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PENTICTON - The RCMP arrested three men on Friday but only one was charged with drug and firearm violations. The drug task force first took into custody three men in a vehicle on Eckhardt Avenue. Following this arrest police visited a residence in the Summerland Trout Creek area and busted a woman at the scene....

OKANAGAN FALLS - Cheap recycled Highway 97 bits will improve a dusty stretch in Okanagan Falls. A 1.5 kilometre road connecting the $11.7 million Okanagan Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant to Highway 97 will get paved to keep the dust down and improve access for one of the few properties along side it. "The newly created...

SUMMERLAND - A Summerland woman was killed by a motorcycle while she was out for a stroll last week. Maxine Svennes, 84, was struck by an eastbound BMW motorcycle when she tried to cross Prairie Valley Road in a marked crosswalk in the 7700 block at about 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 13. The motorcycle rider...

SUMMERLAND - No car and no funding are no problems for a Summerland squad looking to shatter the stigma of epilepsy. Teenagers Caitlin Shaw, Hayley Anderson and Dan Nixon started the Epilepsy Awareness Squad under no banner except their own. Typically, volunteers who wish to give of themselves join already established entities such as the...

PENTICTON - The city pool is looking more like a swanky deck thanks to the addition of several colourful outdoor lounging chairs. The City of Penticton recreation department has just put the finishing touches on a new outdoor patio. The project was possible through a donation from a long-time pool patron, Maureen Sewell. “The pool...

PENTICTON - It's official — mayor Garry Litke has been sworn-in along with a new and familiar Coun. Katie Robinson. Litke completed the oath of office in a small ceremony at the Pan Pacific hotel in Vancouver recently. Litke and Robinson were attending the Union of B.C.'s Municipalities annual convention along with councillors Judy Sentes,...

PENTICTON - Changing your furniture won't catch the eye of your neighbours but a new coat of paint might get them to knock on your door. That's the reaction the Penticton and Wine Country Chamber of Commerce is hoping for with its new logo and colour scheme. General manager John Devitt says the chamber is...

OLIVER - Its been several days since eight-year-old Cody O'Connor died at Canuck Place Children's Hospice but the impact from his death is still fresh in people's minds. Cody was at the hospital to be treated for burns he suffered in a devastating fire on Aug. 28. He was pulled out of a burning motor...

PENTICTON - RCMP took down a prolific offender Wednesday who was carrying an assault rifle and a pistol fitted with a silencer. Andrew Robert Hardenstine was busted on Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. when he came out of an apartment building in the 100 block of Roy Avenue carrying weapons, a sack full of ammo and a bottle...

PENTICTON - Location, location, location might be a good reminder for those looking to build a business or a home but in Penticton locations are hard to come by. While Vancouver enjoyed a bump in single housing starts in the first quarter of 2013, up 144 homes from the same period last year, Penticton's first...

PENTICTON - Completing the checklist for Penticton's summer construction season this year meant delaying a big project to protect tourism. While work crews improved road conditions and upgraded city infrastructure during this warmest time of year, city engineer Ian Chapman says they were hands-off when it came to the Okanagan Lake waterfront. From June to...

PENTICTON - The spirit of Hulkamania was running wild on Friday night at the Thrash Wrestling toss-a-thon. It was like a scene from a 1984 World Wrestling Federation event: A pony-tailed man in purple shorts was tossed around and out of the ring by a black-masked fighter, the referee was beaten with a barb-wire crutch,...

PENTICTON - Half of Sage Mesa gets to drink from their taps again as their boil water advisory is now lifted. The lower half is not so lucky. The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen has lifted the advisory for the upper zone of Sage Mesa only. Water quality results for the upper zone have met provincial...

PENTICTON - Will Jason Voorhees smash a guy with a folding chair at tonight's Friday the 13th Thrash Wrestling match? If he does he'll be up against a wrestler dressed like the Karate Kid, a guy in a leather biker coat, the world's scariest luchador, an extra from Sons of Anarchy and a man who...

PENTICTON - The search for a missing man in Okanagan Lake is now a recovery mission rather than a rescue. An Abbotsford man, 25, went missing three days ago and Penticton Search and Rescue official Dale Jorgensen says there's always hope the man will be found alive but is highly unlikely at this point. Vernon Search...

PENTICTON - How will Infotel's latest prize winners spend their loot? They'll use the $1,000 cheque to pay off a trip to Disneyland—it's like getting a free vacation. Slimline Manufacturing welder James Weir, 33 and his wife drove their six-year-old son 2,100 km to the 'happiest place on earth' recently. They came back satisfied with...

PENTICTON/SUMMERLAND - Summerland is hoping two months of free transit service will encourage riders to pony up after Dec. 31. Summerland will launch its new route to Penticton on Oct. 28 and until the end of the year it will be free of charge. The route will also include stops throughout Summerland. There will be...

PENTICTON - Residents can borrow up to $10,000 from the city to save hundreds of dollars in energy bills every year but that's only if they qualify. Energy retrofits are home upgrades designed to cut down costly utility bills. Putting in insulation, plugging air leaks and installing efficient space and water heating systems are just...

PENTICTON - "We live in a world that lies to us every single day." Song lyric? Conspiracy theorists? Nope, that was the outdoor advertisement outside Penticton's Seventh Day Adventist Church. While other churches offer simple platitudes like "Prayer That Heals" to entice potential pew-sitters, the Adventists went cerebral. Perhaps a little negative. But it worked and...

PENTICTON - A street naming is cause for celebration in Penticton. The free Front 2 Backstreet Bash will dedicate the street name change of a portion of Westminster Avenue East to Backstreet Boulevard this Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. It will also be the launch of the Penticton Creek Restoration Project. Live music and...

PENTICTON - Roughly twice the estimated amount of tailing water spilled into the Tulameen River on Aug. 24 according to a review of the incident. The tailing pond of the Basin Coal Mine, which employs about 40 people on-site, overflowed and 6,500 gallons spilled into a gulch before heading out to the Tulameen River which...