Shannon Quesnel

PENTICTON - The Penticton Safety Village is in trouble and the Penticton Fire Department needs help to save it. The village is a mock set of streets, buildings and road signs used to teach children rules of the road, bicycle safety, fire hazards and home fire escapes. Located on 490 Edmonton Ave., the village is...

NARAMATA - Selling T-shirts commemorating the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park fire for charity brought back memories for the Naramata Volunteer Fire Department. Acting fire chief Tony Trovao was at last Saturday's Downtown Penticton Market selling the black and green T-shirts and sharing stories with visitors. One was an Australian firefighter who was in town to...

PENTICTON - Okanagan Falls and Penticton were covered in swimmers, joggers and cyclists for the inaugural Challenge Penticton triathlon Sunday. Jeffrey Symonds of Penticton placed first overall while other locals fought for some of the top places. Hundreds of volunteers and thousands of fans, friends and family members lined the streets where the races took...

PENTICTON - The Stanley Cup will be raised in the city thanks to two-time cup champion Duncan Keith. The Chicago Blackhawks defenceman and former Penticton Panther player will hoist the Stanley Cup, at Gyro Park on Saturday at 11 a.m. to celebrate Keith's 2013 Stanley Cup victory. Every member of the Chicago Blackhawks team enjoys...

PENTICTON - Two local athletes made headlines in the Challenge Penticton races on Sunday but for different reasons. Jeffrey Symonds came out on top, but Janelle Morrison didn't finish after she was involved in a "vehicle accident." Symonds took first place in the first ever Challenge Family triathlon event with a time of 8:29:57 despite...

PENTICTON - The city's downtown transforms every Saturday from a collection of retail outlets to a gathering of neighbours. Supporters hope the communal quality of the Penticton Downtown Market, as well as its size and diversity, will make it stand out in the Great Places in Canada contest, run by the Canadian Institute of Planners. The...

PENTICTON - A cannabis crusader will make his pitch about marijuana's cancer curing powers this Tuesday but another advocate expressed caution about making such claims. Rick Simpson has been advocating for cannabis and its oil as a cure for certain illnesses including different forms of cancer since 1997. He was inspired to spread his claims...

PENTICTON - Challenge Penticton brings athletes, money, activity and plenty of road closures to the community. Close to 1,300 triathlon competitors, plus their families and friends, will congregate in the city's north end especially near the Gyro Park and Lakeshore Drive area. Motorists can expect lengthy delays at the parking lot area at Gyro Park's...

PENTICTON - Candidates will seek applause first and votes second after Tuesday night's meet-the-candidates event at Penticton Lakeside Resort and Casino. Penticton's byelection is booked for Sept. 7 and there are eight people running. Former councillor Garry Litke, previous candidate Vic Powell and newcomer Brian Henningson are looking to be mayor. Kevin Andrews, Patrick Buchanan,...

PENTICTON - Council has had enough with the trash and messy appearance at 363 Churchill Ave. Photos show the front lawn creeping onto the driveway, loose boards stacked near the front window and bags of trash, a discarded vacuum cleaner and a large satellite dish in the back. The city has chased the property owner...

CANNINGS RAISED CASH IF NOT VOTES PENTICTON - Before the 2013 provincial election, the Penticton riding figured to be a tough race, and the campaign spending by the NDP and Liberals. MLA Dan Ashton slightly beat out NDP candidate Richard Cannings in both spending and votes. Ashton and his team spent $85,534 and collected 11,551...

 PENTICTON - A stolen truck led police to a Calgary man on Monday for various drug and weapon possessions. Yesterday Penticton RCMP drug task officers arrested two Calgary residents, Kid Ashley Tye Broadhead, 33, and a female, 32, in a parking lot in the 2100 block of Main Street. Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said Broadhead has...

PENTICTON - A 40-year-old welder learned his lesson for possessing child pornography, according to Provincial Court Judge Gale Sinclair, and will spend 90 days in jail to be served only on weekends. Penticton resident Jason David Anderson pled guilty on Tuesday to possession of child porn. The other three charges of accessing child porn, importing...

PENTICTON - Devastating is what Royal Canadian Branch 40 president Murray Grandy calls the theft of $2,000 from their office. The Martin Street building was broken into sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning and nearly two grand of cash from weekend events were stolen from a deposit box on the interior side of the...

PENTICTON - A taxi driver with a troubled past who admitted to having his genitals licked by a dog in a child's presence has been charged with two counts of exposing himself to children. This was part of a recorded statement made by Roy Charles O'Donaghey to an investigator with the Keremeos RCMP detachment. His...

PENTICTON - The discovery of a dead woman early Friday morning at Jubilee Motel prompted a B.C. Coroners Service investigation. Spokesperson Barb McLintock said the investigation has just begun and the service has no new details to disclose. A small memorial was set up for the woman in a fountain in the motel's courtyard. The...

PENTICTON - Penticton's graveyards are expected to get new life if council votes to spend $1.3 million on upgrades. The plan is to make Lakeview and Fairview Cemeteries, as well as proposed new sites, fit for new internments for the next 25 years. Fairview should be restored and landscaped, city staff said in a report and...

OSOYOOS - The public is being warned to be on the lookout for a dangerous pit bull that is back on the loose after being stolen yesterday from a locked animal control building. Brutus, an American pit bull Terrier, has killed one dog and attacked another. It was removed from a regional district compound in...

PENTICTON - A move to pay for Okanagan River channel clean-up survived a split vote at Thursday's regional district meeting. Penticton directors of the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen were happy to fund one-third the cost for keeping the channel clean, along with a few other directors, but there was stiff opposition from the remaining...

OLIVER - An exploding car last week has not stopped Oliver residents from their day-to-day activities. An improvised explosive device exploded beneath an unoccupied vehicle on Aug. 11 around 2 a.m. in the 600 block of Earl Crescent in Oliver. No injuries were reported. Acting mayor Maureen Doerr said residents were surprised when it happened...

PENTICTON - There are plenty of things to burn despite all the rain that came down. A temporary fire ban was just stretched to cover this weekend. No open fires will be allowed anywhere in the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen including camp fires, fireworks and burning materials in barrels. "Some people might see a...