter near Keremeos

Everything you need to know about quail in the Southern Interior

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