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The Trews to perform at Penticton Vees Remembrance Day game
November 04, 2016 - 1:02 PM

PENTICTON - This Remembrance Day, Canadian rockers The Trews will hit the ice at the South Okanagan Events Centre right before the Penticton Vees play host to the Vernon Vipers.
Adventures in Penticton commercial air service
November 01, 2016 - 9:00 PM

PENTICTON - Sight line issues at Penticton Regional Airport are keeping away nighttime flights for safety reasons but if that’s all the drama the airstrip musters, we can consider ourselves lucky.
No jail time for young offender involved in South Okanagan break and enter
October 31, 2016 - 6:30 PM

PENTICTON - A former Okanagan Falls youth will not go to jail for his role in a break in at a modular home park in Okanagan Falls earlier this year.
Safety issue cancels night flights at Penticton Regional Airport
October 31, 2016 - 1:08 PM

PENTICTON - Safety concerns about nighttime flying into Penticton Regional Airport has impacted flights into and out of the city.
Alternative Skaha Lake Park development proposal planned for public meeting
October 31, 2016 - 12:32 PM

PENTICTON - The public will get a look at a new proposal from the developer trying to build a controversial waterpark on Skaha Lake in Penticton at tomorrow's city council meeting.
A wet night for trick or treating in the Okanagan
October 31, 2016 - 11:37 AM

OKANAGAN - Waterproof costumes are a good idea for the trick or treaters tonight as Environment Canada forecasts a rainy Halloween.
RCMP not to blame for death of suspect who shot Golden Mountie: Police watchdog
October 31, 2016 - 10:45 AM

REVELSTOKE - The suspect who led police on a manhunt after shooting a Mountie near Golden died from head trauma and RCMP action or inaction was not to blame, B.C.'s police watchdog says.
Business break-ins in Penticton keep RCMP busy
October 29, 2016 - 4:30 PM

PENTICTON - Penticton RCMP are investigating several commercial break and enters that took place in the city last week.
Why all those discarded needles are signs of progress for HIV, Hep C in Southern Interior
October 28, 2016 - 8:00 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Nearly 400 new Hepatitis C cases and as many as 15 HIV cases were recorded by Interior Health last year, and most were caused by injection drug use.
Things don't go better with coke; Summerland man sentenced for cocaine possession
October 28, 2016 - 5:30 PM

PENTICTON - Describing a Summerland arborist-in-training's addiction as a "recipe for disaster," a Penticton judge handed the man a 30-day intermittent jail sentence earlier this week.
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JONESIE: The lessons of free-range children long forgotten
OPINION When we were kids, we knew every inch of our neighbourhood. We ran around town till ten minutes before mom got home, which on weekends was often 2 a.m. Bad news for us when she got home early. We knew every vacant lot,

MATCHMAKING SERVICE: Young Agrarians hook up wannabe farmers with land in Okanagan
An organization that matches young, aspiring farmers to landholders has noticed fewer people are investing in orchards and vineyards in the Okanagan following the industry’s challenges this year. Young Agrarians is a national organiza

Growers and processors selected through a lottery for Kentucky's start-up medical cannabis program
Kentucky's start-up medical cannabis program should be positioned to ramp up quickly, but having products available for some patients at the outset will be a challenge, Gov. Andy Beshear says. Beshear's administration took a big ste

Kelowna trailer park residents face 'demoviction' from their affordable homes
Walking into Central Mobile Home Park in Kelowna you see well kept yards, towering evergreen trees, people walking their dogs and chatting with neighbours. The community of mostly seniors is slated to razed to make space for redevelopment but the

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